A Prairie Home Companion – The Sonic Society

Are you in southeast Iowa for the weekend? Check out The Ottumwa Courier‘s suggestions for 5 Things to Do This Weekend.

I’m assuming its in reverse order of importance because their #5 is Live Radio Drama!

From the article:

5. Laugh the night away with the Davis County Players this Friday and Saturday evening as they present a night of old-time radio with a Bloomfield twist in the tradition of “A Prairie Home Companion.” The audience gets to watch a radio show unfold right before its very eyes, complete with plays, sketches, ad parodies and fantastic music. It’s two evenings of live radio at the Iowa Theatre in Bloomfield, with the “State Line Old Time Radio Revue,” featuring five short radio plays by Broadway playwright Eric Coble as well as several additional comedy sketches, live music and much more — all under the guise of a fictional live radio broadcast on the fictional radio station, JMMG, 92.4. Showtime is 7 p.m. April 1-2. Tickets are available at Perfect Touch Wellness Center in Bloomfield or at the door before showtime.

A Prairie Home Companion‘s ultra talented Sue Scott speaks about the benefits of voice acting in Ann Arbor, and the power it provides to “shape shift” for the audience. Scott gushes, “Some voices I would never be able to sustain on a stage, because you have to project, and reach back of the house Somewhere in America, the Home Companion is coming your way. In Canada, we have our own Vinyl Cafe with Stuart McLean ,” said Scott. “For radio, the mic is right there, so you can use really intimate voices, or strange, scratchy voices I could never do for 7 or 8 performances a week on a stage. So it’s fun to find whole different category of voices. … I come from theater, but (fellow APHC actor)Tim Russell comes from radio, so we meet somewhere in the middle.”

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