For our second Act, Pete Lutz and Jeff Billard show up on stage to provide “More Bob and Ray”! Hilarity and fun for your Sunday Showcase followed by John Bell with “Danse Macabre”!
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David Ault brings back Project Audion to the stage with Larry Groebe introducing “Bad Day at Black Rock”. This show is an adaptation for radio from the 1955 MGM movie which starred Spencer Tracy. Since Lux Radio Theatre and Screen Guild Playhouse and other classic American radio series were now gone from the airwaves, THIS show was created in Australia – for the series “Caltex Theatre”.It’s a gritty hour well-spent for the first Act of Summerstock and notice United Artist regulars Pete Lutz pulling double-duty directing as well and the incredible John Bell. Tom Konkle from Mindstream Players returns as a steady player!
After our intermission, the amazingly talented Tom Konkle with his Mindstream Players bring us all new laughs with the adventurous of old with “The Reasonably Amazing Adventures of Flash Gordon #5” and “The Hairy Handed Hitchhiker”!
Dr. Mark Dreisonstok posted another stunning review in MD Theatre Guide focusing again on Rachel Pulliam’s significant works in this year’s Sonic Summerstock Playhouse!
Many of us travel to vacation destinations during the summer months. Audio plays are a wonderful way to pass the time, and two excellent, full-cast audio dramas from Sole Twin Audios fit the bill. “Short Order” is an exciting drama, somewhat in the style of film noir, and “2462” is a dystopian view of the world’s future. Both are recreations of classic radio plays from the long-running classic series, “Suspense.”
”Short Order” includes brilliant re-creations of the sounds of a fast food, casual restaurant in the 1940s, complete with bells which ring when customers enter, small paper ketchup containers on the tables, and a talkative short order cook. A customer with a severely disfigured face (expertly portrayed by Robin Robbins, who even imbues lines like “lots of ketchup” with menace) suddenly becomes a regular. The man exudes such a malevolent presence that business at the restaurant drops off considerably. Meanwhile, bad luck intrudes more and more in the home life of the restaurant’s owner, Mr. Bailey (convincingly acted by Joe Stofko). Is the worrisome customer somehow connected with Mr. Bailey’s troubles at home? If so, how?
Be sure to read the full review for more!
David Ault presents the second act from Sole Twin Audio as they perform “Fugue in C Minor” returning once again to the Summerstock stage!
Announcer – Dean T. Moody
Miss Amanda Peabody – Rhiannon McAfee
Mrs. Lizzie Chumley – Sharon Grunwald
Mr. Theodore Evans – Pete Lutz
David – Taylor Johnson
Daphne/Caller – Colette Feehan
Directed and Produced by Rachel Pulliam
Music by Ross Bernhardt /Suspense re-imaging by David Krause
Artwork by Joshua Mongardini
This week in Sonic Summerstock Playhouse’s stellar season, Pete Lutz and the Narada Radio Company return with the amazing “Twentieth Century” starring Les Marsden and Rhiannon McAfee. This classic show was originally broadcast March 24, 1939 on the Columbia Broadcast System. Stand by for Act I begins now!
This week in Sonic Summerstock Playhouse’s first act we have a new Project Audion show from Larry Groebe. Their 32nd recreation celebrates one of the Western Heroes of childhoods gone by – Red Ryder. At one point Red Ryder, his orphaned Indian pal Little Beaver, and old companion Buckskin were more popular than the Lone Ranger. This 1949 story packs horses, cattle, rainstorms, riverboats, fires, fistfights and gunfights into just thirty minutes.
Playing after the intermission for the second Act, No Soap Radio takes the stage and presents another Jack Benny Recreation, this time tackling the May 5th, 1940 episode where the gang returns to Hollywood by way of a TWA flight.
This week the Sonic Summerstock Playhouse begins its first act with Rachel Pulliam and Sole Twin Audio‘s adaptation of “The Turn of the Screw” from their Patchwork Classics series. The cast for this epic includes Sharon Grünwald as Announcer, Ross Bernhard as The Whistler, Ted Bjorndal as Douglas, Karl Nordman as The Uncle, Tanya Rich as The Governess, Fiona Mack as Mrs. Grose, Melissa Fry as Flora, Taylor Johnson as Miles, Pete Lutz as Peter Quint, Lana O’Kell as Miss Jessel, Jerry Kokich, Anusia Battersby, Fiona Thraille, Tony Francis, and as the Patchwork Classics Voices Lillian Rachel, Adam Blanford, Alexandra Macedo, Karl Werner, Larry Groebe, Gareth Bowley, Erin Suminsby, Theodore Perez, John Lingard, Caleb Bressler, and Nate James as the Jurors.
Act II of The Narada Radio Company presentation of a remake of the BBC adaptation of THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL, kicking off the 12th (?) Season of Sonic Summerstock Playhouse! Herman Wouk’s moving novel of World War Two was condensed by the author into a two-act play, which the BBC broadcast in the 1950s. This remake for Sonic Summerstock was recorded over Zoom and comprised of actors from California, Texas, Illinois, and the United Kingdom.