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Rave On! Living Legends Edition

Howard and Rhonda Hawks Mainstage

Here is the show you've known for all these years … but as you've never seen it before. After touring the nation for two years, Rave On! makes a triumphant return to the Omaha Community Playhouse with a once in a lifetime show. The "new" Rave On! returns with two living legends, Buddy Holly's lead guitarist Tommy Allsup, and Sonny West who  wrote and recorded "Oh, Boy" and "Rave On!"
The show features the nation's top Buddy Holly impersonator and Omaha native, Billy McGuigan (mc-wiggin) for an Omaha-only special event. Hear the music as it's never been done before plus stories behind the Buddy Holly hits from two men who were there.

A Grammy Award winner and member of the Rockabilly Hall Of Fame, Tommy Allsup has a music career spanning more than 60 years. He has played on over 100 country chart toppers and worked with artists as diverse as Buddy Holly & the Crickets, Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, Roy Orbison, George Jones, Buddy Knox, Kenny Rogers, Jan & Dean, Willie Nelson and Paul McCartney. Tommy most famously "lost" the coin flip with Ritchie Valens and gave up his seat on the airplane that took the lives of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens.

Texas native and Rockabilly Hall Of Fame member Sonny West wrote and recorded both "Oh, Boy!" and "Rave On", two of the most memorable Rock & Roll songs of the late 1950s. Bruce Springsteen has often remarked that "Rave On" is one of the greatest Rock & Roll songs of all time, and that he psyches up for live performances by singing it backstage.

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