SHOWS

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Presented by AFTRA/SAG Senior Radio Players

Tuesday, July 20
9:00 PM — 10:00 PM
Claudia Cassidy Theater

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

The Man Who Came to Dinner (originally broadcast November 17, 1946 on the ABC Radio Network)

Sheridan Whiteside, the cantankerous but talented writer and radio personality, reluctantly accepts a dinner invitation while on a lecture tour in a small town in Ohio. His thought is to eat and run, but he slips on a patch of ice on the front steps of the Stanley house, damages a leg, and is forced to change his quick-escape plans. It turns out to be a nightmare for the host family as Whiteside takes over the household with a combination of demands, rudeness, and expensive whims. Even after the doctor reveals to Whiteside that he has misread the x-rays and the leg is fine, Whiteside bribes the doctor not to tell anyone of the changed diagnosis, so he can stay on to—in the words of critic Hal Erickson—“stage-manage the lives of everyone around him.”