Entertainer Shoji Tabuchi brings famed Branson show to Waco Hippodrome

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Shoji Tabuchi’s fiddling and singing never put him on Nashville’s country music charts, but his love of entertaining an audience helped him build a national following from the unlikely base of Branson, Missouri.For more than three decades, the Japanese-born Tabuchi has ruled the tourist destination as the head of one of its leading music stage productions, despite rival theaters that drop such better-known names as Dolly Parton, Andy Williams, Jim Stafford and Mickey Gilley.In a city sometimes nicknamed the “Vegas of the Midwest,” Tabuchi and his theater provided plenty of Las Vegas showmanship sizzle: wide-ranging musical tastes, instrumental virtuosity, flashy costuming, humor, touches of faith and flag-waving, energy and high production values. That, and bathrooms that left visitors talking. “As famous as I was, everyone talked about our bathrooms,” he said in a recent phone interview.It’s all about entertainment for the 74-year-old performer and Waco audiences will get to experience it firsthand when Tabuchi’s touring show, which stars him and his daughter Christina Lingo-Tabuchi, stops Friday night at the Waco Hippodrome.He’ll bring a four-piece band and three singer-dancers led by Christina, with a program honed by years of Branson experience in pleasing crowds as well as Tabuchi’s own time in performing in Texas.“We play every kind of song, good old bluegrass songs and, of course, in Texas we love to do Bob Wills songs. I’m a big fan of Bob Wills and Western swing,” he said. “We have a huge block of country songs. Polka. Can you believe we do Led Zeppelin on the fiddle? Yes, ‘Kashmir.’ ”There’s also pop, patriotic, gospel, jazz and the signature of every Tabuchi performance, where he explains the difference between a violin and a fiddle. The former plays Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight …


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