Make New Memories with stars4taps

stars4taps works with the entertainment industry — including musicians, actors, Broadway and TV shows, films, and productions on tour — to create meaningful opportunities for TAPS families to make new memories with the entertainers who once brought them, and their fallen hero, joy and happiness.

Is there a country concert you had tickets to see when your loved one was supposed to return from deployment, a Tom Hanks movie that brings back memories of your first date or a TV series you used to watch with your sibling? If your loved one had a special story or connection with an entertainer or production, we would love to hear it. Submit your stories and photos through our online form or email stars4taps@taps.org.

Participating Entertainment

Survivors at Hollywood

TELEVISION

TV Shows / Screenings / Award Shows

'68 Whiskey' Premiere Party
Brave Premiere on NBC
Dancing with the Stars
The ESPY Awards
Masters of the Air Premiere (Apple TV+, Los Angeles, California)
SEAL Team Premiere (USS Intrepid in New York City)
SEAL Team Season 2 Premiere (Los Angeles, California)
SEAL Team Season 4 Cast Visit (2020 Los Angeles Chargers Salute to Service Virtual Event)
SEAL Team Season 7 Advance Screening with Toni Trucks (Manistee, Michigan)
SEAL Team Season 7 Advance Screening (USS Intrepid — New York City)
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Price is Right
Celebrity Family Feud

Set Visits

Big Bang Theory
CBS Mornings
The Conners
How to Get Away with Murder
Madam Secretary
Modern Family
Pawn Stars
SEAL Team
Scandal

Personalities

Drew Carey, The Price is Right
Eric Dane, The Last Ship
Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder
Chef Robert Irvine
Joe Mantegna, Criminal Minds
Terry Schappert, Hollywood Weapons
Jon Stewart
Toni Trucks, SEAL Team
The Cast of The Conners
The Cast of Modern Family
The Cast of Scandal
The Cast of SEAL Team

FILM

Movie Screenings / Film Festivals

12 Strong
100 Yards of Hope
Big Miracle
Captain America (Air & Space Museum)
Last Flag Flying
Middleburg Film Festival (Middleburg, Virginia)
Midway
Rebel in the Rye
Thank You for Your Service
The Greatest Beer Run
Top Gun: Maverick
They Shall Not Grow Old

Actors

Patrick J Abrams
Gary Sinise
Jeremy Renner
Miles Teller

Studio Tours

Universal Studios (Hollywood, California)
Walt Disney Studios (Hollywood, California)
Warner Brothers Studios (Hollywood, California)

OTHER ENTERTAINMENT

Cirque du Soleil: Love (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Cirque du Soleil: Mystère (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Cirque du Soleil: Volta (Tysons, Virginia, Las Vegas, Nevada)
Criss Angel Show (Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, Nevada)
Disney on Ice (Long Island, New York & Washington, D.C.)

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THEATER / DANCE

Broadway

Bandstand (Jacobs Theatre — New York City)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Liverpool Empire Theatre — Liverpool, England, United Kingdom)
Come From Away (Schoenfeld Theater — New York City)
Snow White (Ballet West — Salt Lake City, Utah)

Broadway Tours / Regional Productions

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Theatre — Washington, D.C.)
Aladdin (Orpheum Theater — Omaha, Nebraska)
An American in Paris (Orpheum Theater — Omaha, Nebraska)
Bandstand National Tour (Multiple Cities)
Born Yesterday (Ford Theatre — Washington, D.C.)
Children's Theatre-In-The-Woods (Wolf Trap Foundation — Vienna, Virginia)
Come From Away (The Ahmason Theater — Los Angeles, California)
Monster High 2
NSO Pops: West Side Story in Concert (Kennedy Center — Washington, D.C.)
The Phantom of the Opera National Tour
The Secret Garden (Shakespeare Theatre — Washington, D.C.)
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Theatre — Washington, D.C.)
Potted Potter (Shakespeare Theatre — Washington, D.C.)
White Christmas (Opheum Theater — Omaha, Nebraska)

Performers

Joe Carroll
Corey Cott
Alex Finke
Laura Osnes
The Cast of Aladdin
The Cast of An American In Paris
The Cast of Bandstand
The Cast of Bandstand National Tour
The Cast of Come From Away
The Cast of The Secret Garden
The Cast of White Christmas

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MUSIC

Concerts

AJR (Austin, Texas; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Boston, Massachusetts)
August Greene w/Common (Kennedy Center — Washington, D.C.)
Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire: Heart & Soul Tour (Footprint Center — Phoenix, Arizona)
Earth, Wind & Fire (Capital One Arena — Washington, D.C.)
Ed Sheeran (Nationals Ballpark, Commanders Field — Washington, D.C.)
Gary Sinise & the Lt. Dan Band (Invincible Spirit Festival — Fort Belvoir, Virginia)
Gloria Gaynor (Library of Congress: Bibliodiscotheque — Washington, D.C.)
Hootie & the Blowfish (PNC Music Pavilion — Charlotte, North Carolina)
Hugh Jackman: The Man. The Music. The Show. (Capital One Arena — Washington, D.C.)
Jason Isbell (Ryman Auditorium — Nashville, Tennessee)
Michael Buble (Capital One Arena — Washington, D.C.)
New York Youth Symphony Orchestra (Carnegie Hall — New York City)
NSO Family Concert: Tribute to Leonard Bernstein with Ben Folds (Kennedy Center — Washington, D.C.)
Roger Waters (Capital One Arena — Washington, D.C.)
Soul2Soul Tour: Tim McGraw & Faith Hill (Pepsi Center — Denver, Colorado)
Taylor Swift (Nationals Ballpark — Washington, D.C.)
The Muppets Take the Bowl (Hollywood Bowl — Hollywood, California)
Train: Play That Song Tour (Fort Idaho Center Amphitheater — Nampa, Idaho)
Tribute to the Fallen, Grunt Style (House of Entertainment & Music — Arlington Heights, Illinois)
United States Army Band
VetsAID Concert (George Mason University — Fairfax, Virginia)
Wolf Trap Summer Concert Series (Wolf Trap Foundation — Vienna, Virginia)
Zac Brown Band (MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheater — Tampa, Florida)

Musicians / Performers

Aaron Watson
Adam, Jack, and Ryan Met, AJR
Gary Sinise, Lt. Dan Band
Gloria Gaynor
Hootie & the Blowfish
Kix Brooks, Brooks & Dunn
Lee Greenwood
Love Lives On TAPS Album
Luke Combs
The Muppets: Kermit, Pepé the King Prawn, Miss Piggy, Gonzo
Pat Monahan, Train
Zac Brown Band

If you're involved in the entertainment industry and want to support stars4taps, please contact us at stars4taps@taps.org or 800-959-8277 to learn more.