Celebrate America
Celebrate the red, white, and blue with one of Branson’s biggest cast of singers, dancers, and performers – in Celebrate AMERICA. It’s a musical journey from America’s infancy creating heartwarming, touching, and fun-filled scenes of age and youth, wisdom and curiosity, fear and bravery.
Celebrate AMERICA! Is an original Broadway-style musical written especially for the Branson stage. It’s a beautiful way to remember our American history.
There is a cast of more than 30 singers and dancers to present the brilliantly staged and choreographed show, telling America’s tale for the Declaration Independence, Revolutionary soldiers, through all the wars this country has fought for freedom. When the show opens, you’re invited to attend a Fourth of July celebration in the town of Promise. Abigail Appleberry’s father is reporting for active duty. She doesn’t really understand and asks her Grandpa Appleberry “why”? Grandpa Appleberry’s answer to her is a look back at these United States and why “America is the land of the free because it is the home of the brave!”
Abigail and Grandpa Appleberry join some of the scenes from the past and Abigail loves singing and dancing with the railroad workers building westward. The stage at The Mansion Entertainment and Media Center (THE MANSION) is one of the biggest in Branson and the sets are quite impressive. The backdrop screen is as real as movie film. When you cruise into New York Harbor with a ship full of immigrants, you can almost feel the rocking of the waves.
Sound and lighting are state-of-the-art; great backstage and tech crews keep everything running smoothly.
The choreography is great and very inventive as you’ll experience in Rosie the Riveter with the girls up on ladders working and the construction of WW II planes…as well as the wonderful 42nd Street tap dance number. You’ll love Will Rogers and The Andrews Sisters broadcasting from the Grand Central Hall train station location.
Some numbers are just great fun; other are extraordinarily poignant – like when Civil War soldiers – some North – some South – meet up by a campfire. Will they share a Johnnycake? Other tender moments have a touch of humor, like WWI soldiers reading a letter from home.
The costumes and uniforms are exceptional, just right for every decade and event portrayed. The town of Promise has had soldiers in every conflict – from the Revolutionary War to Viet Nam. This stirring account of America’s history is told by its people and its soldiers, your soldiers! You’ll love their tale.
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