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1940's Radio Hour
Audtions - June 28 and 29, 2010
Show - August 26, 27 and 28 2010
Ridgeland High School Auditorium
Director - J. C. Howell
The 1940’s Radio Hour takes the audience on a nostalgic trip down
memory lane into a backdrop of the second World War, setting the stage
for swinging big band music and old fashioned situation comedy of a bygone
period. It takes place in a small 5000-watt New York City radio station
(WOV) located in the Hotel Astor’s Algonquin Room around Christmastime
1942 and is centered around a group of performers and their attempts to
make it to the “big time” in show biz. There is a wide selection
of stock characters of various ages such as the harried producer, the
delivery boy who aspires to stardom, the torch singer who raises temperatures
in the studio, the alcoholic featured male vocalist and the kindly elderly
man who has seen everything and understands everyone. The radio program,
the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade, is seen through the eyes of the
theatre audience who become the actual radio station audience.
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