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BRANSON MO NEWS: Steve Bergsman
On my first night in Branson, Missouri, I went to see the play “Million Dollar Quartet,” the lively musical that re-creates the time Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash gathered together at Sun Records Studio to meet, greet and heartily jam together.
This play has been so grandly greeted in Branson that it is booked at the Welk Resort Theater until 2019 — and it is the perfect play for this vacation spot in the heart of the Ozark Mountains on the Missouri border with Arkansas. As an entertainment venue Branson does a number of things very, very well. And one of those things is spotlighting tribute bands. In fact, Branson is probably the epicenter of the tribute-band business with performers imitating everyone from the Carpenters to ZZ Top and from Elvis Presley to Neil Diamond. There are so many tribute bands in Branson that I sometimes got confused and assumed there were tribute bands for tribute bands, a kind of mathematical equation of tribute bands squared.
This is not to put down “Million Dollar Quartet,” a play I wanted to see and was glad to catch, but this was theater. In fact, after the …