The Bretts meet 3 Redneck Tenors

Friday, 23 November.  Our 10am morning show on this Black Friday shopping day showcased a family act, The Bretts at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater.  Having appeared on worldwide TV and in more than 3000 live performances around the globe, The Bretts deliver high-energy, high-caliber professional entertainment to audiences of all ages.  Voted “The Best Morning Show” in Branson, The Bretts make their daytime performance the place to be on Branson’s Country Strip. As singers, songwriters, dancers and musicians, each Brett family member has enough talent to deliver a full-length solo performance, but together they are captivating, exploding onto the stage with a constantly moving display of music, dance, lights and artistry that has inspired audiences to clap and foot-stomp for almost the entire show.  The show today was their holiday show, and they performed several wonderful renditions of traditional Christmas carols.  My favorite was their version of "Mary Did You Know" -- absolutely beautiful and very moving.  And very deserving of the standing ovation it received.  After the Haygoods, The Bretts are a very close “second” for our favorite show so far in Branson.

Our evening show today saw us attending a rather unique show, 3 Redneck Tenors Christmas SPEC-TAC-YULE-AR -- advertised as "down home laughs, big city music."   The 3 Redneck Tenors were finalists on America's Got Talent, and their show combines classic opera, backwoods humor and a corny story plot to create family-friendly, knee-slappin' entertainment. While the most of the humor was right out of the old Hee Haw TV show -- corny and bad -- the voices of these three classically-trained singers were magnificent.  The show has been called "Pavarotti with a mullet" and "singing angels in a trailer" and that pretty much summed it up.  John Wilkerson, Alex Bumpas and Mathew Lord play Billy Bob, Billy Joe, and Billy Billee from Paris, Texas.  The guys were obviously having a great time on stage and involved the audience with their corny humor as much as possible -- and it seemed to work...at least most of the time.  We really enjoyed the "holiday" portion of their show since it really highlighted the vocal ranges of their voices.  Their rendition of "O Holy Night" was one of the best I've ever heard and received a standing ovation from the audience.  I was superb - very moving!  In the end, we had a good time.  This show may not be for everyone, but they had a full house tonight.