The William Credo Agency Legacy Tribute SeriesPresented by WCA Entertainment

Touring production · The nineties

The decade that raised your audience.

Every genre the nineties had, live — with choreography, synced music video, and a room dressed like it’s 1997.

The nineties did not have a sound. That is the whole point of the decade, and it is what makes this show different from every other era tribute on the market. In 1994 the same radio station played Nirvana, Boyz II Men, Green Day, TLC, Dr. Dre and the Cranberries inside the same hour, and nobody found it strange. An audience that grew up on that does not want a genre — it wants the whole radio dial, in the order it actually arrived.

So the show is built to switch. Grunge into new jack swing into a boy-band ballad into West Coast hip-hop into a Britpop singalong, and back again, without the band sounding like it is guessing at any of them. That takes nine musicians and six vocalists who can genuinely front different things: the person who sells “Waterfalls” is not the person who sells “Basket Case,” and a show that pretends otherwise gets found out in about ninety seconds. Casting for range rather than for one lead singer is the reason this works.

It is a non-stop show. The set is programmed as a single run with the transitions written in, so the energy never resets between numbers — the nineties material is short, fast and relentless, and treating it as a sequence of separate songs with applause breaks kills exactly what makes it fun. Costume changes happen inside the arc and mark the turns of the decade, and the choreography is built for the material rather than dropped on top of it.

Synchronized video is available as an option. This is the decade that invented the music video as a shared cultural object, and a screen package cut to the arrangements gives an audience the thing they half-remember alongside the song — the choreography they learned off television, the images attached to the record. For a ballroom or festival stage it pulls the back of the room into the show. It is an option, not a requirement; the band carries the night without it.

The name is the exact phrase this audience used in middle school. Say it out loud to someone who was fourteen in 1996 and watch what happens to their face — which is a fair preview of what the first four bars do to a room.

It is the easiest sell in the series to a client whose staff is under fifty, and it pairs naturally with the decades on either side of it: run L’Eighties Night one evening and this the next and you have covered your audience’s entire adolescence on one travel bill. Built for festivals, casino rooms, corporate parties and any room that needs to end standing up.

“I Have Nothing” — live.
“Escapade” — live.
“Whoomp! (There It Is)” — live.
“The Sign” — live.
“Always Be My Baby” — live.
“Tha Crossroads” — live.

Booking

The easiest sell to a client whose staff is under fifty. Built for festivals, casino rooms and corporate parties.


The songbook

Fifty songs, 1990 to 1999.

Every genre the decade had, in the order it arrived. The running order is built for your crowd rather than played straight down the list.

  1. Ice Ice BabyVanilla Ice, 1990
  2. U Can’t Touch ThisMC Hammer, 1990
  3. Groove Is in the HeartDeee-Lite, 1990
  4. Smells Like Teen SpiritNirvana, 1991
  5. MotownphillyBoyz II Men, 1991
  6. Under the BridgeRed Hot Chili Peppers, 1991
  7. Baby Got BackSir Mix-a-Lot, 1992
  8. Jump AroundHouse of Pain, 1992
  9. End of the RoadBoyz II Men, 1992
  10. My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)En Vogue, 1992
  11. I Will Always Love YouWhitney Houston, 1992
  12. Rhythm Is a DancerSnap!, 1992
  13. Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ ThangDr. Dre, 1992
  14. What’s Up?4 Non Blondes, 1993
  15. WeakSWV, 1993
  16. What Is LoveHaddaway, 1993
  17. LingerThe Cranberries, 1993
  18. CreepTLC, 1994
  19. RegulateWarren G, 1994
  20. JuicyThe Notorious B.I.G., 1994
  21. Basket CaseGreen Day, 1994
  22. Black Hole SunSoundgarden, 1994
  23. ZombieThe Cranberries, 1994
  24. I’ll Make Love to YouBoyz II Men, 1994
  25. WaterfallsTLC, 1995
  26. FantasyMariah Carey, 1995
  27. California Love2Pac, 1995
  28. WonderwallOasis, 1995
  29. 1979The Smashing Pumpkins, 1995
  30. MacarenaLos del Río, 1995
  31. WannabeSpice Girls, 1996
  32. No DiggityBlackstreet, 1996
  33. Return of the MackMark Morrison, 1996
  34. Always Be My BabyMariah Carey, 1996
  35. Don’t Let Go (Love)En Vogue, 1996
  36. MMMBopHanson, 1997
  37. Gettin’ Jiggy wit ItWill Smith, 1997
  38. HypnotizeThe Notorious B.I.G., 1997
  39. Semi-Charmed LifeThird Eye Blind, 1997
  40. Bitter Sweet SymphonyThe Verve, 1997
  41. TubthumpingChumbawamba, 1997
  42. TornNatalie Imbruglia, 1997
  43. Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)Backstreet Boys, 1997
  44. BelieveCher, 1998
  45. Closing TimeSemisonic, 1998
  46. No ScrubsTLC, 1999
  47. I Want It That WayBackstreet Boys, 1999
  48. Genie in a BottleChristina Aguilera, 1999
  49. All StarSmash Mouth, 1999
  50. Mambo No. 5Lou Bega, 1999

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