Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times
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"The Damon Runyon Theatre" tribute recreation of classic 1949 radio audio drama series
Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times
03/09/24 • 34 min
The "Damon Runyon Theatre," a syndicated radio series from 1949 relating stories of New York's "guys and dolls" -- mobsters and dames, gamblers and frails, saints and sinners -- which newspaperman and sportswriter Damon Runyon colorfully brought to life in decades of short stories. They may have been gangsters, but they often had hearts of gold underneath - plus a unique present-tense way of speaking which has come to be known as "Runyonesque."
The Damon Runyon Theatre recorded 52 charming half-hour versions of his stories, and those got writer Casey Keller (Beakman's World, The Love Boat) wanting more. So he's written a new episode, and Project Audion brings you the world premiere of his Runyonesque tale, "Ringside Rosie." Our transcontinental cast is captured live in performance, just like they things did 1949, for a delightful story about a doll who loved boxing, and the guy who loved her. Our cast includes:
Duane Noch in New Jersey Don Paul in California Andy Hartson-Bowyer in Virginia Jacob Palka in Illinois Stanley Dyrector in California Paul Arbisi in Illinois Reg Platt in Texas Susan Platt in Texas Casey Keller in California with the production under the supervision of Larry Groebe in Texas
"Jack Benny Show: Witness for the Prosecution" tribute recreation of classic radio comedy series
Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times
02/24/24 • 42 min
Just premiered for the International Jack Benny Society annual convention, and now available to all: a "new" episode of the classic Jack Benny radio show newly penned exclusively for Project Audion by Bob Hope comedy writer Robert L. Mills. Here, Jack and the gang do a send up of the movie "Witness for the Prosecution" - with W. C. Fields in a guest-starring role.
Here's what Mr Mills said after hearing the final product: "This as near perfection as any living humans could possibly recreate a 75-year-old radio show. You performed miracles producing this and the program will take its place among the best work you've ever done." As Jack would say... "Well!” That's a tribute to the cast and crew. Go ahead - join our virtual studio audience and laugh at the efforts of these talented voice actors...
John Bell in Alabama Pete Lutz in Texas Ken Jeffries in California Carl Thomas in Texas Bob Beaumont in California Angela Young in Florida Harry Middlebrooks in CA Norman Cline in Kentucky Bob Mills wrote the script in LA While back in Texas, Larry Groebe oversaw the production
"Lights Out: Burial Services" recreation of lost 1936 classic horror audio drama
Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times
10/12/24 • 34 min
Brought back to life after nearly 90 years buried at the Library of Congress, Project Audion recreates the very first script Arch Oboler created for NBC's famous late night horror drama "Lights Out." Lights Out stories gave the listener free rein to imagine the worst. And in the hands of a master storyteller like Oboler, the worst could be terrifying indeed - like a good campfire ghost story, reinforced with sound effects.
"Burial Services" took a simple, horrifying premise - being buried alive - and wrapped a moody story around it, one whose shock value comes as much from hearing the private thoughts of the attendees as what happens to the person in the coffin. When "Burial Services" aired June 3, 1936 it upset so many listeners that it was never produced again - but it launched Arch Oboler on a long and highly successful career. Only the original script of "Burial Services" survived, resting in peace in the archives of the Library of Congress. Project Audion was able to unearth the script, and our transcontinental cast (even including a licensed mortician) performs the episode in its original as-broadcast form for the first time in nine decades. Listen with the lights out...if you dare...
Festuring Holly Adams, New York Patte Rosebank, Canada John Mauldin, Tennessee Grace Wagner, Illinois Doug Fain, Kentucky Greg McAfee, California Sharon Grunwald, New Jersey Vincent Caruso, New York Production, direction, and sound patterns were by Larry Groebe, Texas.
"Jack Benny Program: The Man Who Knew Too Much" tribute recreation of classic radio comedy series
Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times
06/15/24 • 36 min
Project Audion once again brings you laughs, with an all-new original episode of the Jack Benny Program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes. This Audion Original was written for us by former Bob Hope staff writer Robert L. Mills. Jack Benny was his childhood comedy inspiration, and once again Mr. Mills has recreated that classic Benny style and humor so faithfully it's like discovering a lost episode!
