The 50S Flame
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Women’s Health CLINIC FEBRUARY 2017 SEASON | YEAR A NEWSLETTER DEDICATED TO GROUPS, ORGANIZATIONS AND FRIENDS OF THE FIRESIDE THEATRE Back to the 50’s For Music and Fun! I WAS BORN IN 1950 SO THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF THOSE EXCITING FORMATIVE YEARS HAD A LARGE PART IN CREATING THE PERSON AND ARTIST I AM TODAY. THE 1950’S WAS A DECADE LIKE NO OTHER. THE U.S. WAS ENJOYING A BOOMING ECONOMY – THE STRONGEST IN OUR HISTORY. THE DECADE WAS FILLED WITH TURMOIL – THE KOREAN WAR AND THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. BUT IT WAS ALSO FILLED WITH FADS AND SILLINESS LIKE COONSKIN CAPS, SOCK HOPS, POODLE SKIRTS, FRISBEES, SPUD GUNS, AND HULA HOOPS. The 1950’s were also a time of great change Fats Domino, Little Richard, James Brown, in popular music. People always think of Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bobby Darin, the 50’s as the decade of rock and roll and Ritchie Valens, Connie Francis, and Ricky nothing else, and our past 50’s shows were Nelson. In the mid-50s, Elvis Presley became predominantly filled with 50’s rock. But the the leading figure of the newly popular rock & 1950’s had more different kinds of popular roll sound with a series of network television music than any other decade in history – appearances and chart-topping records. Our classic pop, jazz, folk music, doo wop, and new band show is going to include all that much more. The decade started out with such great music from the entire ten years from classic musical stars as Frank Sinatra, Tony 1950 to 1960. “Our new band show is going to Bennett, Frankie Laine, Patti Page, Rosemary include all that great music from Clooney, Dean Martin, Eddie Fisher, Dinah Don’t get me wrong. There will be plenty of the entire ten years from 1950 to Shore, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, and Nat that classic rock and roll sound that people 1960. King Cole, and vocal groups like the Mills love so much. But we will also feature the other great music of the time. We are so – Ed Flesch Brothers, The Ink Spots, The Four Lads, The Four Aces, and the Ames Brothers. blessed that Steve Watts and our great Fireside Band can play any music – any style, Then in the middle of the decade there any genre, any period – and I intend to really came a cosmic change in the popular music show them off in this show. landscape as classic pop was swept off the charts by rock-and-roll. Crooners such So come back to the fifties with us and revisit as Eddie Fisher, Perry Como, and Patti some of the greatest songs and artists ever Page, who had dominated the first half of to grace the musical scene. (Or visit them for the decade, found themselves pushed aside the first time). I can’t wait to start putting it all by a whole new crop of young singers and down on paper and then putting on our stage musicians such as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, for you to enjoy! LIFE IN DIANE GOLDENSOPH RENOVATION GARDEN THE 1950’S LEADS THE WAY IN UPDATE FRIENDS P2 P3 WAUNAKEE! P5 P7 Hospitality never goes out of style! WHERE WERE YOU IN THE 50’S? I’LL BE BOLD AND TELL YOU THEY WERE MY FIRST TEN YEARS, SO I WAS LEARNING HOW TO WALK, TALK, AND READ AND SPENT A LOT OF TIME PLAYING, NOT SO MUCH LISTENING TO THE NEW STYLE OF POPULAR MUSIC. BUT AN AWFUL LOT OF PEOPLE CERTAINLY WERE! We all know that music really and there will still be a lot of it was the first time teenagers “came of age” in the 1950’s. new material in this one. had something they felt was Right now if you Google who the theirs alone and they embraced best artists or the best songs Aside from the music, the it. This wasn’t just a musical were you’ll find a myriad of 1950’s was a decade of a revolution but a social and lists, but the most definitive list booming economy, booming generational one, bringing even we found for top artists of the suburbs, and a booming black performers mainstream 1950’s includes Elvis Presley, population. Beneath the rosy success with music fans helping Little Richard, Chuck Berry, surface, however, we faced civil to find common ground. The Buddy Holly, and Ray Charles. rights issues and a cold war. possibilities seemed endless. Certainly there’s enough talent Perhaps people looked to the Sam Phillips, best known for and popularity to go around. music to keep from thinking making