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Ihose old radio days were the days when the audience was as important as the show. Long before canned laughter and closed circuit television, the audience provided the background for acts like Lulu Bell and Scotty or Abbott and Costello or The Lone Ranger. Their participation was cued by station directors, completing each act.
Many may remember the “Golden Age of Radio,” feeling it’s a time long past.
Past it may be - forgotten it is not.
On stage, it lives still.
The Rappahannock Players, in cooperation with Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC), will bring back many of these old radio names and faces in their upcoming production, “On-The-Air,” Oct. 19, 20, 26 and 27, for one show nightly at 8 p. m.
“We decided to do this last spring,” Players’ president Mitch Hostetter said of the production, adding it was not until summer that the idea was fully organized. “I really like old-time radio and old music and we (the Rapphannock Players Committee) thought it might be fun to do,” she added.
From the idea, the script has been complied and the lost radio acts rediscovered.
“We’ve written a great deal of the stuff,” Mrs. Hostetter said, adding a section of the show has come from the extensive library of Richard Pierson.
Mr. Pierson has a collection of over 20,000 recordings beginning with the first recordings in the last 19th century. His Amissville based library houses musical favorites of several eras.
“We have used many items from Dick’s collection,” she said, adding the acts are reproduced by Ideal talent while several orchestra selections and musica’ pieces are originial recordings.
The production, on stage at Gay Street Theater in Washington, begins in 1990 with a 90-year-old woman falling into
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