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Guinness "Book of World Records" #1: The World's Largest Tap Dance, 10/15/1979, a TA DA! Special Event Photo: Center of front row of 1,801 tap dancers who opened the Hennepin Center for the Arts 10/15/1979, into the Guinness "Book of World Records"; L to R: two granddaughters of ex vaudevillians; Herbie Berkus, ex-Vaudevillian; Beth Obermeyer, Event Director; Loyce Houlton, Founder, Artistic Director, Minnesota Dance Theatre; Edward Holmburg, MDT Board of Directors; Judy Larson, Tap III, MDT. Event sponsored by the Minnesota Dance Theatre, tenant of the center; Event Concept, Direction by Beth Obermeyer, TA DA! Special Events; Publicity, Top That Event Publicity
World's Largest Tap Dance, 10/15/1979; Guinness "Book of World Records"; 15 to a row, rows A-Z, AA-ZZ, through Row QQQQQ-1. Numbers on backs for Guinness book verification, signatures provided by row. Tap shoes required; dressed in anything red, white and/or blue
World's Largest Marching Band, 10/12/1981, Guinness "Book of World Records;" Beth, Director; Dr. Frank Bencriscutto, U MN, Conductor; Meredith Willson (The Music Man), Guest Conductor: 2,512 marching musicians
YouTube 1801 Tap Dancers
World's Largest Tap Dance, 10/15/1979, Minneapolis MN (front row); Guinness "Book of World Records": 1,801 tap dancers in unison, Beth, Director
Mass Break Dance, "Pioneer Press," St. Paul; in front of St Paul YWCA; Beth, Director 4/17/1984
World's Longest Danceline, Guinness "Book of World Records," Metrodome, Minneapolis; 512 dancers; Beth, Director MN Vikings 25th anniversary half-time party
Ripley's "Believe It or Not": World's Longest Tap Dance Distance Record; Guinness "Book of World Records"; Minneapolis Metrodome; Beth and daughter Kristin, 1983 Aquatennial Parade, Minneapolis; World Distance Tap Dance Record 4.1 miles; Guinness “Book of World Records”
234 4-yr-olds from Head Start open the 6th Street Transit Station, Minneapolis, 5/21/1987 singing "The People on the Bus"; Beth, Event Director
234 4-yr-olds from L side
Bridgeman's Ice Cream Parlors/Land O Lakes won a "Forbes Magazine" Business in the Arts Award for the Bridgeman's Night at the Nutcracker and Loring Park Nutcracker events 10/18/1991
Recognition, "Minnesota Woman’s Year Book" Advisory Board 1983-1984
Governor’s Office Certificate of Appreciation 6/3/1990
State of Minnesota certificate of Registration TA DA! Special Events 10/18/1991
State of MN certificate of Registration TOP THAT! Event Publicity 10/18/1991
Tap Teacher Recruitment Form for the mass tap dance event
Great Shake, St Paul; Guinness "Book of World Records" 1981
Sha Na Na Photo Shoot recruitment 11/1986
Houlton "Nutcracker Fantasy" 26-year reunion, State Theatre, Minneapolis; Beth, Director 1992
Christmas Craft Show, Hyatt Hotel, Minneapolis 11/1983; 11/1984
Bridgeman’s "Night at the Nutcracker," Loring Park, Minneapolis, St. Paul 12/1980
St. Paul mayor leapfrogs in Frogtown 10/1980
Directing a mass Mary Tyler Moore Hat toss; 10/20/1987
Mass Break Dance, front of St. Paul YWCA, St. Paul 4/17/1984
"Symphony for Survival" Members MN Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Beth, Event Director 5/1984
Guindon Cartoon, Star Tribune, 10/1979 "How are the tap dancers going to get to work?"
Guest Soloist, "Prairie Home Companion"; page from script: played "Stump the Taps"; soloed with Butch Thompson, pianist Dec 31, 1983
MN Festival of the Book, 1988, Sponsored by Friends of the St. Paul Public Library; Beth Obermeyer, Director 10/30/1988
"Tap Day" promotion for Gregory Hines' film "Tap!" Beth Obermeyer, Director, for Nemer Fieger PR 1/21/1989 City Center, Minneapolis, 1/21/1989
World's Longest Bucket Brigade, June 6, 1981, Lake Street Council; Beth Obermeyer, Director
Decade-long 1979-1982 correspondence with Eleanor Powell, 40s film star 1979-1982
Mass Break Dance, St. Paul YWCA; Beth Obermeyer, Director 4/17/1984
Cartoon: "The coroner says he was tap-danced to death." "Minneapolis Tribune" Hennepin Center for the Arts 1,801 tap dancers; Director Event: Beth Obermeyer Faculty, Minnesota Dance Theatre 10/16/1979
"Minneapolis Star" article by Beth Obermeyer
MN Festival of the Book, 10/1989; Beth Obermeyer, Opening Event Director, festival sponsored by The Loft Literary Center, sponsor
w Barbara Flanagan, "Star Tribune" columnist, her first retirement party
"Mpls St. Paul" magazine article on the Performing Arts Archive, U MN; features Beth's donated papers March 2025
"Mpls St. Paul" magazine, cover March 2025
TA DA! Special Events official photo, 1982
Star Tribune photo for article, cover, Variety
MN Festival of the Book, Director, 1988, for Friends of the St. Paul Public Library
Panel, Ecstasies and Influences, Cowles Center Minneapolis
History of Tap Panel; Ecstasies and Influences: Joe Chvala, Ellen Keane U MN, Beth, Kaleena Miller, Rick Ausland
