Mickey Gilley

At the Mickey Gilley Theatre, 3455 W Highway 76.

December 2009 Update: Mickey Gilley fell and required back surgery on Tuesday, July 7, 2009. It all went well, and a full recovery is expected. His shows are "on hold" while he recovers. He is expected to return to his Branson stage in October - November April 12th of 2010 now!

Mickey Gilley's soulful piano and voice have taken him a long way from the boyhood days of listening to the blues in Ferriday, Louisiana. After struggling for years as musician, Mickey found an audience with the honky-tonk classics "Room Full of Roses," "I Overlooked An Orchid," and "Don't the Girls All Look Prettier at Closing Time." Then came the romantic country hits "That's All That Matters" and "Lonely Nights," and eventually an amazing 39 Top Ten country songs, 17 of them hitting #1.

There was also the legendary nightclub Gilley's, the movie Urban Cowboy, and a whole new career winning new fans at his own theatre in Branson.

Mickey's back in 2009 (this is his 19th year in Branson; he opened his Branson theater in 1990) with the signature hits, comic banter with steel guitarist Joey Riley (twice Branson's All-American Comedian of the Year; now with his own 2 pm show at the theater), the Grammy-winning Urban Cowboy Band, beauteous Urbanette singers Kacie Bays and Katie Lynn, and plenty of surprises. Katie Lynn has has received the Branson Entertainment Awards Best Support Vocalist twice for her work in the Mickey Gilley Show. She has worked with Gilley for more than eight years and also worked with Jim Owen for seven years.

Mick's too modest to say it, so we'll say it for him. This is a chance to see a bona fide American musical legend, who is a genuinely nice guy to boot.

Shows are at 10 am or 8 pm, March 20 through December 13, 2009.