This week, Jack has snagged Jimmy Stewart as his guest star, so the Benny gang (Mary Livingston, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Mel Blanc, and the rest) can stage their send-up of the Alfred Hitchcock film "The Man Who Knew Too Much." Also, after a trying violin lesson with Professor LeBlanc, Jack faces a tax audit which requires a trip to the IRS to explain some of his more mysterious deductions. Performing live in our virtual Zoom studio, our coast-to-coast cast and crew once again capture the sound of the Benny show right down to the studio audience. Tune in and join in the laughter!
JOHN BELL In Alabama SCOTT MCKINLEY in New Jersey ANGELA YOUNG in Florida PAUL PATTERSON in Georgia PETE LUTZ in Texas BOB BEAUMONT in California RACHEL PULLIAM in Missouri KEN JEFFRIES in California LARRY GROEBE produced and directed from Texas
"Crime Classics" live recreation of audition script of classic 1953 true crime audio drama
Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times
02/10/24 • 41 min
Premiering tonight (2/9) at 9 PM Eastern, Project Audion recreates a shocking tale of love, hate, conspiracy, and murder - all the more so for being a true story that took place in 1778. "The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner" tells the story of the first woman executed for murder in the United States. It was the audition script for a new CBS radio drama series - "Crime Classics" -- a sort of mid-century predecessor to today's true-crime podcasts, created by some of radio's finest actors, writers, directors, and musicians.
Audion's rendition of "The Crime of Bathsheba Spooner" works from the uncut audition script, including material that never aired seventy years ago. In addition, we visit with Andrew Noone, author of a recent book on the 1778 murder, trial, and execution. Join us and listen to the modern passions that inflamed Revolutionary America!
"Mystery In The Air" Tribute recreation in the style of 1947 Peter Lorre audio drama
Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times
01/13/24 • 41 min
Peter Lorre is an actor with such a distinctive voice and presence that even now, 60 years after his death, he's still instantly identifiable. It's surprising he didn't do more radio dramas, but he did host and star in "Mystery In The Air" in 1947. As a summer replacement show, there were only 17 episodes, and only 8 or so recordings exist -- so Project Audion asked Pete Lutz to create a NEW Mystery in the Air script. The result is both light-hearted and supernaturally spooky, and thanks to our transcontinental cast of talented voice actors, sounds just like an unheard episode from this terrific vintage series:
Pete Lutz in Texas Lothar Tuppan in California Jeff Billard in Massachusetts Geri Elliff in Texas Angela Young in Florida John Bell in Alabama Bob Beaumont in California with Larry Groebe handling sounds, music, and production
Suspense: "The Witness On The Westbound Train"
Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times
05/21/23 • 37 min
Project Audion recreates an extraordinarily rare, early lost episode of the classic audio drama "Suspense." When CBS premiered the the show in June 1942, it wasn't immediately evident that it would become one of the all-time great radio dramas, running for 20 years and nearly 1000 stories. Indeed, in this (just Suspense's fifth-ever episode, from July 15, 1942), while all the typical ingredients are in place (in this instance, a murder aboard a moving train) the show hadn't quite yet settled into the style that would soon define classics like 1943's "Sorry, Wrong Number."
Heard for the first time in 80 years, our recreation of this lost Suspense episode -- "The Witness on the Westbound Train" -- is taken from the single known surviving script. It features the same transcontinental cast of vocal actors who appeared in Project Audion's very first episode, along with additional talented voices who have appeared in Project Audion shows during the past three years. The cast:
MARK: Pete Lutz, TX JOE: Doug Fain, KY DORIS: Patte Rosebank, Canada CONDUCTOR: Denny Thmpson, CO LAWRENCE / RANDOLPH: John Mauldin, TN BILL / BAGGAGEMAN: Dick Huitema, FL ANNOUNCER / WAITER: Robert Stevenson, IN DIRECTION / PRODUCTION / SOUND: Larry Groebe, TX
Tales of Tomorrow: "Syndrome Johnny"
Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times
07/14/23 • 41 min
It's the year 2090. There are signs that a pandemic is coming - a pandemic which will kill millions of innocent people - again. Because it's happened before. But this time, just maybe, we know what - or who - is causing it...and a chance to stop it.
