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The 1940's Radio Hour
The 1940's Radio Hour takes the audience on a nostalgic trip down memory lane into a backdrop of the second World War, setting the stage for swinging big band music and old fashioned situation comedy of a bygone period. It takes place in a small 5000-watt New York City radio station (WOV) located in the Hotel Astor's Algonquin Room around Christmastime 1942 and is centered around a group of performers and their attempts to make it to the "big time" in show biz. There is a wide selection of stock characters of various ages such as... the harried producer, the delivery boy who aspires to stardom, the torch singer who raises temperatures in the studio, the alcoholic featured male vocalist and the kindly elderly man who has seen everything and understands everyone. The radio program, the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade, is seen through the eyes of the theatre audience who become the actual radio station audience. This fun production includes such old time greats as Blue Moon, Boogie Woogle Bugle Boy, Old Black Magic, Ain't She Sweet, Kalamazoo, Blue in the Night, I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good, I'll Be Seeing You, and Strike Up the Band.
March 19th, 20th, 26th, and 27th at 8pm; March 21st at 12:30 PM
