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Showstoppers!
Great Women of TV Variety
A Polly O. Entertainment Special
Presented by
American Public Television
Celebrating Women Who Brought Joy, Laughter, And Music To TV And Made History
Featuring Performances By
(in order of appearance)
Carol Burnett, Cher, Ann-Margret, Diahann Carroll, Dinah Shore, Barbara McNair, Della Reese, Doris Day, Mitzi Gaynor, Lily Tomlin, The Lennon Sisters, Vikki Carr, Sandy Duncan,
Toni Tennille, Ella Fitzgerald, Florence Henderson, The King Sisters, Leslie Uggams,
Petula Clark and Peggy Lee
Hosted by Debby Boone
Airing on Public Television Stations Nationwide, and Streaming on the
PBS Passport App Beginning this Thanksgiving and throughout
the Holiday Season
A dazzling musical comedy salute to history-making women of 1960’s & ‘70s TV Variety featuring classic performances from Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin, Peggy Lee, Diahann Carroll, Mitzi Gaynor, Toni Tennille, Ella Fitzgerald, Ann-Margret, Vikki Carr and many more. Hosted by three-time Grammy Award winner Debby Boone.
In the 1960s and ‘70s a cavalcade of dynamic and inspiring women changed popular culture through television. They were music stars, movie stars, TV Moms and even superheroes and gold medal-winning Olympians. Every week through blockbuster TV variety shows and specials America welcomed these iconic women into their living rooms, and their hearts, to stay…
Showstoppers! Great Women of TV Variety brings that era to vivid life in a first-of-its-kind musical celebration. This joyful and dynamic special presents an all-star line-up of legendary entertainers in dazzling full-length performances, unseen for decades introduced by three-time Grammy Award winner and platinum-selling recording artist Debby Boone.
Musical variety series and specials, with their captivating blend of song, dance and comedy, were a popular television staple for more than four decades. The thrilling artistry and dynamic appeal of trailblazing women including Carol Burnett, Ann-Margret, Peggy Lee, Leslie Uggams, Mitzi Gaynor, Cher, Vikki Carr, Della Reese, Dinah Shore and more pushed the genre to its creative zenith, and their success opened the door for women to excel at the highest levels of television.
Collectively these extraordinary women reinvented a TV genre, both in front of and behind the camera, with razzle-dazzle showmanship and a dynamic creative vision that entertained tens of millions. These trailblazing icons carved their own path and made television history by expanding the world of opportunities for women in media, while setting the course for an extraordinary era in entertainment.
This one-hour special features sixteen dazzling song, dance and comedy performances as well as illuminating interviews with Mitzi Gaynor, Leslie Uggams, The Lennon Sisters, Holly Foster Wells (granddaughter of Peggy Lee and President of Peggy Lee Associates, LLC.), Della Reese, Petula Clark,
Tina Cole, and The King Sisters.
SHOWSTOPPERS! GREAT WOMEN OF TV VARIETY presented by American Public Television is a production of Polly O. Entertainment and Emmy® Award-winning writer/producers Shane Rosamonda & Rene Reyes (Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years, The Lennon Sisters: Same Song, Separate Voices) and Emmy®-nominated producer Jim Pierson (Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters, Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee).