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TURN YOUR RADIO ON 2015
The Hillcrest Players got the theatre bug again in 2015 when we presented Turn Your Radio On!, dinner theatre with a twist. This blast from the past transported audiences back to the 1930s & ‘40s with music, period skits and ads, ending with a “live” episode of that radio drama classic The Green Hornet. Cast members (and sisters) Anne White and Sandra MacDonald found a skit Silence, Please! published in 1928 that their mother Fran Shaw had performed in locally in the early ‘30s. This one act also starred Elizabeth and Thane LeLacheur. Director Melissa Mullen created a Montague style Green Hornet script in which publisher Britt MacReid of the Eastern Graphical, along with his side kick Kato, unmasked the dastardly villain vandalizing the beloved Art Works on Main. While actors performed the drama on microphone, our foley team Rob MacLean and David White produced both recorded and live sound effects with the help of some unusual gadgets. Liz Nimmo also sang a beautiful song to her husband Jim: All the Things You Are. |
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