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My Bobby- Vinton 2022 Theater Story-Branson, mo

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That Crazy Night at Bobby Vinton's Blue Velvet Theater More Great Stories here Hello everybody, thanks for visiting my blog. All my blogs are geared towards celebrating my hometown Branson. So this isn't a negative towards Branson, this is just  a story of what happened to me one night. In the 90's I was doing spotlight at the Roy Clark Celebrity theater. And I thought all spotlights were alike. A guy a new, a Texas looking guy, with a cowboy hat. Approached me about subbing for him at another theater, while he couldn't make it. He was doing spotlight, somewhere else at the time. So I agreed. I showed up at the theater and got to meet Bobby and he was fantastic. He seemed to work very well backstage, so I was pretty impressed. He was very down to earth as well. When I got up to the spotlight area, I realized I had never run these kinds of spotlights before. I had run a limousine style spotlight, which was very large and bulky. I'm even surprised tod...