

DECEASED LAWRENCE WELK CAST SERIES
Just months after the original series ended, older shows (from c. Mary Lou Metzger Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Mary Lou Metzger (born Novemin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American singer and dancer best known as a cast member on The Lawrence Welk Show. After that he agreed to pay us solo scale, 210 a week. We worked at group scale, which was 110 a week, for 10 years, Kathy Lennon recalled. The show enjoyed a 16-year network run on ABC, and later a succesful 11-year syndicated run. How much did the cast of Lawrence Welk make Welk, who paid the minimum union scale to his cast. At the end of each show, Welk would invite women from the audience on stage to dance with him as the theme, "Bubbles in the Wine" (and later, "Champagne Fanfare") played. Many of the Big Band numbers include the entire Welk Show cast. The most famous of the featured singers were the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Janet, Kathy and Peggy), who were featured most every week for 13 years. This brand new PBS Special, the 17th Lawrence Welk special to be produced for public. The performance, put on by original cast members from the popular 'Lawrence Welk' television show, will visit 23 cities during its 2003 tour. By happy coincidence, the 100th anniversary of that date will be the same night a live 'Lawrence Welk' show will be in Salt Lake City. Many of the shows revolved around a certain theme (e.g., "The Music Man" or the Fourth of July), with appropriate songs and dance numbers. Lawrence Welk was born on March 11, 1903. Most of the introductions to the performances, read stiffy by Welk, were kept short. Each program was straightforward musical numbers from Welk's band (many of which had featured solos at one point or another), as well as vocal selections and dance numbers from the show's cast. Renowned bandleader Lawrence Welk began his own variety series in 1955.
