Fans of 70’s music will converge on Lindenwood University’s J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts next month for the taping of a 1970s-themed pop music and culture TV show.

The show, called “Marvin Hamlisch Presents: The ’70s, The Way We Were” , will be videotaped March 17 and used by PBS stations across the country during pledge drives beginning in August. Thirteen popular 70’s acts will be featured along with vignettes featuring pop culture happenings of each year in the decade. Composer Marvin Hamlisch will host the program and performers will include Three Dog Night, B.J. Thomas, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., Peaches and Herb, Debby Boone, Billy Joe Royal, Ray Stevens, Freda Payne, Bobby Goldsboro, Jonathan Edwards, Vicki Lawrence and Guy and Ralna.    

The taping of the program will begin at 2 p.m. at the Scheidegger Center’s 1,200-seat Bezemes Family Theatre and could last three hours or longer. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday; all seats are $42.50.   Audience members a reminded that the show isn’t a typical concert but a TV taping that might involve delays such as “song restarts” to get camera angles right.