A LIVE holiday performance!
20 December 2023
Season 11, Episode 12L
Every year since 2013 Re-Imagined Radio has offered "A Radio Christmas Carol." It's become a community tradition, bringing joy and festivities to the seasonal holidays. This year, we are pleased to welcome the Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry, for a live performance of "A Radio Christmas Carol," in Vancouver's historic Kiggins Theatre. Yes, a live performance! We offered one last year and it was well received. So this year, the holiday magic returns! Broadcast and live stream by KXRW.FM (Vancouver, WA) and KXRY.FM (XRAY.FM, Portland, OR).
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The Willamette Radio Workshop directed by Sam A. Mowry
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"A Radio Christmas Carol" is a re-imagined radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. First published in December 1843 and never out of print since, Dickens's novel is no doubt familiar. Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser cold of heart and spirit, is tranformed by Ghosts of Christmas into a kind, generous, and compassionate man. He gives Bob Cratchit a raise and becomes a second father to Tiny Tim. The point: humanity outweighs riches, and brings redemption.
Press
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Name: A Radio Christmas Carol
Tagline: A LIVE holiday performance!
Season: 11
Episode: 12L
Description: Re-Imagined Radio presents Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry, for a live performance of "A Radio Christmas Carol," in Vancouver's historic Kiggins Theatre. Broadcast and live stream by KXRW.FM (Vancouver, WA) and KXRY.FM (XRAY.FM, Portland, OR).
Program type: Episodic
Length: 58:00
Media type: Live stage performance, recorded, radio broadcast, live stream, podcast
Performance by: Willamette Radio Workshop
Premier performance: 20 December 2023, Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA
Premier broadcast and live stream: 20 December 2022, KXRW-FM (Vancouver, WA), KXRY-FM (Portland, OR)
Recording availability: Podcast
Recording specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 256kbps
Recording name: rir-radio-christmas-carol-2023.mp3
Categories: radio, drama, documentary, performance, story, fictional, holidays
Keywords: radio drama, storytelling, documentary, christmas, willamette, workshop, kiggins
Script: Original script(s) adapted by Sam A. Mowry and Cynthia J. McGean
Producer/Host: John F. Barber
Sound Design/Music Composition: Marc Rose and Martin J. Gallagher
Our community holiday tradition continues
18 December 2023
Season 10, Episode 12R
Continuing this popular idea from the last two years, Re-Imagined Radio offers "A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. III." We sample from "Christmas Dragnet," a comedy record by Stan Freberg, and three radio programs, "The Stockings Were Hung," from The Shadow, December 24, 1939; "Christmas Gift," from The Whistler, December 23, 1951; and "Christmas Story," from Gunsmoke, December 20, 1952, to welcome the holidays and share some cheer.
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Written, Produced, and Hosted by John F. Barber
Post Production by Marc Rose
Graphics by Holly Slocum Design
As with previous iterations of our "Radio Christmas Sampler," we offer unexpected Christmas episodes from vintage radio programs. For 2023, we offer samples from a record by Stan Freberg, and three radio programs. The first begins with a laugh. The second with a whistle. The third, with a gunshot.
Christmas Dragnet
A 1953 record parody of the popular Dragnet television and radio program, by Stan Freberg and Daws Butler. Freberg was a radio and television comedian who satirized and parodied popular songs. Daws was the voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, and many other cartoon characters. Freberg (1926-2015) and Butler first collaborated on St. George and the Dragonet, a short comedy 45 rpm record single (Capitol F2596, September 21, 1953). It quickly sold over a million copies, the first comedy record ever to do so.
Their second collaboration, Christmas Dragnet, again focused on Dragnet. Freberg voiced Joe Wednesday, a take-off on the Detective Sergeant Joe Friday character, played by Jack Web. Daws voiced Frank Jones, Grudge, and the elf.
Webb created Dragnet as a police procedural radio series in 1949, producing and starring as Joe Friday in each episode until the series ended in 1957. He adapted Dragnet for television in 1952. A fan of Freberg, he gave his full approval for this parody, even coached Freberg on the dead-pan subtleties of his Dragnet character. Webb also lent the Dragnet Orchestra, conducted by Nathan Scott, who performed music arranged by Walter Schumann. Written by Freberg and Butler, the recording was released by Capital Records as a 45 rpm record single (Capitol F2671, November 30, 1953). In 1954, the title was changed to Yulenet (45 rpm single, Capitol F2986, November 22, 1954). SEE Christmas Dragnet—Stan Freberg w/Daws Butler & Orchestra for more information.
Freberg, a recording artist, voice actor, and radio and television personality, made a name, and career, for himself starting in Alhambra High School, in 1943, as a voice actor for radio shows hosted by Cliffie Stone, and heard on several radio stations in Southern California. Stone, professional name for Clifford Gilpin Snyder, was a country music singer, musician, record producer, music publisher, and radio and television personality following World War II. He was instrumental in establishing Southern California's thriving country music scene. After graduating from high school in 1944, Freberg launched a career that garnered numerous appearances, credits, and awards in cartoons, film, radio, television, and advertising over the next seventy years.
