2/24/2010 2nd Annual Quail Run Talent Show

The park was all abuzz today in anticipation of tonight’s event.

The 2nd Annual Quail Run Talent Show

The house was packed! This was so much fun last year and it proved to be another winner this time around,

The very first act was “The Granimals” This group consisted of Marlene, frequent readers are familiar with that name, Bonnie M. and Judy H. Let’s not forget Keith as their “prop”.

The Granimals are a singing group from back in the 60’s. Bonnie (yellow hat) was the lead singer and Judy and Marlene were her backup singers. Keith was Judy’s (leopard print) boyfriend and he was a pothead. They lip-synced to a song called “Too Much Butt” by the Uppity Blues Women. Now that you know the title of the song it should explain the picture above and the ones following.

Its a little blurry, but they were “shakin’ it” so much that I probably should have had the camera in fast action mode.

This next one is blurry for no other reason than I was laughing so hard I couldn’t keep the camera still.

Pot smokin’ Keith. his “joint” was the size of a tampon!

Can you imagine finding jeans to fit this butt?????

Judy told me later that her “butt” was plastic grocery bags, Bonnie’s was washcloths and Marlene used a pillow.

They brought the house down! A great act!

Next up was Ray. He performed a one act play about being a school teacher back in the day when it was OK for a teacher to hug a 2nd grader when they fell down on the playground, when a teacher didn’t have to worry about No Child Left Behind, when a teacher did what he was paid to do…..teach. This play was touching, amusing, endearing and Ray, a teacher for 30 years, played it from the heart.

Janet S. was supposed to yodel for us but she was home sick. However a song from her CD was played and we were all sorry that she wasn’t feeling up to par, we would have all enjoyed her act.

The Chimp and the Gimp was next! Wilf and Don brought out the harmonicas and guitar to entertain us. They sang several songs and we all enjoyed them very much. They each wrote their own lyrics to songs and had us laughing with every line.

Doing skits in between acts were The Clowns.

I don’t have a picture for the next act. I took one but I was too far away and it didn’t turn out that well. Pat W. accompanied by Arlee sang a funny song about three old ladies who all decided to use the same lavatory stall and they get locked in.

Ahhhh,,,,”Mugsy” Maguire, the wild Irish boy, was next. Frank tickled the ivories for us and sang some beautiful Irish songs. It is always a joy to listen to Frank play.

We had a session of “Musical Humor” next and once again we were rolling in the aisles. Bill Turner, along with his lovely wife Pat, and Arlee all played guitars and Bill sang songs like Kiss my……… Ex. (For those who know him, take a look at that gut! That is NOT Bill!)

One more person got into the act when Bill sang a song about rating a date he had on a scale of one to ten. Well, Deanna came out and she had her own ratings to give right back to him.

Deanna had her own idea of a “10”. When we saw the “10” on the back of his shirt I thought the roof was going to be lifted off the building with our laughter.

Oh yeah,,,,our man Dale! He’s our 10! We all just love Dale!

Another shot of Deanna. She really seemed to have fun with this.

After a fifteen minute break to stretch our legs and get our butts off those hard metal chairs, have a chance to go buy some popcorn, a soda or an ice cream float, we settled back in for the rest of the show.

The second half started out with Al Howard playing the bag pipes for us. I love the sound of bag pipes.

Suzanne, a newcomer to Quail Run, sang two country hits for us.

Take Five, the name of the next act, did a takeoff on the theme song from Green Acres. Quail Run is where she’d rather be but he wants to be back in West Virginia!

Our friend, Carol W., was accompanied by Wilf and Arlee and she sang beautifully for us. I had no clue she could sing but we found out she’s really good!

Leo played the banjo and Fran sang for us.

The finale was upon us and we didn’t have a clue as to what was going to happen when everyone in the audience was given a Baggie sandwich bag. We were further confused when a rubber boat was put on the stage. The final act was announced….welcome to the stage….Jo Ho & the Hoettes. The music started and then they entered. The audience roared. I had a hard time keeping the camera steady because I was laughing so hard.

They danced to Don Ho’s Tiny Bubbles. NONE of them are hula dancers! NONE! Not even one!

Someone even made a buck!

Oh yeah,,,the Baggies? The rubber boat was used to camouflage a bubble machine to go with the song and we were asked to catch the bubbles and put them in the Baggie so the soap could be recycled.

What a great show! So many laughs. A big THANK YOU to all the participants, you gave us a great night!