Rehearsals are done and we’re preparing our 2020 “Radio Show” for release on October 30 & 31 on our Youtube channel. Visit our Facebook page for details on how to be part of our audience for this year’s double evening of Horror & Suspense!
THE CAST & THE STORIES
Please meet our four scary stories and the actors that will bring them to you via the magic of radio.
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS by H. G. Wells
Adapted for radio by Howard Koch
It seems just like an ordinary October afternoon…until green flashing stars start falling to earth. H. G. Wells’s 1897 novel was adapted and updated to 1938 for The Mercury Theatre on the Air. Legend has it that the story was so compelling and its mimicking of the conventions of radio news so effective that some listeners believed it was an actual news broadcast. Fortunately, in 2020, we no longer have to worry about people confusing real news with outlandish made-up fantasies!
CAST:
| Narrator | Sam Amenn |
| Announcer | Kyle Nolla |
| Announcer 2 | Ragan Mozee |
| Announcer 3 | Meg Glassco |
| Philips | Mela Woods |
| Pierson | Derek Miller |
| Policeman | Marilyn Cavicchia |
| Wilmuth | Margaret Elise Richards |
| Brigadier General Smith | Natasha Friedman |
| Harry McDonald | Elizabeth Horne |
| Captain Lansing | Paul Baker |
| Secretary of the Interior | Marilyn Cavicchia |
| Officer | Christopher Chwedyk |
| Gunner | Rob Amenn |
| Observer | Grace Kim |
| Commander | Sam Amenn |
| Operator 1 | Elizabeth Horne |
| Operator 2 | Ruth Kadanoff |
| Operator 3 | Marilyn Cavicchia |
| Operator 4 | Nitsana Lazerus |
| Operator 5 | Katie Hendricks |
| Stranger | Sam Gray |
THE TURN OF THE SCREW by Henry James
Adapted for radio for Ronald Coleman’s Favorite Story, 1949
Henry James’s 1898 novella concerns a young governess who is hired to care for two orphaned children living at an English country estate. Cut off from help and advice, she comes to believe that the children are being haunted, and possibly possessed. Is she saving them from the forces of evil…or becoming their tormentor herself?
Cast:
| Douglas | Daniel Willens |
| Friend | Ruth Kadanoff |
| Governess | Leslie Browne |
| Guardian | Mike Herring |
| Mrs. Grose | Andrea Holliday |
| Flora | Julia Herring |
| Miles | Zoe Harris |
| Coleman | Ron Chafetz |
THE MACHINE STOPS by E. M. Forster
Adapted for radio by Susan Harris
In this 1909 novella, E. M. Forster imagines a strange and improbable world in which humans spend all of their time alone in their individual rooms, interacting with each other and the outside world only through the Machine. They’re nice rooms; and the Machine will bring you anything you want. Just don’t try to go outside…and don’t even think about life without the Machine.
Cast:
| Narrator | Nathan Agin |
| Vashti | Michele Heinz |
| Kuno | Leslie Halverson |
| Hapara | Katie Hendricks |
| Traveler | Tess Gundlah |
| Attendant | Meara MacGregor |
| Lecturer | Sam Amenn |
| Voice 1 | Barbara Barreno-Paschall |
| Voice 2 | Sam Amenn |
| Voice 3 | Nitsana Lazerus |
| Teledoctor | Chris Youngian-Wilson |
| Committee 1 | Ron Chafetz |
| Committee 2 | Barbara Barreno-Paschall |
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH by Edgar Allan Poe
Adapted for radio by Susan Harris
The Red Death has come to Italy and Prince Prospero and a thousand of his richest friends have fled to one of his castles to escape the plague. Inside the locked gates, they lead a carefree existence…until one night, an elaborate costume ball attracts an unwelcome guest.
Cast:
| Narrator | Shonte Segura |
| Prospero | Daniel Willens |
| Emilia | Marissa Tranquilli |
| Cesario | Rebecca Husk |
| Rodolfo | Renata McAdams |
| Musician 1 | Connie Robinson |
| Musician 2 | Rob Carhuayo |
| Reveler 1 | Katie Henricks |
| Reveler 2 | Ruth Kadanoff |
Rehearsals have begun! We look forward to working with all of you!
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