Of special note is "Stretching the Imagination," the fourth of a six-part series promoting radio created for the Station Representatives Association in 1965. "Stretching the Imagination," narrated by noted radio voice actor Paul Frees, who starred in the 1949 Green Lama radio series, features a 700-foot tall mountain of whipped cream sliding into Lake Michigan, which has been drained of water and refilled with hot chocolate. A 10-ton cherry is dropped atop the whipped cream to the cheers of 25,000 extras. Let's listen . . .
The vocal skit was reused in "Anybody Here Remember Radio?" as part of Freberg's 1966 record album, Freberg Underground! Show No. 1 (Capitol Records T 2551; Side B, Track 2, 4:25).
The six messages, collectively entitled Who Listens to Radio?, included musical bridges with vocals by Sarah Vaughn, and music arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones. The first message featured Byron Kane, the second Naomi Lewis, the third Peter Leeds, the fourth Paul Frees, and the fifth Jesse White. The sixth was a repeat of the Vaughn and Jones musical arrangement.
The Shadow
"The Stockings Were Hung"
December 24, 1939, Episode #179
Cast
Bill Johnstone as The Shadow and Lamont Cranston
Marjorie Anderson as Margo Lane
In this episode, Lamont Cranston/The Shadow and Margo Lane, work to reunite the Grover family, return their stolen family business, and assure them a fine Christmas. Margo receives a puppy from Lamont, and a helpful cab driver.
Episodes of The Shadow begin with a filtered voice, a cackling, electric laugh, and a chilling organ rendition of Camille Saint-Saëns 1872 classical composition "Omphale's Spinning Wheel."
The Shadow, as a concept, voice, and character was originally developed to boost sales of the monthly Detective Story Magazine, published by Street & Smith, a New York City publisher of comic books and inexpensive paperbacks and magazines called dime novels and pulp fiction.
Beginning July 31, 1930, a character known only as "The Shadow" was heard on the CBS radio program Detective Story Hour, narrating tales of mystery and suspense.
When radio listeners asked for a magazine about The Shadow, Street & Smith hired Walter B. Gibson to write a story to match the radio name and voice. The first issue of The Shadow Magazine went on sale April 1, 1931.
Following Detective Story Hour, "The Shadow" radio persona hosted parts of the Blue Coal Revue and appeared in advertisements for The Shadow Magazine in Love Story Hour episodes.
The Shadow disappeared from radio in March 1935, due to Street & Smith's instance that a new series be developed around the master crime-fighter character appearing in stories and novels by Walter Gibson.
Thus began The Shadow radio series, heard on the Mutual radio network, 677 episodes, from September 1937 to December 1954. Orson Welles, then 22-years-old, starred as The Shadow until his career went global after the broadcast of "The War of the Worlds," October 30, 1938.
The Whistler
"Christmas Gift"
December 23, 1951, Episode #499
In this episode a woman, working as a singer in restaurants and bars, tries to escape a murder in which she was not involved. Found by a detective, she tells her story. The detective says he was not sent to arrest her, but rather to tell her the fiance she left behind still loves her and wishes her to return. A happy Christmas ending.
Credits
Produced and directed by George W. Allen
Story by Ed Bloodworth
Music by Wilber Hatch
Marvin Miller, Announcer
Harold Swanton, writer
Berne Surrey, sound effects (created many memorable sound effects for Suspense, worked his magic for The Whistler as well)
Cast
Bill Foreman as The Whistler
William Conrad as Joe Collins
LISTEN to our tribute to William Conrad and his great radio voice. We sample from "The Abominable Snowman" (from Escape, September 13, 1953) and "Bloody Hands" (from Gunsmoke, April 2, 1955)
Betty Lou Gerson
Bill Bouchet
Marvin Miller
Brett Wood played the harmonica
Gunsmoke
"Christmas Story"
December 20, 1952, Episode #35
In this episode, US Marshall Matt Dillon, loses his horse returning to Dodge City on Christmas Eve. He meets Amos Colley, a lonely drifter. They talk about Christmas. Mr. Colley asks if he can accompany Matt Dillion back to Dodge City, meet his friends, and settle there. Merry Christmas.
Gunsmoke is one of the longest running radio dramas and arguably, radio's last great dramatic series. The praise it has earned is well deserved. The writing and acting are superb. The sound effects and background soundscapes are subtle, realistic, and immersive. The music theme, "Old Trails," aka "Boothill," composed and conducted by Rex Koury, is iconic. LISTEN to our tribute to William Conrad and his great radio voice. We sample from "The Aboninable Snowman" (from Escape, September 13, 1953) and "Bloody Hands" (from Gunsmoke, April 2, 1955)
Credits
Directed/Producer Norman McDonald
Writer Antony Ellis
Music composed and directed by Rex Cory
Cast
William Conrad as US Marshall Matt Dillon
Parley Baer as Chester
Howard MacNear as Doc
Georgia Ellis as Kitty
Lawrence Dobkin
Harry Bartell
John Dehner
Press
Special thanks to Maureen Keller, Syliva Lindman, and Brenda Alling for promoting this episode of Re-Imagined Radio.
READ their Press Release
Graphics
A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. II web poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (240 x 356)
A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. 3 landscape poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (1910 x 1080)
A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. 3 square poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (2000 x 2000)
A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. 3 full poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (2000 x 3000)
Name: A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. 3
Tagline: Our community holiday tradition continues
Season: 12
Episode: 12L
Media type: Radio broadcast, live stream, podcast
Premier broadcast and live stream: 18 December 2023, KXRW-FM (Vancouver, WA), KXRY-FM (Portland, OR)
Description: Continuing this popular idea from last year, Re-Imagined Radio offers "A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. 3." We sample from ***.
