Ventriloquists - revisited

I originally posted this a year ago after Mackenzie Bart won Miss Ohio.  I revisit it this summer with updated information during the international ventriloquists convention week.

Row, row, row your boat, ROW, gently, ROW, down, ROW, the stream, YOUR BOAT...

As entertainment and performance, ventriloquism is a 250+ year-old art form. As a religious practice, it has been around for thousands of years.

Let's consider the women who have brought a "friend" or two onstage with them in talent at Miss America.

Ventriloquism at Miss America peaked during the 1970's with seven contestants performing it as their talent and four of those making Top 10 (including TWO in 1971, the only year that two ventriloquists have made Top 10).

Vonda Kay Van Dyke

Miss Arizona 1964

Miss Congeniality

MISS AMERICA 1965

Together from GYPSY

Paige Phillips

Miss Alabama 1980

1st Runner-up & Prelim Talent winner

Rock-a-Bye Your Baby,

Swanee, & Mame

Patricia Brant

Miss Louisiana 1987

1st Runner-up & Prelim Talent winner

Row, Row, Row Your Boat & 

Arizona Yodeler

Alyse Eady

Miss Arkansas 2010

1st Runner-up

I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart

Stacey Peterson

Miss Arizona 1975

4th Runner-up

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Cynthia Cook

Miss Georgia 1971

Top 10 & Prelim Talent winner

Impersonations of celebrities

Sandy Rings

Miss Kansas 1971

Top 10 & Prelim Talent winner

Toyland

Marie McLaughlin

Miss Pennsylvania 1976

Top 10

Together

Maria Wynne

Miss Pennsylvania 1990

Top 10

Together

Mackenzie Bart
Miss Ohio 2014
Top 10 & Prelim Talent Winner
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Gloria Gilbert

Miss Texas 1982

Non-Finalist Talent

I've Been Everywhere

Barbara Crandall

Miss Michigan 1984

Non-Finalist Talent

Auctioneer's Song

Cheryl Hirst

Miss Rhode Island 1961

Non-Finalist Talent-Best Variety Act

Ventriloquism & Organ

This Can't Be Love

Pam Long

Miss Alabama 1974

selection unknown

Darby Moore

Miss Alaska 1974

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Sharon Pelc

Miss Nebraska 1974

Those Were The Days

Angelina Johnson

Miss Tennessee 1981

Laverne and Shirley

Sandra Dornak

Miss Nevada 1992

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Heather Dupree
Miss Louisiana 1998
Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)

Did I miss anyone?  Updates, corrections, and additional information may always posted on Facebook on the Crowned page or by sending me an email at crownedmissa@gmail.com.