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The Show Must Go On EastCoast Entertainment is there to help!
The opening reception for the Virginia Society of Association Executives' annual conference was a resounding success on Wednesday May 2, 2007, due in no small part to the help of East Coast Entertainment. Hosted at the newly renovated and expanded Williamsburg Lodge and conference center, the event included fine dining, handmade gifts from Colonial Williamsburg and the Greater Williamsburg Chamber & Tourism Alliance, a birthday, screaming teenagers and a visit from the Beatleswell, that last is a stretch, but the guests thought they were seeing a reincarnation of the Fab Four from Britain in the Lodge Virginia Room.One of the country's best Beatles bands - "1964" - arrived by airplane as scheduled. Unfortunately their equipment went somewhere else. East Coast Entertainment's Sonny Morris lined up reserve equipment at the last minute, in case the band's own instruments and sound did not arrive, but the equipment did end up making it to the Lodge in time.
The conferences opening reception was planned as an outside event under a tent on the driving range at the Golden Horseshoe Green Course - but in an area experiencing a drought, a rain storm forced the staff to scramble to move the event indoors.
Colonial Williamsburg's hotel sales staff thought of every detail and hired a bunch of local teenagers - who were not alive in 1964 for the Beatles invasion - to play the part of screaming fans begging for autographs as the guests walked a red carpet leading to the Virginia Room under a British flag.
Chefs from area hotels prepared special dishes tied to the event's British theme served at buffet stations set up around the Virginia Room. As the band played, old Beatles movies played on a large screen to the side of the band performing on stage, adding to the energy of the evening.
As a special gift from Colonial Williamsburg and the Chamber, each guest received a handmade leather mug created by a craftsman from West Point, Va. The finale brought the house down, as the Beatles sang "Happy Birthday" to someone in the crowd and switched to a Beatles' favorite, "You Say It's Your Birthday," to the happy screams and stomps of an approving crowd.
Tom Spong