Poster: The Cowles Center, Minnesota Dance and the Ecstasies of Influences, Part 5, History of Tap Twin Cities
Wanted Poster: 26th Reunion, Loyce Houlton's "Nutcracker Fantasy," Minnesota Dance Theatre, December 1992, State Theatre, Minneapolis; Beth, Director
100 dancers from Sue Matson's Stage Door, Coon Rapids, fill the atrium, International Market Square, Minneapolis, for a corporate event; Beth Obermeyer, Event Director
A Star Tribune Sunday Magazine interview, January 1987; Twin Cities
TA DA! Special Events anniversary
TA DA! Special Events Skyway News Page 42
YWCA News Release
One of five new units for the St. Paul Winter Carnival Parade for WCCO-TV, directed by Beth; Norwest Bank unit
Kappa Alpha Theta Magazine; 1982; photo with Meredith Willson, composer, "The Music Man," when he came to Minneapolis to Guest Conduct the World's Largest Marching Band, 10/1981; Beth, Event Director
The Great Shake, newspaper articles; Guinness "Book of World Records"
Poster, Minnesota Christmas Craft Sale, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Thanksgiving weekend, 1983; Beth, Director
Winter Carnival parade unit; Beth Director
Review: St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch; Sha Na Na Video Shoot; Beth, Costumed Crowd Recruitment
Poster: St. Paul YWCA Mass Break Dance
Article, Star Tribune, Minneapolis, The Great Shake; Guinness "Book of World Records" Beth, Director
Article, "Star Tribune," Twin Cities; Mass Break Dance, YWCA St Pau; April 1984; Beth Obermeyer, Director; Diane Norman, Community Development, YWCA St. Paul
Article, "Skyway News," 234 Head Start pre-schoolers sing "The People on the Bus" to open a transit station, Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis; Beth, Event Director
Helicopter view, 1,801 tap dancers, opening Hennepin Center for the Arts, Minneapolis; Opening, Business Salutes the Arts Week, Minneapolis; Beth, Event Director 10/15/1979
Star Tribune, article, cover and back pages, Variety Section; Photo, The World's Largest Marching Band, October 12,1981; Beth, Event Director
w Mayor Rybak, Minneapolis Speaker 100th Birthday Hennepin Center for the Arts
w Mayor George Latimer, at Mickey's Dinner, Minneapolis host Celebrity Dog Sled Race WCCO AM radio
Tapping Santa, Butler Square
The Gazette
Tapping Nutcracker: Snowflakes; 12/1979
St. Paul Winter Carnival
Metro/State News
Mayor Fraser, Minneapolis, leads seventy-six trombones to kick off the Summer Pleasures Parade, sponored by "Mpls St Paul” Magazine and WCCO-TV
Flowers, Summer Pleasures Parade, sponsored by Mpls St. Paul Magazine and WCCO-TV
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Mpls St.Paul Summer Pleasures
Pioneer Pre Earth Day
Mower sunny-day silliness
Super Bowl half-time proposal, had a pop-up artist create a visual for every new scene.
Don Del Fiacco column, October 1979: "The Tappety Tap of Many Feet. (1,801 tap dancers 10/15/79, Hennepin Avenue)
Don Del Fiacco column, St Paul Pioneer Press, "Going on at Great Lengths"
Skyway News "Snapshot: Beth Obermeyer”
Kappa Alpha Theta Magazine; "Big is Her Thing"
Minnesota History Magazine; book review, "The Biggest Dance; A Miracle on Concrete" by Beth Obermeyer
Midwest Book Award Finalist, one of three, Autobiography/Memoir, "The Days of Song and Lilacs," by Mary Beth Sartor Obermeyer, North Star Press, 2011
Program, Midwest Book Award, May 8, 2013: "The Days of Song and Lilacs," Finalist, one of three, Memoir
"Lake of the Isles Living" Magazine, Home Section p 14; July 2016; Beth Obermeyer home
"Lake of the Isles Living" Magazine, Home Section, p 15; Beth Obermeyer home
"Lake of the Isles Living" Magazine: Home Section, p 16, July 2016
Professional in Residence, Iowa State University, Fall 1992, Beth Obermeyer, Journalism graduate 1964. Paper Cutting by Linda Emmerson, ISU 1961
"Visions" Magazine, Iowa State University, 1992; Crossword Puzzle, 30' x 30', placed on ISU campus, a TA DA! Special Event, Beth Obermeyer; puzzle clues by Iowa State University students, Greenlee School of Journalism; Linda Emmerson, ISU '61, letter graphics
"Iowa State Daily" article, Crossword Puzzle on Main Campus, 30' x 30'; clues by ISU students, Greenlee School of Journalism; a TA DA! Special Event by Beth Obermeyer, ISU '64; Linda Emmerson, ISU '61, graphics, Fall 1992
"Des Moines Register" article, "Those are some big words they're usng". 30' by 30' crossword puzzle on main campus, Iowa State University, clues by ISU students, Greenlee School of Journalism; graphics by Lina Emmerson, ISU '61; a TA DA! Special Event, Beth Obermeyer, ISU '64
"Lake of the Isles Living" Magazine, Neighbors Section
"Lake of the Isles Living," Magazine, pp 11, 9, Dance; July 2016
Cover, "Lake of the Isles Living," July 2016; article on Beth Obermeyer, Journalist, Dancer; Home by husband Thomas Obermeyer, architect, July 2016
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