Step into a living time machine,

with some late-October spooky flair!

This immersive school show transports your students back to the early 1900s, offering a vividly entertaining window into the eras of urbanization, the Great Depression, and World War II. Through a combination of carefully curated (and suitably spooky) comedy film clips, cartoons, historic photos, and newsreel footage, history is transformed from a textbook lesson into a vivid, shared journey—one where students get to see how Tucson kids just like them experienced these historic milestones.

Your time machine will be the historic Fox Tucson Theatre!  Before TV and streaming, theatres like the Fox were where people came to watch world events.  Before recorded music and amplification, such theatres provided a live soundtrack on the built-in theatre organ.  Students will experience this firsthand, with acclaimed organist Brett Valliant bringing the screen to life with his live, musical accompaniment on the Fox’s mind-blowing Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ.

This is an immersive voyage through time,

connecting local heritage with global history.

Brett Valliant is an organist that plays the music he loves on the instrument he loves. Whether at an organ in a concert hall, a majestic church organ, or a mighty Wurlitzer in a theatre, Brett is right at home. Today Brett is one of two resident organists at the iconic Organ Stop Pizza in Mesa, Arizona. Organ Stop Pizza houses the world’s largest theatre organ and entertains thousands of patrons each year. In addition to his playing at Organ Stop, Brett is known for accompanying and scoring silent films and appears annually at numerous film festivals. Brett has toured extensively as a concert artist throughout the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe, and in 2021 Brett was named Organist of the Year by the American Theater Organ Society.

Learn about the organ the students will experience: