We rested a little on Tuesday morning, visited and got tickets for our first show on Wednesday. Not that active right now since is 3 weeks before Memorial Day, so it was easy to get front row seats for the outdoor drama "Shepherd of the Hills". This show is celebrating its 50th year this year. It is the longest running outdoor drama anywhere and is worth seeing.
We started the afternoon by attending the dinner show on the Shepherd of the Hills grounds at the pavilion. The "Sons of the Pioneers" show was simply great. Growing up watching Roy Rogers (who was one of the original artists when still known by the name of Leonard Slye), this was a real treat. There are 6 members of the group now and they celebrated their 75th anniversary as a group in 2007. We were served dinner at 4:15pm from the chuck wagon in the open pavilion. At 5pm the show began. At intermission I was able to get all of their autographs, finished the show and then we sat outside in the beautiful Missouri weather and waited to catch the jeep drawn tram down to the outside theater.
The show for "Shepherd of the Hills", based on a novel of the same name from 1907, began at 8:30pm. I got VIP seating on the front row and the tram delivered us right to our seats. It was a lot less walking for Pat, the stairs down from the top would have been difficult to say the least. There were up to 80 people involved in the production and plenty of mules, donkeys, horses, sheep and other varmints. Gunfights, socks blown out with a shotgun, cabin on fire to keep your mind going. We all recommend both shows highly.
I have included pictures of the night taken with my Canon digital. Flash photography was not allowed because of frightening the animals, but the settings I used worked well as long as could catch them fairly stationary.
We will rest today and will see the Titanic museum tomorrow and hopefully take in another show.
No comments:
Post a Comment