Friday, July 17, 2020

Theatre Artists Studio presents EAR PLAYS, a series of Vintage Radio programs reimagined


EarPlays will offer reimagined vintage radio productions in a variety of genres (drama, comedy, horror, sci-fi, detective, westerns, etc.), recorded on site on the stages of Theatre Artists Studio in Scottsdale, Arizona, featuring our Artistic Members.  Once the program is established, we also plan to present original “radio plays” from our Studio playwrights.  Plays will be presented in podcast..  

Our opening slate of radio plays includes SUE 'EM 1925, THE SHADOW 1937, FIBBER MCGEE AND MOLLY 1941, and THE MALTESE FALCON 1946.  We hope these will be first the first of many.

Our Technical Crew:
Director - Charles Sowder
Podcast Guru - Jason Isaak
Sound Engineer - Bruce Howden
Audio Mixing/Editing - Michael Fleck

You can listen to EarPlays podcasts via our Libsyn host or you can search for EarPlays on iTunes/Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast player.


SUE 'EM 
by Nancy Bancroft Brosius  (1925)


Sue 'Em was the very first play written for the radio and published in America. It was awarded First Prize in the WGBS Radio Drama Contest of 1925.

The Cast:

Prologue      Alan Austin
Announcer   Jason Isaak
Mrs. Dorn    Carol Gibson
Effie Dorn    Martha Welty
Mr. Dorn      Walt Pedano
Bill Dorn       Jake Nichols


THE SHADOW: The Death Triangle 
by Walter B. Gibson  (1937)

Podcast Coming Soon

"The Death Triangle' is the twelfth episode of The Shadow,  Dec 12, 1937. The first episode was "The Death House Rescue" on Sept 9, 1937.  Orson Welles last stint as The Shadow was in "The Caverns of Death" on Sept 11, 1938

The Cast:

Lamont Cranston      Tom Koelbel
Margot Lane               Susan Sindelar
Voice/Announcer       Walt Pedano
Doctor Evans               Jason Isaak
Pierre Martan             Al Benneian
Dubrille                        David Heap
Maidservant                 Judith Eisenberg


FIBBER MCGEE AND MOLLY: Fibber Learns The Piano  
 (1941)

Podcast Coming Soon

Fibber McGee and Molly was a 1935–1959 American radio comedy series. The situation comedy, a staple of the NBC Radio Network for the show's entire run and one of the most popular and enduring radio series of its time, ran as a stand-alone series from 1935 to 1956, and then continued as a short-form series as part of the weekend Monitor from 1957 to 1959. The title characters were created and portrayed by Jim and Marian Jordan, a real-life husband and wife team that had been working in radio since the 1920s.

The Cast:

Fibber                      Michael Fleck         
Molly                        Julie Lee
Will/Announcer      Walt Pedano
Hal                           Tom Koelbel
Uppy                        Carol Gibson
Bern                         Alexis Reed
Old Timer                Don Woodard
Salesperson            Laura Pawlowski
Man #1                    Bruce Howden
Man #2                     Jake Nichols


THE MALTESE FALCON 
by Dashiell Hammett   (1946)

Podcast Coming Soon

The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in 1949-1951. Before the series, Sam Spade had been played in radio adaptations of The Maltese Falcon by both Edward G. Robinson in a 1943 Lux Radio Theater production and by Humphrey Bogart (in a 1941 Academy Award Theater production, both on CBS. Dashiell Hammett's name was removed from the series in the late 1940s because he was being investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) for involvement with the Communist Party.

The Cast:

Sam Spade       Jason Isaak         
Bridget             Marney Austin
Cairo                 Al Benneian
Gutman            Michael Fleck
Wilmer              Mark Gluckman

1 comment:

  1. When I lived in Topeka, KS I was in the staged radio play "The Hound of the Baskervilles." I knew the playwright Philip Grecian (who plays Sherlock Holmes). He had live music and live sound effects and they were recorded in front of a live studio audience and broadcast on the local PBS TV station. He wrote and/or adapted all of the radio plays that were broadcast there. I would love to be involved in these in the future. If you wish, I can contact him about the rights of any of his scripts. https://watch.ktwu.org/video/theater-mind-radio-drama-hound-baskervilles/

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