a star of Elvis Presley, We’ve about more difficult things. In envisioned rock ‘n’ roll as a produced any case, the music of the 50’s path to equality and freedom. three has stood the test of time and While that goal might not yet Buddy Holly original is still among the most popular have been realized, as long as with Waylon 1950’s genres of all. Why? According the music survives, the dream Jennings and revues to Robert Palmer who wrote will live on! Tommy Allsup ourselves for Rolling Stone back in 1990, during a 1959 concert in Minnesota, plus 1950’s suburbia and social life. GROUP LEADER PROFILE “I love working with The Fireside. The customer service is wonderful, the meal is delicious, and the entertainment is always great.” –Diane Goldensoph DIANE GOLDENSOPH IS Learning from each other PROGRAM COORDINATOR FOR THE WAUNAKEE SENIOR CENTER A year into Diane Goldensoph’s marriage In addition to events held at the center, They are either more youthful or just feel her husband asked her how she felt about she runs one or two day trips each month. comfortable leading the group, and have him applying for jobs in Wisconsin. Having One is usually a casino trip to one of taken basic first aid and CPR training grown up just south of the Twin Cities, she six or so casinos around the state or so they would know what to do in an thought it would be OK, as long as it was region while the other leans more to the emergency. They shop around for the just for a year or two before they moved arts, theatre, music, or sight-seeing. That’s best motorcoach pricing but also have back to Minnesota. That was about 30 where The Fireside comes in to play. Many their favorites that they trust and prefer. years ago and here they are, still happily years their choice has been our Christmas Packaged overnight tours are offered planted in Waunakee. Her nursing home show, in fact Diane considers our 2015 through Badger and Mayflower Tours work in Minnesota led to 13 years as production of A WONDERFUL LIFE to be about four times a year. a clinic manager here until her doctors her favorite Fireside show. They’ve also retired and closed the clinic. Since she’s enjoyed LES MISERABLES, VIVA VEGAS, Diane’s philosophy of tour planning always had a soft spot for seniors, she a Christian Concert by Three Bridges, includes trying to include several trips ended up taking a “very part time” job with and most recently our smash hit MAMMA that are at a low enough price point so the fledgling Waunakee Senior Center in MIA! “It’s such a fun musical,” Diane said, anyone can participate. While a day trip 2004. As the center grew, the job grew “When we showed the movie at the center to The Fireside might be considered mid as well and Diane has been building their we got a huge crowd so I decided to give to high end for them, she’s able to mix it program into a very successful one ever it a try. When it sold out really quickly up with something like a city tour through since. my Director admitted she was surprised Madison during the holidays to enjoy the I had chosen it. Then we had to cancel lights followed by dinner back at the center. From its early days when a few people met our original date because of weather and She promotes the trips primarily through in the village library, to occupying a room in I was afraid I would lose a lot of people the center’s monthly newsletter, but uses the lower level of an apartment complex, for the rescheduled date, but all but two the quarterly village newsletter that goes the Village of Waunakee upgraded to a chose to rearrange their own schedules so to every household to reach potential new full community center with a new building they could still make it - that’s how much members. in 2006. The Senior Center is attached they wanted to see that show! It’s hard to this facility that also includes a fitness to choose sometimes, but usually I just go Diane and her husband have two grown center. They have a full time Director and with my gut and hope I’m right!” children, ages 22 and 23, and an 8-year Diane is the Program Coordinator. It’s her old who she says “will either keep us responsibility to plan both educational and Diane doesn’t always get to go along on young or age us early!” We’re betting it will entertainment events that will benefit the her trips but she has a team of volunteers keep her young, she sounds like she’s got community’s senior population.