Reagle’s musical revue honors veterans of all generations

It may be pop and electronic dance music that kids are listening to now, but for one weekend, Irving ­Berlin, the Andrews Sisters, and Abbott and Costello will reclaim audiences’ ears.


Reagle Music Theatre in Waltham will put on its semiannual “Remembering the ’40s” musical revue Saturday and Sunday, and never mind the dwindling numbers of the World War II veterans to whom the show is dedicated.


“It’s one of the mainstays,” said Robert Eagle, executive producer and artistic ­director of ­Reagle. The show, which started out decades ago as a dinner theater production honoring veterans of the last world war, has evolved into a beloved mainstay, drawing nostalgic audience members and their grandchildren from across the Northeast.


“That's the music I heard growing up, and I've heard people in the audience say, ‘Oh, my God, I used to hear my mother sing that all the time,’?” Eagle said.


Indeed, the show's three sections cover a range of American music popular in the 1940s, from wartime classics to Rodgers and Hammerstein to the Rexall Radio Hour. Songs like “I'll Be Seeing You,” “God Bless America,” and comic routines like “Who's on First” bring the big-band era into the 21st century.
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