Program type: Episodic
Length: 59:00
Recording availability: Podcast
Recording specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 320kbps
Recording name: rir-radio-christmas-sampler-2023.mp3
Categories: radio, drama, documentary, performance, story, fictional, holidays
Keywords: radio drama, storytelling, documentary, christmas, jean shepherd, peter lorre, jimmy stewart, suspense, six shooter
Script: Original script(s) written/adapted, research and commentary by John F. Barber
Producer/Host: John F. Barber
Sound Design/Music Composition: Marc Rose
Our first live performance since 2020!
21 December 2022
Season 10, Episode 12
Re-Imagined Radio first offered "A Radio Christmas Carol" in 2013. Every year since we've offered some iteration of this classic story. We like to think it has become a community tradition, bringing joy and festivities to the seasonal holidays. This year, we are pleased to welcome Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry, and The Holly Jolly Singers, directed by Bennett Bailey, for a live performance of "A Radio Christmas Carol," in Vancouver's historic Kiggins Theatre. Yes, the live performance holiday magic returns. Broadcast and live stream by KXRW.FM (Vancouver, WA) and KXRY.FM (XRAY.FM, Portland, OR).
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The Willamette Radio Workshop directed by Sam A. Mowry
The Holly Jolly Singers directed by Bennett Bailey
Sam A. Mowrey as Narrator, Patriarch, Portly Gent 2, Christmas Present
Chris Porter as Scrooge
Scott Jameison as Young Scrooge, Fred, Marley's Ghost
Alan King as Bob Cratchit, Businessman 2, Topper the bachelor, Undertaker
Bruce Miles as Fezziwib, Portly Gent 1, Old Joe, Businessman 1, Peter Cratchit
Renee King as Christmas Past, Mrs. Cratchit, Mrs. Dilber
Dino de AElfweald as Mrs. Fred, Laundress, Martha Cratchit, Fan
Cindy McGean as Matriarch, Boy Ebenezer, Belle, Tiny Tim, Turkey Boy
Live Foley by David Ian and Dino de AElfweald
Live Sound and Recording by Martin John Gallagher
Stage Management by Autumn Trapani
On Site Production and Magic Lantern Show by C. Christopher Hart
Understudy by Atticus Mowry
Graphics by Holly Slocum Design
Produced and Hosted by John F. Barber
"A Radio Christmas Carol" is a re-imagined radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. First published in December 1843 and never out of print since, Dickens's novel is no doubt familiar. Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser cold of heart and spirit, is tranformed by Ghosts of Christmas into a kind, generous, and compassionate man. He gives Bob Cratchit a raise and becomes a second father to Tiny Tim. The point: humanity outweighs riches, and brings redemption.
Episode Trailer
Press
Special thanks to Maureen Keller, Syliva Lindman, and Brenda Alling for promoting this episode of Re-Imagined Radio.
READ their Press Release
Graphics
A Radio Christmas Carol web poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (240 x 356)
A Radio Christmas Carol landscape poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (1910 x 1080)
A Radio Christmas Carol square poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (2000 x 2000)
A Radio Christmas Carol full poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (2000 x 3000)
Name: A Radio Christmas Carol
Tagline: Our first live performance since 2020!
Season: 10
Episode: 12
Description: Our first live performance since 2020! We are pleased to welcome Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry, and The Holly Jolly Singers, directed by Bennett Bailey, for a live performance of "A Radio Christmas Carol," in Vancouver's historic Kiggins Theatre. Broadcast and live stream by KXRW.FM (Vancouver, WA) and KXRY.FM (XRAY.FM, Portland, OR).
Program type: Episodic
Length: 58:00
Media type: Live stage performance, recorded, radio broadcast, live stream, podcast
Performance by: Willamette Radio Workshop
Premier performance: 21 December 2022, Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA
Premier broadcast and live stream: 21 December 2022, KXRW-FM (Vancouver, WA), KXRY-FM (Portland, OR)
Recording availability: Podcast
Recording specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 320kbps
Recording name: rir-radio-christmas-carol-2022.mp3
Categories: radio, drama, documentary, performance, story, fictional, holidays
Keywords: radio drama, storytelling, documentary, christmas, willamette, workshop, holly jolly singers, kiggins
Script: Original script(s) written/adapted by Sam A. Mowry and Cynthia J. McGean
Producer/Host: John F. Barber
Sound Design/Music Composition: Marc Rose and Martin J. Gallagher
Our community holiday tradition continues
19 December 2022
Season 10, Episode 11
Continuing this popular idea from last year, Re-Imagined Radio offers "A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. II." We sample from "Red Ryder Nails The Cleveland Kid," Jean Shepherd Show, WOR Radio, New York, 24 Dec. 1970, "Back for Christmas," Suspense, 23 Dec. 1943, starring Peter Lorre and "Britt Ponset's Christmas Story," The Six Shooter, 20 Dec. 1953, starring Jimmy Stewart. The latter is a fine retelling of the classic story by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
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"Red Ryder Nails The Cleveland Kid," Jean Shepherd Show, WOR Radio, New York, 24 Dec. 1970
"Back for Christmas," Suspense, 23 Dec. 1943
"Britt Ponset's Christmas Story," The Six Shooter, 20 Dec. 1953
Curated, Produced, and Hosted by John F. Barber
Post Production by Marc Rose of Fuse Audio Design
Graphics by Holly Slocum Design
"Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder Nails The Cleveland Kid"
Jean Shepherd
WOR Radio, New York
24 Dec. 1970
Jean Shepherd, American storyteller and radio and television personality, first published this story in Playboy magazine, 1964. He reminices about growing up in Depression-era small town Indiana and Cleveland, Ohio, and how he wanted a Red Ryder Carbine Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle for Christmas. He used this and other stories from his two semi-autobiographical books, In God We Trust, All Others Must Pay Cash (Doubleday, 1966) and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories (Doubleday, 1971), to write the screenplay for A Christmas Story (1983). All the stories he used for the movie were collected in the book A Christmas Story (Crown, 2003). Shepherd is cited by some as the creator of free-form talk radio, an inspiration for Garrison Keillor, and is noted for his nightly extemporaneous monologues often based on childhood memories. See "Wannabe Inkling" for more about Shepherd.
