★ A joyful nostalgia keynote

70 Years and Beyond

A laughter-filled journey through the 1950s, '60s, '70s — and beyond.

A Broadway veteran takes your audience back to school bells, Sunday dinners, car fins, party lines, record players, and the everyday moments that shaped generations. Not a history lecture — a living memory, performed.

50–75 minutes · Custom-tailored · Travels nationwide
Wambui Bahati, 70 Years and Beyond
70 Years and Beyond — a joyful keynote performance
Stories that made us. Moments that shaped us. Memories that still matter.
50 yrs
On stage —
theater & speaking
Broadway
Godspell · Jesus Christ
Superstar · The Wiz
50–75 min
Keynote, luncheon,
or featured program
Nationwide
Conferences, libraries,
& community events
The program

A living memory experience, not a history lecture

70 Years and Beyond is a warm, funny, keynote-style program created and performed by Broadway veteran, master storyteller, and nostalgia keeper Wambui Bahati.

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Warm

Wambui creates the feeling of a front-porch conversation with someone who was there — personal, inviting, and full of heart.

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Funny

From rotary phones to TV dinners, girdles, party lines, and three-channel television, audiences laugh out loud at how much life has changed.

Meaningful

The program brings people back to the memories, music, family rituals, and everyday moments that still live inside us.

Watch

Ninety seconds and you'll get it

A taste of the humor, the warmth, and the stage presence fifty years of Broadway built.

For your event

A feel-good program with real emotional impact

Conference audiences don't only need information. Sometimes they need a shared experience — something that lightens the room, opens conversation, and reminds people of who they are and where they came from.

Ideal for

  • Conferences & speaker series
  • Luncheons & special events
  • Cultural programs
  • Libraries & historical societies
  • Women's groups & faith groups
  • Active adult & senior living

Audiences experience

  • Laughter and recognition
  • Cross-generational connection
  • Audience participation
  • A warm emotional takeaway
  • Memories they want to share

Why it works

For those who lived it, the program brings back the joy of saying, "Yes — that's exactly how it was." For those who didn't, it opens a vivid window into a time before instant everything.

Program snapshot

Length50–75 minutes, flexible
FormatKeynote, featured presentation, luncheon program, or community event
StyleWarm, funny, down-to-earth, story-driven
EngagementOptional Q&A and audience sharing
ToneJoyful, nostalgic, conversational, uplifting

Topics may include

  • School days & classroom memories
  • Fashion — hats, gloves, bell bottoms, leisure suits
  • Food — TV dinners, Jell-O molds, Sunday cooking, drive-ins
  • Cars — tail fins, first rides, family road trips
  • Telephones — party lines, operators, rotary dialing
  • Music that made people stop and dance
  • Television — test patterns, three channels, family viewing
Wambui Bahati
Meet Wambui

Fifty years of knowing how to hold a room

Wambui Bahati is a storyteller, actress, author, and nostalgia keeper with more than five decades of creative and theatrical experience. She trained at the New York University School of the Arts and performed on Broadway in Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar, and on national tours of The Wiz and more.

Her work spans theatre, television, national tours, one-woman shows, speaking, writing, and digital storytelling. Today she brings those gifts to programs that preserve memories, spark laughter, and keep the stories of older generations alive.

With warmth, humor, and stage-tested presence, Wambui creates the feeling of sitting with someone who remembers — and who knows how to turn those memories into a room full of laughter, reflection, and connection.

Featured: The New York Times More magazine Contemporary Black Biography

"She opens a door to our memories and invites us in with laughter, love, and truth."

— Audience member

"It felt like she was talking right to me."

— Audience member

Bring 70 Years and Beyond to your next event.

Give your audience more than a presentation — give them a joyful trip through memory, music, laughter, and the moments that shaped generations. Wambui replies personally, usually within a day.

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