The Big Broadcast of 1938!

So I realize that I haven't posted about this in my LJ at all, but I'm acting in the production of The Big Broadcast of 1938 at the Somerville Theatre(!!!) this weekend.

Opening night has come and gone, but there are still three shows left: Friday (30 Oct) 8pm, and Saturday 2pm & 8pm. This is a radio drama, done before (you,) a live studio audience. There's a band, there's foley artists, there are actors (including me), and many more. There's a variety show! There are alien invaders! It's great show.

paraphrasing coraline:
Note: Come early. It's a "soft start" so there are things onstage (and in the audience) before the official "start" time. That includes one of Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band's big songs.

Got all that? Good.

I could go on and on about how much this production means to me, but I'm going to let someone else give you a good start.

Quiet please. We're live in five... four.... three... (two).... (one).....

And therein lies the magic.
Tens of thousands of people out there, listening,
Each envisioning their own motion picture of the mind.

And that is what we give our audience... we give them dreams.
We give them towers and landscapes, secrets and revelations.
We give them a warm hearth in the dark, or a cold shiver up their spine.

And we do it all here, live, on the sparest of threadbare budgets
With a troupe of actors who, underpaid and under-rehearsed and overwhelmed,
Have yet to learn that this simply
Cannot
Be done.

Victor Comstock, Remember WENN