The Hughes Brother Family Show

It's a huge show starring an incredibly gifted family. But it's not just a troupe of family entertainers showing off their abundance of talent and cute kids. This show is communicating to us on another level. Through finger snappin', toe-tappin', often breathtaking music and dance, and through interludes of comedy and heartwarming scenes, we get the message.

These gifts and talents are expressing a family's love for one another, a love of what they do, and their love of people, (which be us out there in the peanut gallery!) Revealing where it all comes from, elder Hughes Brother Marty points upward near the close of the show, boldly giving honor, glory, and thanksgiving to "our Savior Jesus Christ."

Every act, every scene of this show is an absolute delight, each aspect of it entirely conceived, produced and directed by the Hughes Brothers and their amazingly talented wives. (There's some humor in that line if you care to reach for it.) A perfect example of what makes a scene so fun in this production is a segment featuring lovely fourteen--year-old Kristina Hughes.

Approaching the mike with violin, Kristina begins a flawless rendition of the hauntingly beautiful Ashoken Farewell, (made famous in the Ken Burns Civil War series on PBS.) As the sweet strains of the violin solo takes the heart and emotions to lofty places, suddenly two more little Hughes violinists appear.
They join in. Moments later, two more arrive. Then, out come another two. The swells of the music build, the oohs and aaaahs now filling the audience as yet two more violinists pop in from the wings, each duo smaller, younger. Now they all form a long line of varying heights, looking like a flight of stairs stretching across the stage. The song grows strong and powerful, until it is eventually swept away by the happy sounds of woo-hoos and a mighty rush of applause.

Kristina's number is typical of the surprises that come fast and furious throughout the show. The festivities kick off with the founding fathers, those dashing, harmonizing, boot-scootin' show biz veterans who look like movie stars, sing like angels and play audiences like a fiddle. They're that good because for one, male voices never blend sweeter than they do when brotherly. And they're that good for plenty of other reasons.

The Hughes Brothers Family Tree: Marty & Cindy Kristina, 14 Dallin, 12 Derek, 10 Jacob, 9 Joseph, 8 Benjamin, 6 Katelin, 5, Kirsten, 4 Kimberly, 2 Amanda, 1 Jason & Mara Aaron, 12 Jesse, 9 Hannah, 8 Tobler, 6 Emiline, 3 Adam & Vikki, happy together Ryan & Carina William, 8 Nathaniel, 6 Ashton, 4 Alexandra, 1 Andy & Becky Matthew, 6 Jonathan, 2 Natalie, a newborn, who this year will be playing the baby Jesus in The Hughes Brothers Christmas Show! Hughes Parents: Gary & Lena, and their adopted Russian children Sophia, 18, Sarah, 16 David 14

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