Steve McAlphabet’s Wandering Soul Road Show presents: The Cowboy Cabaret – a journey into the legacy of Will Rogers

The Road to Will Film After a lifetime of dreaming to be a cowboy, in 2017, Steve McAllister was cast as one of the greatest cowboys of all time, Will Rogers, in a community theatre production of the Tony Award winning show, The Will Rogers Follies. The most beloved celebrity of his generation, Will Rogers was the biggest box office male lead at cinemas, most listened to radio host, the most widely read journalist in newspapers, and most popular public speaker in America. Since few know anything about him 87 years after his tragic death, Steve took his motorcycle on a 10,500 mile journey through 24 states and the nation’s capital to explore the legacy of the man nominated as Life magazine’s presidential candidate for the 1928 Anti-Bunk Party, and the only person in history to speak at both the Democratic and Republican parties in the same year. Infused with the wit and wisdom of America’s most beloved humorist, The Road To Will is a journey America needs to take.

Get the Bunk Out: America Will Laugh Again -One Man Show In 1928, Life magazine heralded the launch of the Anti-Bunk Party and nominated humorist Will Rogers as their presidential candidate. In his acceptance column, he wrote, “Your offer struck me like what the better fed English authors call ‘a bolt from the blue.’ It leaves me dazed, and if I can stay dazed, I ought to make a splendid candidate.”Will’s first official campaign promise was that if he were elected, he would resign. Yet before his run as the “bunkless candidate” came to an end, he had gained the support of such prominent people as Babe Ruth, Amelia Earhart, and Henry Ford, with Ford’s assertion that the Anti-Bunk campaign was “a serious attempt to restore American common sense to American politics.”