"Back for Christmas"
Suspense
23 Dec. 1943
Starring Peter Lorre
Suspense was a radio drama series offered by the Columbia Broadcasting System from 1940 to 1962. Subtitled "radio's outstanding theater of thrills," Suspense was all about drama and suspense, and during the early years often featured leading Hollywood actors.
One was Peter Lorre. Born Lazlo Lowenstein (1904) in Hungry, Lorre began his acting career in Vienna. He moved to Berlin, where he appeared as a serial killer in M a 1931 film directed by Fritz Lang, famous for the 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film Metropolitan.
When the Nazis took over Germany in 1933, Lorre sought refuge in Paris, and then London. There, in 1934, he appeared in the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Man Who Knew Too Much. After that, Lorre settled in Hollywood, where he found featured roles in crime, mystery, and detective movies. Perhaps the two most notable of Lorre's Hollywood films were The Maltese Falcon in 1941, and Casablanca in 1942.
Lorre's distinctive voice was also heard on radio. In fact, more people might know Peter Lorre for his radio appearances than his films. Between 1936 and 1964, he made 143 radio appearances including comedy programs, radio drama, and popular genre programs. In the same period he appeared in only 68 films.
For this episode of Re-Imagined Radio we sample "Back for Christmas," the 23 Dec. 1943 episode of Suspense. "Back for Christmas" was produced and directed by William Spier (SPEER) from the original short story by John Collier, first published in The New Yorker magazine, 7 October 1939.
Lorre voices the part of Hubert Schumacher, a henpecked British botany professor. He and his wife, Hermione, plan a end-of-year trip to America where he will give a series of lectures. Hermionie tells friends they will be back for Christmas. But Lorre has another plan for his wife: murder, and then an extended stay in America with his new wife, the young, adoring Miss Markham. But, his perfect plans unravel in fiendish ways.
"Britt Ponset’s Christmas Carol"
The Six Shooter
20 Dec. 1953, episode 14
Starring Jimmy Stewart
From the introduction . . . "The man in the saddle is angular and long-legged. His skin is sun-died brown. The gun in his holster is gray steel and rainbow mother of pearl, its handle unmarked. People call them both "The Six Shooter." His real name is Britt Ponset, the Texas plainsman who wandered through the Western territories leaving behind a trail of still remembered legends."
Created by Frank Burt, who wrote many of the episodes including this one, The Six Shooter lasted only one season, 39 episodes, September 20, 1953 – June 24, 1954. Episodes ranged from Western drama to comedy. Each episode starred Hollywood movie star Jimmy Stewart as Britt Ponset, a wandering cowboy in the last days of the American West.
Stewart's distinctive drawl and everyman persona were featured in 80 files from 1935-1991. His breakthrough came in 1938 with a part in Frank Capra's comedy You Can't Take It With You. In 1939, working again with Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart played a virtuous man who becomes a United States Senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his 1940 performance in The Philadelphia Story with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.
Then there was It's a Wonderful Life, also in 1940, working again with Frank Capra. Based loosely on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, It's a Wonderful Life became Stewart's defining film role and a Christmas classic.
In these films, Stewart played characters with a strong sense of morality, a characteristic he exhibited in his personal life as well. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him third on its list of the greatest American male actors.
Jimmy Stewart is also noted for his radio acting. He appeared several times on the Lux Radio Theatre reprising his movie roles for radio. The Six Shooter was Jimmy Stewart's only recurring leading role in radio, and remains one of the best examples of the adult western genre. The term "adult western" speaks to combining contemporary psychological themes and traditional Western motifs to examine the deeper character motivations and to inform the plot. Both Gunsmoke and The Six Shooter are excellent examples.
