Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: At the Mountains of Madness brings Lovecraft’s tale to life as it might have been adapted for radio during his lifetime. In the style of The War of the Worlds and The Shadow, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre dramatizes HPL’s story with a cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and original music by Troy …
Every Saturday, just before 5 p.m., the crowd in the Fitzgerald Theater settles down and the ON AIR light flashes red and “A Prairie Home Companion” goes out live coast-to-coast on the radio airwaves into the homes and cares of its countless fans, including the signature “News from Lake Wobegon” monologue, a Guy Noir Private Eye thriller, a …
Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood. Written and Directed by Jamison Selby. Two compact disks. In this all-new, one-hour forty six minute audio drama. “The original cast reunites for the first-every sequel to the classic Gothic suspense television series Dark Shadows. Following the passing of matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, family and close friends gather at the great estate of …
Jim & Marian Jordan star as Fibber and Molly McGee, holding down the homefront in these war year episodes. Fighting the battle of Wistful Vista involves volunteering for the Red Cross, dealing with shortages, contributing to scrap metal and War Bond drives, and sending letters by V-Mail…plus keeping an eye out for spies and an ear out for …
Any comedian can be funny in the studio, but domestic comedy is usually considered the province of actors who happen to do comedy. Jack Benny straddled the two roles for most of his career — the suave, witty master of ceremonies standing on stage in front of a curtain one moment the put-upon householder tormented by a bumptious …
William Bendix is back as Brooklyn expatriate and aircraft riveter Chester A. Riley. This well-meaning, if lunk-headed, family man is fiercely loyal, profoundly loving, and impossibly stubborn. Riley struggles to get ahead at work, struggles to be a role model for his son, struggles to read the tea leaves of his daughter’s love life…all while his wife …
Lucille Ball (The Best of Old Time Radio/Legendary Performers)
The Smithsonian Institution and Radio Spirits proudly present the classic radio broadcasts that made Lucille Ball a star and led to the creation of her classic television series I Love Lucy. Lucy’s versatility is showcased with dramatic roles on Suspense and Lux Radio Theatre and comedic performances of the Abbott and Costello Show, The Gulf Screen Guild …
During 1987-9 Crow was engaged as a backing singer on Michael Jackson’s huge ‘Bad’ world tour , and worked in a similar capacity for other major artists including George Harrison, Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, Bonnie Raitt and Don Henley; the latter claimed she’s one of the best female singers there is right now, period, bar none. Sheryl’s own …
In the realm of unforgettable radio voices, there is one that stands head and shoulders above all others — one distinctive voice that could never be convincingly duplicated, one that brought its owner undreamed of success. It was a voice of sandpaper and gravel and rusty scrap iron, rasping over a nation’s loudspeakers for more than thirty years. …
Jack Benny was a fearless combat pilot, a brilliant-but-troubled surgeon, the terror of the high seas, and the hero of every conceivable caper. There was nothing Jack Benny couldn’t do, or hadn’t done. To hear him tell it, anyway. The classic Benny persona fit hilariously into hundreds of ridiculous roles, from rough-and-ready adventurers to athletic heroes to …