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Presented on June 23 (8:00 PM) and on June 24, 2006 (2:00 PM) during
festivALL.
Presented during the Guild's 2006 Summer Theater series on June 30, July 1,
7, and 8 at 8:00 PM at the Guild Theatre.
We are proud to announce that the Guild's Summer Theatre series is sponsored
again this year by Mrs. Alex Schoenbaum.
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Overview
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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.
This fun production includes such old time greats as Blue Moon, Boogie Woogle Bugle Boy,
Old Black Magic, Ain’t She Sweet, Kalamazoo, Blue
in the Night, I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good, I’ll Be Seeing You,
and Strike Up the Band. |
Characters
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Description |
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Played By |
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Cifton
A. Feddington |
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The announcer and general manager (head of
everything at WOV). He has ulcers from it all and is sometimes
hysterical. |
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Bob McCarty |
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Ann Collier |
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The 'old standard' in the Radio show since its start in 1936. She
sings like Dinah Shore, Doris Day, and Peggy Lee (all rolled into one).
She is a secretary by day, and at looker by night who is dating Johnny. |
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Sarah Harless |
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Johnny Cantone |
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Featured vocalist with the Cavalcade who is on Sinatra's bandwagon.
He's an ex-boxer and a rough guy who drinks too much and has a voice like
velvet. |
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Bryan Archer |
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Ginger Brooks |
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A bubble-headed waitress-turned-singer. She has a pinup, Betty Grable look
with lots of makeup and speaks with a Gracie Allen vacancy. |
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Megan Long |
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Neal Tilden |
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Cab driver by day and singer, dancer, and choreographer at night. He
is hopeful for the 'featured vocalist' slot. |
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Tim Whitener |
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B. J. Gibson |
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The third of the Gibson brothers to work for the Cavalcade. He is
squeaky-clean, good looking, and a preppy student at Yale. |
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Sean Watkins |
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Connie Miller |
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A bobbysoxer from Ogden, Utah. She is perennially in love and runs an
elevator by day. |
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Mara Stewart |
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Pops
Bailey |
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A crotchety, wizened stage doorkeeper who is a
racing bookie on the company phone and reads hidden copies of Show Girl
magazine. |
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Reggie Parks |
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Lou Cohn |
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A big shot (at least in his own mind) who tries
to impress the girls and is sometimes obnoxious. He runs the show and
is the sound effects man. |
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L. Shawn Coleman |
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Wally Ferguson |
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Young hopeful from Altoona, Pennsylvania who came to NYC to work for his
uncle at the drugstore to get his big show-biz break. |
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John Perry |
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Mazie Jones, WOV girl |
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Girl Friday to Cliffton Feddington., back up for lead singers, WOV jingle and commericals. |
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Kristie Affolter |
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Charlene Anderson, WOV girl |
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Stage hand for WOV radio, back up for lead singers, WOV jingle and
commericals, dancer on station. |
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Anne Marie Snyder |
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Biff Baker |
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A young trumpet player with the Zoot Doubleman orchestra
who will be leaving after the concert for Army duty.
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Chris Bays |
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Zoot Doubleman |
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WOV Orchestra Leader |
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Bobby Hodges |
Production
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For the Guild:
Direction by Nina Denton Pasinetti; Musical Direction by Bobby Hodges; Piano
Accompaniment by Melody Rugel-Bias.
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