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The Week's Show

LIVE PERFORMANCE July 7th
"Soul Searching"
By local playwright
Susan West Chamberlin

July 14th
Neal Zweig and Curt Bessette
Perform
Songs and Stories of World War II
"...because no one should ever forget."
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Old Time Radio links, and information about our  WSCA-LP Audio Theatre Players including recording sessions,
call for scripts, etc.

I did a little parody interview
with W.C. Fields prior to a broadcast of
an audio show of his entitled "Poppy."
Listeners thought it was fun...see what you think...
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Old Time Radio History?

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Old Time Radio
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UPCOMING LOCALLY PRODUCED PROGRAMS
AND LIVE PERFORMANCES

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A VERY SPECIAL LIVE SHOW...

Neil Zweig and Curt Bessette
Perform...

World War II Songs and Stories
On July 14th

6:10 to 7:10 PM
 

" Dragnet"
The Big Parrot
Coming... August 2009
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PLEASE... if you have signed up as an Audio Theatre member, but have not provided
a voice recording sample, and wish to participate as a vocal actor, please leave a two to four
minute recording of a favorite reading, script, etc. that demonstrates your vocal  characteristics...
and if you do any dialects, please include in your sample. 

 Audio Theatre requires different voices for each character
 to help the audience keep the characters straight in their minds.

Recordings on CD can be left in the Audio Theatre mailbox
 at the station at 909 Islington St. in Portsmouth or emailed to me as an mp3 file.
Thanks!

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Your Audio Theatre host,
John Lovering
practicing with a "Golden Age of Radio"
Wind Machine!

Cast and Crew of our June 9th, 2009 Live Production of
"Medical Advice from a Horse Doctor" - a recreation of
a "Life of Riley" program form 1946.
We had a small audience of 16 people in attendance.

Rachel Bailey as Babs Riley and Chris Battye as
Simon Vanderhoffer  from our June 9, 2009 Live performance of "Medical Advice from a Horse Doctor."

Chuck Curtis as "Chester A. Riley" with
Jean Proulx as "Peg Riley" - June 9, 2009

Rachel Bailey and Chris Battye in foreground and
Donald G. Hands as Dr. Lucius Vanderhoffer
on June 9, 2009 - during our live on-air production
of "The Life of Riley"

John Suprenant as our Announcer, Dr. Lang,
and Digby "Digger" O'Dell - the local friendly
Undertaker -  Three roles.. and he did them all
with perfection!

Donald Hands helps out our Sound Effects
Technician, Melanie Lovering,  during our June 9, 2009 live
performance before a small live audience at
Portsmouth Community Radio in Portsmouth, NH.

Chuck Curtis and Susan O'Grady record "Thelma and Lewis" on April 4th, 2009

Brett Deschenes and Jonny Peiffer

Actor Dan Beaulieu is "Oliver Z. Wanderkook"

Marika Shimkus

Illustrator, Dean Diggins watches the live performance on May 5th

Gordon Sharpless lends his expertise to Sound Engineering

The Ensemble Cast of "Oliver Z. Wanderkook Moves Through New Worlds"

The cast of "The Story of a Bad Boy"
Left to Right: Cory Nitschelm, Rachel Bailey, Dan Comly,
Alex Hart, Chuck Curtis, Paul DeLuca, Augustus Gilchrist,
Donald Hands, and Alex McNair

Donald Hands played the role of Captain Nutter, The Announcer, and Prisoner #2

Sound mixing and recorded
 audio effects were done
by John Lovering

Cast of "Tom Sawyer - Chapter Six"
Left to Right
Augustus Gilchrist, Rachel Bailey, Cory Nitschelm, Chuck Curtis, Michelle Moon, Alex MacNair,
 Dan Comly

Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn!

Our audience  of about 18 people
consisted of mostly parents

Michelle Moon (Center) played "Aunt Polly" but Michelle
is also the Director of Education at Strawbery Banke in
Portsmouth and coordinated
"The Big Read" project's many events
that took place during January and February of 2009
Thank you, Michelle!

