Leader News Services
11-02-2009
The Dixie Center for the Arts will honor veterans with its second performance of the Dixie season at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Sponsored by Kilpatrick Funeral Homes, War Bonds: The Songs and Letters of WWII is a full-length, live stage show of the broadcast now airing on public television stations across the country. Award-winning artists from EbzB Productions of North Carolina will sing wartime tunes and stir wartime memories.In War Bonds, actual veterans’ letters are used to create a sentimental journey back through the days when blackouts and rationing were a small sacrifice in order to obtain freedom — a time when “Rosie the Riveter” discovered she could take care of herself and a man’s primary wish was to be home for Christmas. This family show allows the “greatest generation” to celebrate, as the next “greatest generation” contemplates.
The War Bonds production is based on a film by UNC-TV, North Carolina’s statewide public television station that aired as a companion piece to the epic WWII documentary series The War by filmmaker Ken Burns. War Bonds is a musical cabaret that weaves together songs of WWII with humorous and poignant letters from the period.
Members of Kilpatrick Funeral Home’s staff will be at the Dixie handing out free flag pins for all who attend, and the Louisiana Military Museum invites the public to view their display of World War II weapons and uniforms.
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