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Soloist Terry Schirok (L) and the dancers welcome 1930s humorist Will Rogers, as portrayed by Joe Silien.
Community Connect SCCL Treated to Route 66 Magical Tour
A mixed chorus opens the show with the Route 66 theme song. (Inset) Jack Haubach presents "Road Kill Cafe."
Octavia Swindell with "Dust" and (R) Tom Kelly and Mary Pascarell dance to "Blue Moon" on the newly paved Route 66.
Recently, the Performing Arts Club took theater goers on a unique tour of the fabled US Route 66 using song, dance, poetry, and historical narration. The show "moved" in several planes as it followed the route from Chicago to Los Angeles, and also in time, from the 1930s through the 1960s.
The visual aspects were also quite exciting. Now becoming a hallmark of PAC productions, a rear-projected scenery backdrop, using both still and full motion images, gave the audience a truely multimedia experience.
Route 66: A Musical Journey Along the Mother Road was written and directed by residents Deborah and Burt Routman. It was their second such production with the PAC troupe, following the
well-received Echos of War in 2016. Route 66 was a full company production with participation of nearly 100 people in the cast and crew. Pictured are a few of the "stops."
Above:Texaco men, Monacell, Brady, and Butala. (R) Sunlight, "This Land Is Your Land."