11/27/2023 0 Comments 1940s christmas carol songbookPeople have been singing about Christmas almost as long as it’s been celebrated. The things that make Christmas songs great - whether carols, old pop standards or newer enduring hits - are most of the same things that make pop great in general: emotional connection, universal relatability, unshakeable catchiness. MULLINS - Concierge of the Hotel Aberdeen in Newark.There’s a reason that listeners seem to get more impatient every year for the Christmas music season to start: Nothing else feels quite like it. ESTHER LEWIS PIRNIE - Backstage audio engineer and transmitter supervisor for WOV radio.(Could be a man or woman.) Besides his/her usual musical chores for WOV, he/she and his/her wife/husband Faith/Frank provide both underscoring to the radio drama as well as their new and old holiday songs for the broadcast. TOOTS NAVARRE - Musical director, composer and pianist/organist for the Mystery Theatre.Born and raised in Bayonne by his Aunts Lulu and Gilly. Has a sharp wit and is always agreeable, whistling, and in a good mood. The 24 year-old "sound effectician" at WOV. ISADORE "BUZZ" CRENSHAW - His life is his work.Always trying to recruit the other WOV women to join "the cause." Makes the long train ride to Babylon, Long Island, three days a week, to contribute to the war effort by working for Republic Aviation operating drill presses and riveting guns. As a show regular, plays all the animals, babies, insects, little kids. Lives on the lower east side of Manhattan. SALLY SIMPSON - 20 year-old Sally seems sweet and gentle, but is a tough lady.She works days as a bookkeeper/typist/stenographer/receptionist. This 30 year-old Irish-American comedienne lives with her two sisters, Zazu and Vi, in a two-room apartment in Queens. As a show regular, plays the comic roles. MARGIE O'BRIEN - Brassy, flippant, with a voice to match (think Ginger Rogers in "Stage Door").Day job working as a switchboard operator. Has two kids and two ex's and wants no more of either. JUDITH DAVENPORT - Although quite the cutup herself, Judith is the resident "leading lady" playing all such roles as a regular.Having just graduated from high school, Jackie, only 17, lives with his mom in suburban Newark. "LITTLE" JACKIE SPARKS - Not actually "little," but young.The resident Masher, cynic and wise-guy, Fritz plays Frank Nelson cameos in comedy sketches. FRITZ CANIGLIARO - Once an east-coast Florsheim Shoe salesman (and still plugs them whenever he gets an opportunity for a little commission), now a WOV regular.Lives in Jersey City, with his wife, Midge, has no kids, and has a hopeless and unrequited crush on Margie. Has a day job as a baker at Weequahic Diner (where his specialty is the nesselrode pie). CHARLES "CHOLLY" BUTTS - 35 year-old funny man.William's 31 year-old son David was killed in the Air Force in France in June 1943. With a great mane of dramatic white hair, William is a bit of a curmudgeon and looks down on radio as one of the bastard children of the stage. CLAIRE - 70 year-old, retired star of stage and screen. Wears wire-frame glasses like Glenn Miller. CLIFTON FEDDINGTON - 55 year-old Mutual Announcer, front man for WOV's Nash-Kelvinator Mystery Theatre.If you enjoyed 1940's Radio Hour, step back in time once again with the Feddington Players, and get into the holiday spirit with A 1940's Radio Christmas Carol. Seamlessly combining drama and comedy, heartbreak and hope, A 1940's Radio Christmas Carol will sing its way into your heart. High School Musical lyricist Faye Greenberg and composer David Wohl have written four delightful period songs for the Feddington Players, and swing arrangements of many Christmas standards. In order to 'save the show,' the company improvises an ending to Charles Dickens' classic as a film noir mystery, featuring a hardboiled detective, a femme fatale, and an absurd rescue of Tiny Tim (and the Lindbergh baby) from the clutches of a Hitler-esque villain named Rudolf! Claire has an on-air breakdown, and begins to connect his own life with that of the classic Dickens tale. Claire's escalating foibles and acting missteps propel the show to a simultaneously comedic and heart-wrenching dramatic climax: St. Claire, this radio show is an entertaining excursion into the mayhem and madness of a live radio show. Whether it's the noisy plumbing, missed cues, electrical blackouts, or the over-the-top theatrics of veteran actor, but radio novice, William St. It's Christmas Eve, 1943, and the Feddington Players are now broadcasting from a hole-in-the-wall studio in Newark, NJ, and set to present their contemporary 'take' on Dickens's A Christmas Carol. The long-awaited sequel to the popular The 1940's Radio Hour.
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