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A 1940's Radio Christmas Carol
Date and Time
Thursday Dec 5, 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM ESTFriday, Oct 11 @7:30
Saturday, Oct 12 @7:30
Sunday, Oct 13 @2pm
Thursday, Oct 17 @7:30
Friday, Oct 18 @7:30
Saturday, Oct 19 @7:30
Sunday, Oct 20 @2pm
Thursday, Oct 24@7:30
Friday, Oct 25@7:30
Saturday, Oct 26@7:30
Sunday, Oct 27@2pmLocation
Granite Theatre
1 Granite St
Westerly, RI 02891Fees/Admission
Youth $30.00
Seniors: $32.50
Adults: $35.00Website
Description
Book and Music by Walton Jones, David Wohl, and Faye Greenberg
The long-awaited sequel to the popular The 1940's Radio Hour. It's Christmas Eve, 1943, and the Feddington Players are now broadcasting from a hole-in-the-wall studio in Newark, NJ, and set to present their contemporary "take" on Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
Whether it's the noisy plumbing, missed cues, electrical blackouts, or the over-the-top theatrics of veteran actor, but radio novice, William St. Claire, this radio show is an entertaining excursion into the mayhem and madness of a live radio show. St. Claire's escalating foibles and acting missteps propel the show to a simultaneously comedic and heart-wrenching dramatic climax: St. Claire has an on-air breakdown, and begins to connect his own life with that of the classic Dickens tale. In order to "save the show," the company improvises an ending to Charles Dickens' classic as a film noir mystery, featuring a hardboiled detective, a femme fatale, and an absurd rescue of Tiny Tim (and the Lindbergh baby) from the clutches of a Hitler-esque villain named Rudolf!