That's the setup for "Syndrome Johnny," a lost episode from a nearly-forgotten science-fiction anthology radio drama from 1953 called "Tales of Tomorrow." The television version of "Tales of Tomorrow," which actually came before the radio edition, is considered one of the first serious scifi video series. The TV edition spawned the radio offshoot, which hoped to fill the void of the recently-cancelled and now-classic series "Dimension X," adapting stories from Galaxy Magazine. Failing to find a sponsor, it only lasted a few months. The sound quality of the few recordings that survive is mostly quite poor, and our recreation "Syndrome Johnny" doesn't survive at all.Our transcontinental cast performs in the classic audio drama tradition - live in one uninterrupted take - to recapture the spirit of this pioneering science fiction show for a national audience for the first time in 70 years.
In our cast: Trevor Rines, Canada Tim Burns, Kansas Jack Ward, Canada Greg McAfee, California Rhiannon McAfee California Gary Layton, Texas and Larry Groebe, Texas
"Lights Out: The Dark" Recreation of January 19, 1938 episode
Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times
10/14/23 • 33 min
Who was it who made that phone call to the emergency room -- the one that set off the horrible chain of events that took place in The Dark? Project Audion recreates the episode "The Dark" from LIGHTS OUT - one of classic radio's most imaginatively gruesome shows. It's an episode show that hasn't been heard in its complete form since January 1938! "Lights Out" was the work of master radio dramatist Arch Oboler, and he memorably redid "The Dark" 25 years later as a highly abridged adaptation for an LP called "Drop Dead" - the only recording you could hear until now. But Project Audion worked from the original half-hour 1938 script to deliver extra thrills and chills, and leading to a climax where -- well, that would be telling, wouldn't it? Who's afraid of The Dark? You will be! Our cast features: Jacob Palka in Illinois Douglas Herrman in California Denise Cline in Kentucky Robert Stevenson in Indiana Sounds, production, and direction by Larry Groebe in Texas
"Fibber McGee & Molly": A brand new episode based on the classic 1940s radio comedy show
Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times
06/10/23 • 37 min
Project Audion revisits one of the funniest, most beloved radio comedies of the 20th century. Fibber McGee and Molly tickled the radio audience for so long - more than a quarter of a century - that it spawned the very first-ever spinoff shows... and recurring gags like Fibber's hopelessly overstuffed closet and quips like Molly's "t'ain't funny, McGee" remained part of shared American pop culture long after the series left the airwaves. Part vaudeville act, part sitcom, the series stared real-life couple Jim and Marion Jordan who were indeed former vaudeville comics. Don Quinn's scripts and a large cast of supporting characters who stopped by 79 Wistful Vista kept the laughs rolling. Now, Robert L. Mills (former comedy writer for Bob Hope) has wonderfully recreated the style of the show at its peak in a new script penned just for Project Audion. In it, Fibber thinks he's come up with a brilliant and practical new invention - for once, does his boasting have merit? Listen to our transcontinental cast and laugh!
Our cast: Fibber McGee: John Bell, AL Molly / Teeny: Holly Adams, NY Harlow Wilcox: Ken Jeffries, CA Wallace Wimple: Dana Gonsalves, TX Mayor LaTrivia: Bob Beaumont, CA Doc Gamble: Frank Guglielmeli, PA Old Timer: Harry Middlebrooks, CA Gildersleeve: Larry Groebe, TX Leroy: Carolyn Threlkeld, KY Produced, directed, and mixed by Larry Groebe
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How many episodes does Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times have?
Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times currently has 20 episodes available.
What topics does Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times cover?
The podcast is about Fiction, Drama, Podcasts, Arts and Performing Arts.
What is the most popular episode on Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times?
The episode title '"Mystery In The Air" Tribute recreation in the style of 1947 Peter Lorre audio drama' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times?
The average episode length on Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times is 39 minutes.
How often are episodes of Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times released?
Episodes of Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times are typically released every 28 days.
When was the first episode of Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times?
The first episode of Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times was released on May 21, 2023.
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