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Oh my goodness what a great memory for me! I was on the Don Mahoney and Jeanna Claire show many many MANY times as a child. I attended the Mary Margaret Niland School of Dance, and Annette O'Toole was my jazz teachers daughter! Another star from there and on the show was Delyse Lively. She won a Tony Award for her performance in Smokey Joe's Cafe as the shimmy girl! She has an Awesome voice as well!

I would absolutely LOVE to see any of the DM&JC shows and would especially love to show my own daughter my abilities! I loved that time in my life so much, I even named my daughter after Delyse!

I am so excited to have found this forum!

I am also a native Houstonian & former student of Hallie Pritchard's dance studio. I probably ran into you out at the show at times. You know, every week was an exciting experience for me. There were many times that I performed on the show as well. I remember Annette O'toole being on the show several times before she went to Hollywood. She sang each time & has a beautiful voice. She is now Superman's mom on the show called Smallville.

I understand that you are interested in some of the past shows that my dad did. Well, Jeanna Clare has quite a few of them. The only problem is is that they are big reels, & not transfered to a VCR tape or DVD disk. They would have to be taken to someone who could transfer them. I am fortunate enough to have the first show ever made by my dad. If you could see it, I guarantee it would probably bring tears to your eyes. I would love to find the kids who performed on my dad's first show. I know they would like to have a copy of that show. This is the only copy of the show that Jeanna Clare had made into a VCR tape. Hopefully you will contact me & maybe we can find one of the shows that you were on. We can contact Jeanna Clare. (Not my mom, just my dad's partner).

It was bizarre and facinating at the same time. Don going blind and Jeana Claire looking like she was on a Valium drip-but me and my sisters loved it. We would roll around on the floor and howl watching my crazy middle sister try to imitate the baton twirlers with a crow bar.

Oh yeah, a peice of trivia: Annette O'Toole got her "Big Break" on the show! Now she plays Superboy's Ma on TV.

Annette O'Toole was my dancing teachers' daughter! She was in the same recitals as me! AND Delyse Lively danced there also and on the DMJC show. She won a Tony award for her role in Smokey Joe's Cafe as the SHIMMY girl!