SHOWS

“On a Country Road” and “Halloween”

Presented by AFTRA/SAG Senior Radio Players

Wednesday, October 07
7:00 PM — 8:30 PM
Claudia Cassidy Theater
FREE

Audiences are invited to witness the performance of classic radio scripts by voice actors, sound effects artists and, often, live musicians. The AFTRA/SAG Senior Radio Players stay faithful to the original model by having to get it right the first time--no retakes permitted.

On a Country Road
Originally broadcast November 16, 1950 on the CBS Radio Network as part of Suspense
Another tingly radio drama from—as the program’s announcer used to say—“radio’s outstanding theater of thrills—Suspense!” This one is about a couple driving home at night using a short cut on an unfamiliar road. Their radio informs them that a psychotic woman patient who has a history of murder has escaped from a nearby institution armed with a meat cleaver. Just then their car comes to a stop--out of gas--and a woman starts pounding on it and yelling, “Let me in!  Let me in!” (GULP)

Halloween
Originally broadcast November 1, 1946 on NBC as party of The Baby Snooks Show
The actress was 51 years old and playing the role of a sometimes bratty but always inquisitive little girl in a highly successful radio series.  Her name was Fanny Brice, a one-time chorus girl who went on to star in the Ziegfeld Follies, night clubs, recordings, and network radio.  In this episode, Snooks and her “daddy”, Hanley Stafford, spend a Halloween evening together. You can shrug off the plot, but the dialog is often hilarious.