Graphics
A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. II web poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (240 x 356)
A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. II landscape poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (1910 x 1080)
A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. II square poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (2000 x 2000)
A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. II full poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (2000 x 3000)
Name: A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. II
Tagline: Our community holiday tradition continues
Season: 10
Episode: 11
Media type: Radio broadcast, live stream, podcast
Premier broadcast and live stream: 19 December 2022, KXRW-FM (Vancouver, WA), KXRY-FM (Portland, OR)
Description: Continuing this popular idea from last year, Re-Imagined Radio offers "A Radio Christmas Sampler Vol. II." We sample from "Red Ryder Nails The Cleveland Kid" (Jean Shepherd Show, WOR Radio, New York, 24 Dec. 1970), "Back for Christmas" (Suspense, 23 Dec. 1943, starring Peter Lorre ), and "Britt Ponset's Christmas Story" (The Six Shooter, 20 Dec. 1953, starring Jimmy Stewart). The latter is a fine retelling of the classic story by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
Program type: Episodic
Length: 59:00
Recording availability: Podcast
Recording specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 320kbps
Recording name: rir-radio-christmas-sampler-2022.mp3
Categories: radio, drama, documentary, performance, story, fictional, holidays
Keywords: radio drama, storytelling, documentary, christmas, jean shepherd, peter lorre, jimmy stewart, suspense, six shooter
Script: Original script(s) written/adapted, research and commentary by John F. Barber
Producer/Host: John F. Barber
Sound Design/Music Composition: Marc Rose
Our community holiday tradition continues, with a twist
20 December 2021
Season 09, Episode 12
With COVID restrictions still in place, this year we try something different. Re-Imagined Radio presents "A Radio Christmas Sampler" featuring selections from Christmas episodes of Suspense, Rocky Fortune, The Damon Runyon Theatre, The Jack Benny Program, Bing Crosby and The Kraft Music Hall, Vic and Sade, and the 2020 recorded performance of "A Radio Christmas Carol" by Metropolitan Performing Arts. Broadcast and live stream by KXRW.FM (Vancouver, WA) and KXRY.FM (XRAY.FM, Portland, OR).
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"A Radio Christmas Carol" by Metropolitan Performing Arts," 2020
"Vic’s Christmas Card List," from Vic and Sade, 1939
"Dancing Dan’s Christmas," from The Damon Runyon Theatre, 1949
"Decorating the Christmas Tree," from The Jack Benny Program, 1951
"Department Store Santa," from Rocky Fortune, 1953
"A Korean Christmas Carol," from Suspense, 1959
Bing Crosby and The Kraft Music Hall, December 12, 1944
Curated, Produced, and Hosted by John F. Barber
Post Production by Marc Rose of Fuse Audio Design
Social Media by Regina Carol Social Media Management
Graphics by Holly Slocum Design
A scene with Scrooge begins "A Radio Christmas Sampler." Jeffrey Puukka voices Scrooge. Another scene with Tiny Tim closes the episode. Greg Shilling voices Tiny Tim. Both are sampled from the 2020 Re-Imagined Radio broadcast of "A Radio Christmas Carol" with Metropolitan Performing Arts.
Selections from "Vic’s Christmas Card List," from the radio series Vic and Sade, created and written by Paul Rhymer and broadcast five days a week from 1932-1944, feature Rhymer’s unique comedic style and outrageous character names. In this sample from a December 1939 episode, Victor Gook, a bookkeeper for Plant 14 of the Consolidated Kitchenware Company, Sade, his homebody wife, and Rush, their adopted son discuss why Vic has to send Christmas cards to people he rarely, if ever, meets.
Our sampling of "Dancing Dan’s Christmas," speaks to how, at Christmas, we may chart a new course for our lives. It’s from the March 13, 1949 episode of The Damon Runyon Theatre, a year long series featuring dramatizations of stories by the author Damon Runyon set against the backdrop of New York City. John Brown narrates as Broadway, a small time criminal with a heart of gold. His story has warmth and appeal.
"Decorating the Christmas Tree," proves a shocking experience for Jack Benny, host of the 23 December 1951 Christmas episode of The Jack Benny Program.
"Department Store Santa" samples a performance by Frank Sinatra, the singer and musical artist from the 22 December 1953 episode of his little-known radio series, Rocky Fortune. Sinatra plays Rocky Fortune, a footloose young gentleman who accepts odd jobs. Here he is a part-time Santa Claus in a downtown department store. Sinatra is street wise and hep talkin’ but he’s just the man to deal with the robberies and help out a young girl who wants a particular Christmas gift, and her older, attractive sister.
"Korean Christmas Carol" considers, from a paranormal perspective, being away from family and friends at Christmas, in our sample from the 20 December 1959 episode of Suspense. Bill Lipton narrates.
"A Radio Christmas Sampler" closes with a joyful rendition of "Jingle Bells" by Bing Crosby and others sampled from the 12 December 1944 episode of Bing Crosby and The Kraft Music Hall.
Metropolitan Performing Arts, of Vancouver, WA, provide Christmas songs throughout.
Press
Special thanks to Maureen Keller, Syliva Lindman, and Brenda Alling for promoting this episode of Re-Imagined Radio.
