As we gain deeper insight into the producers, writers, and sound engineers that brought us some of the powerful shows of the past, in our ongoing attempt to understand this medium we look at this little clip of the great director/producer Jack Johnstone talking about live radio drama and specifically how a flub was handled on Superman!
Tag: Superman!
This article on Geekscape was floating around the Internets, and we’re a little upset we didn’t see it sooner.
The author, Witney, provides a list of the top ten old time radio dramas along with links. The shows selected are in order…
10. Brave New World
9. Superman
8. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
7. Escape “Three Skeleton Key”
6. The Knox Riots
5. Ruby 4(ZBS)
4. War of the Worlds (Mercury Theatre)
3. Johnny Got His Gun
2. Moon Over Morocco (ZBS)
1. Sorry Wrong Number
So what do you think? Agree? Disagree? Write your own list in the comments! Goodness knows we have a few that would have included!
The Kiggins Theatre has become a regular destination for Willamette Radio Workshop.
“Radio is better because the pictures are better,” says Sam Mowry, Willamette Radio Workshop director and one of our all time favourite actors (catch his performance in EVP‘s Muse of Madness)
From the article: The Magic of Old Time Radio Rings Through Kiggins:
The Willamette Radio Workshop has carved itself a successful niche performing holiday and other themed shows — like “The War of the Worlds” at Halloween, “A Radio Christmas Carol” in December and “The Hobbit” for author J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday every January — but director Mowry said he loves branching out farther. Last Halloween, instead of “The War of the Words,” Willamette Radio tried two early science fiction classics, “R.U.R.” and “The Fall of the City”; and earlier in the year it was an original Superman script, locally relevant and blatantly political, about oil trains and environmental danger.
“We’re always looking for new and different things and John Barber has helped us push that boundary,” Mowry said. “This year for Women’s History Month, isn’t it great that we can do two of the greatest shows ever written for radio — and they were written by a woman?”
You can believe in the magic of radio drama as well. Willamette Radio Workshop is a little bit of fairy-dust in Portland and beyond!
Superman may soon be flying again and Dick Tracy will be speaking into his two-way radio as Kathy Mathis, director at the Brandon Town Players, looks to find actors to fill the roles of the classic OTR radio plays. Mathis plans to have the actors dressed in period garb and perform the plays on stage as written on the page.
If you’re in Brandon get the details about the new initiative in Vermont from this Times Argus article.