SHOWSTOPPERS! Film Screening To Celebrate Women Of TV Variety This March
March event will include screening of new PBS documentary; talkback with filmmakers, Debby Boone; display of rare memorabilia.
By: A.A. Cristi Feb. 11, 2025
The Great American Songbook Foundation is celebrating Women's History Month in March with a screening of a new PBS documentary that draws from its extensive Songbook Library & Archives.
Showstoppers! Great Women of TV Variety honors artists such as Carol Burnett, Cher, Ann-Margret, Diahann Carroll, Della Reese, Doris Day, Mitzi Gaynor, Lily Tomlin and other trailblazing icons who changed American popular culture through the network television musical variety series and specials of the 1960s and '70s. Hosted by three-time Grammy Award winner Debby Boone, the one-hour special features full-length song, dance and comedy performances as well as interviews with the stars and others involved.
The Songbook Foundation will screen the film at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 2, at the Tarkington at Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts, 3 Carter Green, Carmel. WFYI Public Media is partnering with the Foundation on the event, which is part of the WFYI Live event series. General admission tickets at $10 for adults and $5 for students are available now at TheSongbook.org/Showstoppers or by phone at (317) 843-3800. Accessible seating for groups may be reserved by phone or via email at Tickets@TheCenterPresents.org.
Following the screening, attendees can enjoy an in-person panel discussion with the film's host, Debby Boone; its Emmy-winning filmmakers, René Reyes and Shane Rosamonda; and Holly Foster Wells, granddaughter of the late Peggy Lee and president of Peggy Lee Associates, who is featured in the film. Attendees also will receive pre-recorded greetings from some exciting special guests.
In conjunction with the screening, a temporary display in the adjacent Studio Theater from 1 to 5 p.m. March 2 will feature costumes worn by stars featured in the documentary, many of them Songbook Hall of Fame members. No ticket is required to view the items, worn by artists including:
For the remainder of March, the costumes will be displayed in the Songbook Exhibit Gallery at the Palladium.
The Songbook Foundation supported the making of the documentary by providing access to its archival collections and materials of artists featured in the film, including Gaynor, Diahann Carroll, Florence Henderson and the Lennon Sisters.
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