READ their Press Release
Graphics
A Radio Christmas Sampler web poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (240 x 356)
A Radio Christmas Sampler landscape poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (820 x 356)
A Radio Christmas Sampler square poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (2000 x 2000)
A Radio Christmas Sampler full poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (2000 x 3000)
Name: A Radio Christmas Carol
Tagline: Our community holiday tradition continues, with a twist
Season: 09
Episode: 12
Description: With COVID restrictions still in place, this year we try something different. Re-Imagined Radio presents "A Radio Christmas Sampler" featuring selections from Christmas episodes of Suspense, Rocky Fortune, The Damon Runyon Theatre, The Jack Benny Program, Bing Crosby and The Kraft Music Hall, Vic and Sade, and the 2020 recorded performance of "A Radio Christmas Carol" by Metropolitan Performing Arts. Broadcast and live stream by KXRW.FM (Vancouver, WA) and KXRY.FM (XRAY.FM, Portland, OR).
Program type: Episodic
Length: 58:00
Media type: Radio broadcast, live stream, podcast
Premier broadcast and live stream: 20 December 2021, KXRW-FM (Vancouver, WA), KXRY-FM (Portland, OR)
Recording availability: Podcast
Recording specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 320kbps
Recording name: rir-radio-christmas-sampler-2021.mp3
Categories: radio, drama, documentary, performance, story, fictional, holidays
Keywords: radio drama, storytelling, documentary, christmas, metropolitan, perform, art, suspense, rocky fortune, damon runyon, jack benny, bing crosby, vic and sade
Script: Original script(s) written/adapted, research and commentary by John F. Barber
Producer/Host: John F. Barber
Sound Design/Music Composition: Marc Rose
Our community holiday tradition continues
24 December 2020
Season 08, Episode 03
Re-Imagined Radio presents Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," our radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. COVID precautions prevent a live performance. So, instead, we offer a special, two-hour broadcast and live stream by KXRW.FM (Vancouver, WA) and KXRY.FM (XRAY.FM, Portland, OR).
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Part 1
Part 2
Julie Steinbrenner as Narrator
Jeffrey Puukka as Ebenezer Scrooge
Will Johnson as Bob Cratchit and 2nd Man
Kristen Heller as Charity Gentleman
Greg Shilling as Nephew Fred and Tiny Tim
Jason Weed as Ghost of Marley, Ghost of Christmas Present, Fezziwig, Man on Street, and 1st Man
Barbara Richardson as Ghost of Christmas Past and Goose Person
Kristin Heller as Belle, Kristin Heller, and Begger on Street
Will Johnson as Young Scrooge
Barbara Richardson as Martha Cratchit
Ghost of Christmas Future (a non-speaking part)
Directed by Barbara Richardson
Sound Design by John Barber
Post Production by Martin John Gallagher
Social Media and Graphic Design by Holly Slocum
Produced and Directed by John Barber
Press
Special thanks to Maureen Keller, Syliva Lindman, and Brenda Alling for promoting this episode of Re-Imagined Radio.
READ their Press Release
WSU Vancouver Partners with Re-Imagined Radio for Holiday Tradition, The Reflector, 18 Dec. 2020.
Re-Imagined Radio Performances, Visit Vancouver USA, 11 Dec. 2020.
Hewitt, Scott. For Clark County Performing Groups, The Show Must Go On(line). The Columbian, 3 Dec. 2020, pp. B1, B5.
Graphics
A Radio Christmas Carol landscape poster by Holly Slocum, Holly Slocum Design (1920 x 1080)
Name: A Radio Christmas Carol
Tagline: Our community holiday tradition continues
Season: 08
Episode: 03
Media type: Radio broadcast, live stream, podcast
Performance by: Metropolitan Performing Arts
Premier broadcast and live stream: 24 December 2020, KXRW-FM (Vancouver, WA), KXRY-FM (Portland, OR)
Description: Re-Imagined Radio presents Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers performing a special two-hour iteration of "A Radio Christmas Carol," our radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Broadcast and live stream on KXRW.FM (Vancouver, WA) and KXRY.FM (XRAY.FM, Portland, OR).
Program type: Episodic
Length: 01:58:00
Recording availability: Podcast
Recording specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 320kbps
Recording name: rir-radio-christmas-carol-2020.mp3
Categories: radio, drama, documentary, performance, story, fictional, holidays
Keywords: radio drama, storytelling, documentary, metropolitan, perform, art
Script: Original script(s) written/adapted, research and commentary by John F. Barber
Producer/Host: John F. Barber
Sound Design: Martin J. Gallagher
18 December 2019
Season 07, Episode 05
Re-Imagined Radio presents Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," our radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA. Audience count: 250. Broadcast and streamed live on KXRW.FM (Vancouver, WA) and KXRY.FM (XRAY.FM, Portland, OR).
Apologies. No recording available of this performance.
