Our Current Production - May 11 - May 27, 2012

May 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26  8:00 pm and May 13, 20, 27  3:00 pm

                                                     

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The 1940's Radio Hour
A Musical by Walton Jones
Director - Ron Dempsey

Assistant Director - Jennifer Tacbas

Producer - Joyce Ledingham


Picture
A different time is evoked in this marvelously theatrical and winning show, a live broadcast of a The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade from the Hotel Astor's Algonquin Room on December 21, 1942. The spirit of that bygone era when the world was at war and pop music meant "Strike Up the Band" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" (both are in this show) is accurately captured as the harassed producer copes with a drunk lead singer, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mike, the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, and the trumpet playing sound effects man who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller.  This play is The Island Players' Board of Directors choice.


Meet The Cast

Character Name

Pops Bailey
Stan
Clifton A. Feddington
Zoot Doubleman
Wally Fergusson
Lou Cohn
Johnny Cantone
Ginger Brooks
Connie Miller
B.J. Gibson
Neal Tilden
Ann Collier
Geneva Lee Brown
Biff Baker		 Cast Member

Randy Gann
Al Ledingham
Ron Dempsey
John Harper
Cormac Kavanaugh
Ed Cheshire
Eddie Roberts
Suzanne Tilghman
Ashley Stewart
Travis Crosby
Jeff Dempsey
Dee Taylor
Abby Loftus
Larry Barwick

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