CMU School of Drama


Friday, April 13, 2018

A visitor describes how Dolly Parton’s Stampede ditched the Civil War theme.

slate.com: You may recall that last year, I reviewed Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede, a long-running, super kitschy dinner-theater show just up the road from the country legend’s beloved Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You can read my full account of the surreal experience, but suffice it to say that its depiction of the Civil War as a “friendly” North–South “rivalry” to be reinterpreted over a heaping plate of gluttonous food came off as startlingly tone-deaf in 2017

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