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Wings & Wheels Fall Festival starts early this year with Friday night’s “Stage Door Canteen,” an evening of dinner, dancing and fabulous ‘40s music by Foot Light Productions. Organizers have already added seating to accommodate more guests, so hurry up and get tickets before they sell out.
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
1 Crooners’ cabaret
Guests at the “Stage Door Canteen” will relive the USO Canteen shows of World War II when crooners from Foot Light Productions take the stage. The group will revive songs like “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “Stardust,” “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree” and others.
It’s familiar territory for Foot Light Productions, which started 15 years ago with a tribute to the ’40s, according to Tom Sweeny, vice president. Although it was a scary time for the country, there’s something beautiful about it, Sweeny said.
“As frightening as the war should be, and was, and intimidating, there’s a nostalgia about that [time], he said.
“There’s this whole image that goes along with that period that’s very romantic, an our-love-will-last-forever type of thing.”
2 Dinner & dancing
Dinner is at 6 p.m. and is catered by Lighthouse Landing Restaurant, with the show starting at 7. Then the audience will take advantage of the cavernous hangar and hit the dance floor to music from the period.
3 Voices from the war
The evening includes a special screening of “Vanishing Voices of World War II,” a documentary by James Diehl that features veterans of the war from southern Delaware.
Wings & Wheels Fall Festival starts early this year with Friday night’s “Stage Door Canteen,” an evening of dinner, dancing and fabulous ‘40s music by Foot Light Productions. Organizers have already added seating to accommodate more guests, so hurry up and get tickets before they sell out.
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
1 Crooners’ cabaret
Guests at the “Stage Door Canteen” will relive the USO Canteen shows of World War II when crooners from Foot Light Productions take the stage. The group will revive songs like “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “Stardust,” “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree” and others.
It’s familiar territory for Foot Light Productions, which started 15 years ago with a tribute to the ’40s, according to Tom Sweeny, vice president. Although it was a scary time for the country, there’s something beautiful about it, Sweeny said.
“As frightening as the war should be, and was, and intimidating, there’s a nostalgia about that [time], he said.
“There’s this whole image that goes along with that period that’s very romantic, an our-love-will-last-forever type of thing.”
2 Dinner & dancing
Dinner is at 6 p.m. and is catered by Lighthouse Landing Restaurant, with the show starting at 7. Then the audience will take advantage of the cavernous hangar and hit the dance floor to music from the period.
3 Voices from the war
The evening includes a special screening of “Vanishing Voices of World War II,” a documentary by James Diehl that features veterans of the war from southern Delaware.