John Lovering being interviewed by WMUR-TV
 Channel 9's Jennifer Crompton
as part of a February 2005 'Chronicle' segment on Portsmouth Community Radio
(Photo:Tim Stone)

Brian Gregg plays President G.W. Bush and Sofia Piel is the voice of Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice in a short play entitled
"The Middle East" written by local
playwright, Susan West Chamberlin

Performed Live on-air on March 4, 2008

  The talented cast, and a few members of our live audience, perform our FIRST On-Air Live Production
 - The Baby Snooks and Daddy's Show" - September 14, 2005
Featuring eXtreme helen as Baby Snooks... can you tell which
actor is Baby Snooks?

The excellent cast of "The Monkey's Paw"
 during a script reading prior to recording.
Cast: Charlie Griffin, Larry Gillis, Susan Norris, Sofia Piel, Michael Deragon,
Louis Cerrato and directed by
Melanie Maxham

Chris Battye and Cayla Reddington portray "Jason" and "Helen"
in an original audio play written by John Lovering and based on
"The Geology of the Old Man of the Mountain"  by Lee Wilder of the New Hampshire Geological Survey
The idea for adapting the article to an educational radio play was contributed by Tim Stone.
Recorded at WSCA-LP Studio on April 3, 2006. 
 

From Left to Right: Eric Pearce (SFX); James C. Darling (Daddy Higgins);
Charlie Griffin (Mr. Kunkle); John Suprenant (Announcer); Emily Cherin ( Lila Mae Cornwall);
Kathy Somssich (Mommy Higgins); eXtreme Helen Ksypka (Baby Snooks and Dialog Director);
Jeff Erwin (SFX); John Lovering (Technical Director, Recorded SFX).

Cast of Gunsmoke "The Guitar" recorded October 28, 2006 - Air Date 12/26/06

(Above - Left to Right)
Chuck Curtis (Matt Dillon); Susan O'Grady (Miss Kitty); Sönke Durblut (Chester); James Sears (Short);
Bruce Allen (Doc / Narrator); Larry Gillis (Sam); Jason Bolduc (Tyler); and
below is James C. Darling as Pendel

Cast of "All for Melanie" by Billy R. Sauls during our January 27, 2007
recording session.
(L to R) Charlie Griffin, James C. Darling, Dan Comly, Sofia Piel, Jean Proulx,
Elizabeth Anderson, Chuck Curtis, Jason Bolduc, and Diane Ficarra.
Directed by James C. Darling
Recorded, Edited, Sound Effects by John Lovering

The cast of "The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet" recorded on March 24, 2007
(Left to Right:  John Suprenant, James Sears, Chuck Curtis; Mark Steeves,
Charlie Griffin, eXtreme helen Ksypka, Brian Gregg, Linda Becker

Your Audio Theatre host
retrieving  the featured Classic Radio Program from the
WSCA-LP catacombs!

WSCA-LP tugboat on her way out to the WSCA-LP Audio Theatre Buoy to retrieve a Classic Radio Program...

WSCA-LP Buoy where
a special hidden compartment
stores our Classic Radio
Programs...the location of
this buoy is not to be
disclosed. 

The seal is our WSCA-LP Watchseal,
there to protect the contents
within the buoy.

BEWARE of the WSCA-LP Official Watchdog
He has one heck of an "under bite"
or is that an "over bite" ?
Oh well, he bites!

Here is an old photo of
 me with my good friend Frank Sinatra. 
He was asking me for a few pointers on how to use the microphone!*

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Here is an old photo of  me with
 my good friend Ella Fitzgerald. 
She was asking me for a few pointers on how
she might improve on her singing style.*

Yet another old photo,
but with my good friend Louis Armstrong*
who  is responding to
a really good joke...the fact that I showed up to a black-tie affair in a blue nylon rain coat!

Last, but not least...here is my oldest "friend photo"
with Glenn Miller.  I had just told him that I thought
"In The Mood" was a catchy name for a song.*