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Retro
Ahonui
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 Posted - 01/19/2009 : 11:52:52 AM
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This is the event I've been hinting about recently - several TP'ers will be involved, both as musicians and as performers in the play...
“CHANG APANA: HEART OF A LION” is a new, original radio play about the man who was the real-life inspiration for Charlie Chan. A police officer in Honolulu’s Chinatown district during Hawai`i's territorial days, Apana was a man small in stature but big in his community; he generally didn’t carry a firearm, but preferred a bullwhip. The “crack” of his whip became a signal to petty criminals in the district that Detective Apana was near, and it was time for them to rethink their activities!
Presented by Seattle’s American Radio Theater company, “Chang Apana: Heart of a Lion” will be performed and recorded complete with live musical accompaniment on Saturday, March 21, 2009, at 3:00 and 7:00 p.m., at Pioneer Hall, 1642 – 43rd Ave. E (in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood). Tickets (at the door) are $10.
Additional information: 206-632-1653; JJLjackson -at- aol.com
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Mark
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 01/19/2009 : 12:44:10 PM
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This is so cool.
For those of us in the boonies-- will this be made available to APR, NPR, Pacifica or anyone else?
Or, alternately, will we be able to purchase CDs?
I love radio drama. Beats the hell out of radio mime. |
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Retro
Ahonui
USA
2368 Posts |
Posted - 01/19/2009 : 1:54:44 PM
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At the moment, ART's works are generally only heard via a couple websites of old-time radio enthusiast organizations, and on the radio-reading services for the blind in Washington and Oregon. But they usually create CDs of original plays, such as this one, so I suspect they'll be available that way before too long. We're also hoping that this will be the first episode in a series based on Apana. Website that is sorely in need of updating - http://www.americanradiotheater.org/
Someday, I'll have to dig out one of the radio comedy pieces I did back in the late 1980s - NPR's live broadcast of a performance by Marcel Marceau.
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Lawrence
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 01/21/2009 : 1:05:28 PM
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NPR's live broadcast of a performance by Marcel Marceau.
Brilliant!
That is kind of like Monte Python's first ever BBC Radio broadcast of a Total Eclipse of the Sun (from Matching Tie and Handkerchief).
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Mahope Kākou...
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 01/21/2009 : 1:45:07 PM
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| I'd love to see something like this put together where TPers can contribute from all around the world through pre-recorded parts that are then assembled together into the full production. |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
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Mark
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 01/21/2009 : 3:18:03 PM
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Beats the hell out of radio mime.
Actually, I am speaking from experience. I worked with the Great Salt Lake Mime Troupe from 1974-6.
In the fall and winter of 74-75, we travelled in a great big school bus, stopping to do street theatre, school gigs, and the occasional theatre show.
To promote one of the latter, we did an on-air show for some college station in San Diego. Yep, mime on the radio. This was one instance where it is safe to say, "you really had to be there."
While I was googling a link to use with this, I stumbled across this page dedicated to my old partner in foolishness George Kugler: http://theatrex.net/theatre/george_rip.htm
George and I busked our way through Holland, England and Ireland in 1975 as "The George-o and Mark-o Show." The picture of the two of us on the website was a publicity shot for our run at the Project Arts Center in Dublin.
We parted company late that summer--he went to the Edinburgh Festival and I stayed in Ireland. I never saw him again; he stayed in Europe while I returned to the states. I learned a few years ago that he was hit by a train in 2002.
He was a truly gifted performer and I miss him dearly. |
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Retro
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 02/19/2009 : 5:39:34 PM
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BUMP.
BTW - noeau is cast in the title role (we've already gone through nine revisions of the script while he's been on O`ahu, heh-heh-heh...), and thumbstruck (who has written an original tune for our theme) & slipry1 are part of the live band for this show. In addition to coordinating the music for this, I'll also be acting in it.
Seattle-area folks, we hope you'll come and see us. (The rest of you are welcome to travel far for it, too - don't wish to exclude anyone!) |
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Ahonui
USA
2368 Posts |
Posted - 12/16/2009 : 08:07:41 AM
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EPISODE 2: CHANG APANA MIDNIGHT CLEAR - A seasonal confection from American Radio Theater, available as an internet feed on 12/17/09
Note: Several folks from the Seattle area Hawaiian music community are involved in these productions, including Al Tringali (noeau) as Chang Apana, myself (retro) as Henry Chillingsworth, and original theme music by Kory Tideman (thumbstruck).
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A new-time radio marathon will be presented in the Fred Bertelsen Old-Time-Radio Room. On Dec 17, Joy Jackson will share the fun and frivolities that transpired at the American Radio Theater’s Christmas 2009 party.
The two branches of American Radio Theater have a special tradition in December. The Lexington Kentucky chapter broadcasts a performance to their colleagues in Seattle, over the Internet, and Seattle broadcasts a performance (or two) back to them. We celebrate our fifth anniversary of broadcasts this year.
On Dec. 17, the unmodified recording of the 2009 broadcast will be played into the chat-room, as if it were live. This year, ART-Lexington will present a brand new Great Gildersleeve show, written by Mike Wheeler.
ART-Seattle will entertain with a brand-new episode of Chang Apana, written by Joy Jackson, followed by a recreation of Ethel and Albert—“Putting up the Christmas Tree”, and we’ll end the session with Vic and Sade—“Rush Shares his Plan for Christmas Presents”. It’s likely to run an hour and a half, so we’ll probably be starting about 5:30 pm Pacific (8:30 Eastern).
Be sure to stop by and listen to the fun. Dec 17, www.RadioOutofthePast.org, in the Fred Bertelsen Old-Time-Radio Room. If you haven’t dropped in before, you’ll need to download some software, so come by a little early. Click on the Fred Bertelsen room, and follow the instructions.
See you there!
=== Joy Jackson/American Radio Theater === |
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Retro
Ahonui
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Lawrence
Ha`aha`a
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Posted - 11/05/2010 : 1:01:27 PM
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That is kind of like Monte Python's first ever BBC Radio broadcast of a Total Eclipse of the Sun (from Matching Tie and Handkerchief).
Yes- Kind of hard to see thru that smoked-trout at Lordes in the rain.
And now the sound of an ant sneezing, magnified TEN MILLION TIMES! 
Good luck with the Radio Show, break a tongue!!
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Mahope Kākou...
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Original Hawai`i-themed radio-play taping
