Thank God.
That place should be a place where totally unheard of performers should be booked. Things like the East Nowhere Kansas theater group does a play or a bluegrass band that is local entertainment in Hilltop Kentucky. A New Orleans local talent jazz band hidden away in Nebraska.
NOT some big shot celebrities but little people. The people that act, sing and play music for the love of it and not some big money paycheck. The band doing the local bar circuit, the bluegrass band that meets at Gilbert's house Tuesday nights after dinner. Little guys that nobody even knows exists.
Anonymous Americans with a passion for what they do.
This country has an incredible amount of unknown home grown talent that should be surfaced.
I want to see the fat ladies with their opera glasses outraged because the evening gig is a family bluegrass band or some theater group doing a rendition of West Side Story or Mary Poppins or Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and she's sitting next to a guy in jeans and a -shirt.
Not slick, polished Hollywood type stuff, but what Americana has to offer. An awful lot of these little performances are far more entertaining than what Hollywood has to offer.
And, oh yeah. A place where anyone that goes there with ANY kind of political agenda gets thrown on on their ass and bounced down the stairs on the way out.
Never thought of it in that light, but you make a lot of sense. Well said!
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