John Barber as Narrator, Fezziwig, and Begger on Street
Jeffrey Puukka as Ebenezer Scrooge
Greg Shilling as Bob Chartchit
Derek Nolan as Charity Gentlemen
Ethan Radcliff as Nephew Fred and 1st Man
Bob Meek as Ghost of Marley and 2nd Man
Arianna Dorenbosch as Ghost of Christmas Past and Young Girl with Cratchit family
Rebekah Hetrick as Belle and Martha Cratchit
Derek Nolan as Young Scrooge
Larry Taylor as Ghost of Christmas Present and Man on Street
Laura Hankins as Mrs. Cratcit
Rylan Lewis as Tiny Tim and Goose Person
Directed and Produced by John Barber
Sound Design by John Barber
Promotional Graphics by Laura Evancich
Photography by Steve Hart
Name: A Radio Christmas Carol
Tagline: Our community holiday tradition continues
Season: 07
Episode: 05
Description: Re-Imagined Radio presents Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," our radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA. Broadcast and streamed live on KXRW.FM (Vancouver, WA) and KXRY.FM (XRAY.FM, Portland, OR)
Program type: Episodic
Length: 58:00
Media type: Live stage performance
Performance by: Metropolitan Performing Arts
Premier performance: 18 December 2019, Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA
Premier broadcast and live stream: 18 December 2019, KXRW-FM (Vancouver, WA), KXRY-FM (Portland, OR)
Recording availability: No recording available
Categories: radio, drama, documentary, performance, story, fictional, holidays
Keywords: radio drama, storytelling, documentary, christmas, metropolitan, perform, art, kiggins
Script: Original script(s) written/adapted, research and commentary by John F. Barber
Producer/Host: John F. Barber
Sound Design: John F. Barber
Our community holiday tradition continues
20 December 2018
Season 06, Episode 05
Re-Imagined Radio presents Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," our radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA. Audience count: 270. Broadcast and streamed on KXRW.FM (Vancouver, WA) and KXRY.FM (XRAY.FM, Portland, OR).
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Press
Special thanks to Maureen Keller, Syliva Lindman, and Brenda Alling for promoting this episode of Re-Imagined Radio.
READ their Press Release
"A Radio Christmas Carol." The Columbian, Weekend Section, 14 Dec. 2018, p. 26.
Graphics
A Radio Christmas Carol graphics by Betsy Hanrahan (300 x 225)
Photography by N.E.H. Photography
Name: A Radio Christmas Carol
Tagline: Our community holiday tradition continues
Season: 06
Episode: 05
Description: Re-Imagined Radio presents Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," our radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA. Broadcast and streamed on KXRW.FM (Vancouver, WA) and KXRY.FM (XRAY.FM, Portland, OR).
Program type: Episodic
Length: 59:00
Media type: Live stage performance, recorded, radio broadcast, live stream, podcast
Performance by: Willamette Radio Workshop
Premier performance: 20 December 2018, Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA
Premier broadcast and live stream: 20 December 2018, KXRW-FM (Vancouver, WA), KXRY-FM (Portland, OR)
Recording availability: Podcast
Recording specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 320kbps
Recording name: rir-radio-christmas-carol-2019.mp3
Categories: radio, drama, documentary, performance, story, fictional/, holidays
Keywords: radio drama, storytelling, documentary, christmas, metropolitan, perform, arts, kiggins
Script: Original script(s) written/adapted, research and commentary by John F. Barber
Producer/Host: John F. Barber
Sound Design/: John F. Barber
Our community holiday tradition continues
20 December 2017
Season 05, Episode 03
Re-Imagined Radio presents Metropolitan Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Performing Arts Carolers, The Juleps, and other community volunteers performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," our radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA. Audience count: 320.
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Directed by Sam A. Mowry
Promotional Graphics by Barbara Richardson
Produced by John F. Barber
Press
Special thanks to Maureen Keller, Syliva Lindman, and Brenda Alling for promoting this episode of Re-Imagined Radio.
READ their Press Release
Hewitt, Scott. The Sound of Scrooge: Vancouver Group Steps Up To Keep "A Radio Christmas Carol" on the Air The Columbian, 15 Dec. 2017, pp. D1, 2.
Graphics
A Radio Christmas Carol social media poster by Barbara Richardson, Metropolitan Performing Arts, (145 x 145)
Photography by N.E.H. Photography
Name: A Radio Christmas Carol
Tagline: Our community holiday tradition continues
Season: 05
Episode: 03
Description: Re-Imagined Radio presents Metropolitan Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Performing Arts Carolers, The Juleps, and other community volunteers performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," our radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA.
Program type: Episodic
Length: 01:19:00
Media type: Live stage performance, recorded
Performance by: Willamette Radio Workshop
Premier performance: 20 December 2017, Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA
Recording availability: Podcast
Recording specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 320kbps
Recording name: rir-radio-christmas-carol-2017.mp3
Categories: radio, drama, documentary, performance, story, fictional, holidays
Keywords: radio drama, storytelling, documentary, christmas, metropolitan, perform, art, kiggins
Script: Original script(s) written/adapted, research and commentary by John F. Barber
Producer/Host: John F. Barber
Sound Design: John F. Barber
Our community holiday tradition continues
21 December 2016
Season 04, Episode 04
Re-Imagined Radio presents the Willamette Radio Workshop performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," a radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA. Audience count: 300+. Rather than paid admissions, audience members donated non-perishable food items for The Clark County Food Bank. Donations of 763 pounds of food and $325.00 provided 2,228 meals for hungry families in Clark County.
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Directed by Sam A. Mowry
Promotional Graphics by Sam A. Mowry
Produced by John F. Barber
Press
Special thanks to Maureen Keller, Syliva Lindman, and Brenda Alling for promoting this episode of Re-Imagined Radio.
READ their Press Release
Hewitt, Scott. Willamette Radio Workshop To Present 'A Christmas Carol' at Kiggins. The Columbian, 11 Dec. 2016.
Hewitt, Scott. The Sounds of Scrooge Come To Life. The Columbian, 17 Dec. 2016, pp. D1, D2.
