If you are in the Kansas City area the next 11 days, you might consider attending “Songs of the Great War,” a production of the Musical Theater Heritage at Crown Center.  The show features 20 songs from the early 20th century, and is sponsored by the National World War I Museum and Memorial.  The show runs October 6 through 16.

More information here:  http://www.musicaltheaterheritage.com/MUSICALREVUES.html?platform=hootsuite

A possible spoiler alert–an article about the show from the Kansas City Star:  http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/performing-arts/article105715061.html

 

Blair Tarr is the Museum Curator of the Kansas State Historical Society. He oversees the three-dimensional collections of the Society, but has special interests in the Civil War, Wichita-made Valentine diners, and Leavenworth's Abernathy Furniture. In the last few years he has also done a lot of cramming on The Great War. He is a past president of the Kansas Museums Association and the Civil War Round Tables of both Kansas City and Eastern Kansas. He is currently a board member of the Heritage League of Greater Kansas City.