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<\/a><\/p>\nTo the Follies and beyond!\u00a0\u00a0 Tribute to the Follies (a salute to the Ziegfield Follies, the Follies Bergere, and the Palm Springs Follies), features variety performers Tony Sandler(of the popular Sandler and Young singing duo),Olate Dogs(winners of America\u2019s Got Talent), and world-champion comedy jugglers the Raspyni Brothers. Also appearing are musician-comedian Pete Barbutti, The Lindy Sisters vocal group, veteran showgirl Dorothy Kloss, and singer-dancer Ken Prescott. The Follies Dance Troupe and Follies Orchestra also perform.<\/p>\n
Four-time juggling Gold medal winners and two-time International team champions, the RASPYNI BROTHERS provides the perfect balance of comedy and coordination. Using audience participation, hilarious improvisation, and great comic dialogue, the duo has been known to launch cabbages midair with flying blow darts and blazing torches. The pair\u2019s act claimed the 2007 International Juggling Association Lifetime Award of Excellence.<\/p>\n
Also appearing is musician-comedian PETE BARBUTTI, a founding member of the musical comedy-vocal quartet The Millionaires, which toured the country for six years, settling in Chicago, then Las Vegas, where it quickly became a favorite on the Las Vegas strip. Barbutti has received numerous awards, including \u201cEntertainer of the Year\u201d honors in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, an \u201cArtistic Achievement Award\u201d from the American Federation of Musicians, and a \u201cMost Valuable Player Award\u201d from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).<\/p>\n
THE LINDY SISTERS is a retrospective 1940s trio of songstresses with three-part harmony reminiscent of The Andrew Sisters, The Kings Sisters, and The McGuire Sisters. The ensemble is \u201cconsistently first-rate!\u201d hailed The Scene publication, always displaying \u201cparticular care \u2026 to accuracy of the trademark close harmonies, attitudes, and even the bits of choreography as done in the original song presentations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Guinness Book of World Records lists DOROTHY KLOSS as \u201cthe oldest still performing showgirl in the world.\u201d As a precocious Chicago teenager, she taught a young Bob Fosse how to Tap dance, won a Tap competition herself at the renowned Miss Abbott\u2019s Dance School, and secured her own act at age 15. Kloss, who has appeared with Liberace, Mel Torme, Howard Keel, Kay Starr, and Chico Marx, has a Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We finished off our errands we could not do from yesterdays rain storm and had some time remaining.\u00a0 Sue suggested we go to “That’s Amore” which is the Italian restaurant that took over the location were Panda Palace existed!\u00a0 Turned … Continue reading