(Orig. rel. 7/31/18) You may know already that the Narada Radio Co. has participated in Jack Ward's annual "Sonic Summerstock Playhouse" festival since 2015, and has produced at least one Old-Time Radio remake per year in support of same. This year, however, we were quite prolific, creating a total of four remakes (count 'em! FOUR!) for this very worthy event. We hope you enjoyed last week's entry, THE ADVENTURES OF NERO WOLFE: 'STAMPED FOR MURDER', and hope you'll come back over the next two Sundays to hear the last two. These final three, it's been explained, were already released during the summer of '18; but if you're not a Sonic Society subscriber, you might have missed 'em, so here's our next entry: NBC BEST PLAYS: "ARSENIC AND OLD LACE"!
Our cast of this radio remake is the same cast used for the stage production of Arsenic and Old Lace, which I directed in 2017 at Harbor Playhouse, Corpus Christi, Texas. We recorded it on that very stage, too! Here are our players:
ABBY BREWSTER - Michele Barnett
THE REV. DR. HARPER - Michael Pierce
TEDDY BREWSTER - Chuck Wilson
OFFICER BROPHY - Leo Longoria
OFFICER KLEIN - Richard Robinson
MARTHA BREWSTER - Aileen Corpos
MORTIMER BREWSTER - Peter M. Howard
ELAINE HARPER - Shannon Bladow
MR. GIBBS - Rick Yellen
JONATHAN BREWSTER - Jason D. Johnson
DR. EINSTEIN - Joe Martinez
OFFICER O'HARA - Bobby Vela
LIEUTENANT ROONEY - Larry Hutchison
MR. WITHERSPOON - Gene Giggy