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Headline act on night of Beverly Hills Supper Club fire recounts event 40 years later

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - People still talk about the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire even after 40 years. One person who doesn't is John Davidson. He was the headline act that night. Davidson is now performing again in Cincinnati, this time in the national tour of “Finding Neverland.” John Davidson's career has ranged from hosting his own talk show and game shows like "Hollywood Squares", concerts and performing a lot of theater. At 75-years-old, he has two roles in the musical "Finding Neverland" playing at the Aronoff through Sunday. "In my mind, I’m at the peak of my career, I've been doing show business 50 years,” said Davidson. Davidson plays Charles Frohman, the theater producer who thought playwright J.M. Barrie was taking too big a risk with a fantasy project called “Peter Pan.” Then in a fantasy sequence I play Captain Hook, that's really fun because I go crazy, chew up the scene, I do something different every night,” said Davidson. Davidson has fond memories of Cincinnati, such as being on the Bob Braun Show, but there is the night he usually doesn't talk about. The Beverly Hills Supper Club fire. He was the headline act. He always drew a crowd. "I was one of the lucky ones, got out through a door that was put in the year before,” said Davidson. Davidson escaped through the back-door entrance to the dressing rooms. He was seen holding an exit door as others escaped. His musical director died in the fire. He and band members searched makeshift morgues to find his body. "It changed my life, and so many lives,” said Davidson. “It made me reevaluate the value of life how fragile we all are. It was a terrible night.” Davidson did not perform that night, but the comedy team of “Teter and McDonald” was on stage when the fire broke out. Jim Teter used presidential dummies in his act. He donated them to the Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell which houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquist dummies. "Jim was on stage doing Carter. It was 1977, Carter was president,” said Davidson. Teeter made it out. "All these dummies were lying out on the grass as well as other bodies. It was such a tragic night. Affected so many people,” said Davidson. Davidson says certain scenes in "Finding Neverland" take him back to that night in 1977. "I think about that often during the show that those people from Beverly Hills Club are in Neverland,” said Davidson. "Finding Neverland" runs through Sunday, Nov. 18 at the Aronoff Center.