Graphics
A Radio Christmas Carol 2016 social media poster by Sam A. Mowry (459 x 230)
A Radio Christmas Carol 2016 web poster by Sam A. Mowry (240 x 356)
Name: A Radio Christmas Carol
Tagline: Our community holiday tradition continues
Season: 04
Episode: 04
Description: Re-Imagined Radio presents the Willamette Radio Workshop performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," a radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA.
Program type: Episodic
Length: 01:03:00
Media type: Live stage performance, recorded
Performance by: Willamette Radio Workshop
Premier performance: 21 December 2016, Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA
Recording availability: Podcast
Recording specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 320kbps
Recording name: rir-radio-christmas-carol-2016.mp3
Categories: radio, drama, documentary, performance, story, fictional, holidays
Keywords: radio drama, storytelling, documentary, christmas, willamette, workshop, kiggins
Script: Original script(s) written/adapted by Cynthia J. McGean and Sam A. Mowry
Producer/Host: John F. Barber
Sound Design/Music Composition: Marc Rose and Martin J. Gallagher
Our community holiday tradition continues
16 December 2015
Season 03, Episode 04
Re-Imagined Radio presents the Willamette Radio Workshop performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," a radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA.
Use the "Follow" button to download our RSS feed, and/or connect to our Spotify podcast page.
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Directed by Sam A. Mowry
Promotional Graphics by Kate Palermini
Produced by John F. Barber
Press
Hewitt, Scott. Christmas on the Radio. The Columbian, 11 Dec. 2015.
Graphics
A Radio Christmas Carol 2015 web poster by by Kate Palermini (240 x 356)
Social Media
Facebook eventpage.
Name: A Radio Christmas Carol
Tagline: Our community holiday tradtion continues
Season: 03
Episode: 04
Description: Re-Imagined Radio presents the Willamette Radio Workshop performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," a radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA.
Program type: Episodic
Length: 01:13:00
Media type: Live stage performance, recorded
Performance by: Willamette Radio Workshop
Premier performance: 16 December 2015, Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA
Recording availability: Podcast
Recording specs: Audio, MP3, stereo, 44.1Hz, 320kbps
Recording name: rir-radio-christmas-carol.mp3
Categories: radio, drama, documentary, performance, story, fictional, holidays
Keywords: radio drama, storytelling, documentary, christmas, willamette, workshop, kiggins
Script: Original script(s) written/adapted by Cynthia J. McGean and Sam A. Mowry
Producer/Host: John F. Barber
Sound Design/Music Composition: Marc Rose and Martin J. Gallagher
Our community holiday tradition continues
18 December 2014
Season 02, Episode 03
RE-Imagined Radio presents the Willamette Radio Workshop performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," a radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, Washington.
Sorry. No recording is available of this performance.
Curtis Hanson as Scrooge
with Cindy McGean, Chris Porter, Renne King, Alyson Ayn Osborn, and Sam A. Mowry
Directed by Sam A. Mowry
Live Sound by D. Neil Blake and Phillip Bursch
Projections by Joe Medina
Promotional Graphics by Sam A. Mowry
Produced by John F. Barber
Press
WSUV Brings Program, Artwork To Downtown. The Columbian, 13 Dec. 2014.
Graphics
A Radio Christmas Carol 2014 web poster by Sam A. Mowry (240 x 356)
Social Media
Facebook event page.
Name: A Radio Christmas Carol
Tagline: Our community holiday tradition continues
Season: 02
Episode: 03
Description: Re-Imagined Radio presents Willamette Radio Workshop performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," a radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA.
Program type: Episodic
Length: ~01:00:00
Media type: Live stage performance, no recording
Performing group: Willamette Radio Workshop
Premier performance: 18 December 2014, Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA
Recording: No recording available
Categories: radio, drama, documentary, performance, story, fictional, holidays
Keywords: radio drama, storytelling, documentary, christmas, willamette, workshop, kiggins
Script: Original script(s) written/adapted by Cynthia J. McGean and Sam A. Mowry
Producer/Host: John F. Barber
Sound Design/Music Composition: Marc Rose and Martin J. Gallagher
19 December 2013
Season 01, Episode 02
Re-Imagined Radio presents the Willamette Radio Workshop and other community volunteers performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," a radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, Washington.
No recording is available of this performance.
Directed by Sam A. Mowry
Promotional Graphics by Sam A. Mowry
Produced by John F. Barber
Name: A Radio Christmas Carol
Tagline: Our community holiday tradition begins
Season: 01
Episode: 02
Description: Re-Imagined Radio presents Willamette Radio Workshop performing "A Radio Christmas Carol," a radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA.
Program type: Episodic
Length: ~01:00:00
Media type: Live stage performance, no recording
Performing group: Willamette Radio Workshop
Premier performance: 19 December 2013, Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, WA
Recording: No recording available
Categories: radio, drama, documentary, performance, story, fictional, holidays
Keywords: radio drama, storytelling, documentary, christmas, willamette, workshop, kiggins
Script: Original script(s) written/adapted by Cynthia J. McGean and Sam A. Mowry
Producer/Host: John F. Barber
Sound Design/Music Composition: Marc Rose and Martin J. Gallagher