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Project Audion: Classic Audio Dramas for Modern Times

Larry Groebe

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Frequency: 1 episode/26d. Total Eps: 37

Network Radio of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s - the precursor to today's podcasting - was a golden era for Audio Theatre. Project Audion selects the most interesting examples of these vintage audio plays - often from lost scripts that haven't been heard or performed in decades - and recreates them in real-time using top-notch voice actors from across the country and vintage production techniques. The result: a timeless treat for your ears.

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"The Burns & Allen Show" live tribute recreation of classic audio comedy of the 1940s

Season 5 · Episode 11

Saturday, January 11, 2025 • Duration 39:43

Long, long before George Burns became the senior citizen movie star of films like "The Sunshine Boys" and "Oh God!" he was familiar to radio and television audiences across the country as the grounded half of the comedy couple Burns and Allen, with real-life wife (and vaudeville partner) Gracie Allen playing the ditzy dame of the duo. Theirs was a 25-year run on the airwaves, and now for Project Audion, Pete Lutz has penned a fresh new Burns and Allen script that recalls the best of their radio work during World War II, right down to their sponsor of the time, Swan Soap. Much like Bob Hope and Jack Benny did, we find the two of them at a naval base entertaining the troops, along with guest stars Henry Fonda and Chico Marx. You'll be entertained by Audion's transcribed-live transcontinental cast of delicious, delirious vocal talents:

John Bell in Alabama
Mel Rose in Pennsylvania
Dana Gonsalves in Texas
Les Marsden in California
Scott R. McKinley in New Jersey
Pete Lutz in Texas
Robert L. Mills in California
Larry Groebe supervised the production

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"Philip Marlowe: The Three Wise Guys" live recreation of lost noir detective audio drama from 1948

Season 5 · Episode 10

Saturday, December 21, 2024 • Duration 40:01

Our Christmas present for you is a lost episode of the classic detective drama "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe" with a holiday theme! Because Audion's previous Philip Marlowe restoration became its most popular episode ever, we returned to our archives to unearth a Marlowe script which hasn't been performed or heard since December 19, 1948 -- "The Three Wise Guys." "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe" ran for three years on network radio, with new noir-ish tales from author Raymond Chandler's detective. In this episode, it was the night before Christmas and (as Marlowe says) "a sweet girl was in trouble. But that didn't mean a thing to the second-story man, the four-flusher in spats, and the ex-Chicago cabbie -- until, one way or the other, they all got into the spirit of the thing..." Our cast, which recorded this episode live in the classic radio drama style, included:

Andy Hartson-Bowyer in Virginia
Tom Konkle in California
Hunter Adkins in Maryland
Gregg Mcafee in California
Jessica Matthews in Texas
Rhiannon Mcafee in California
Donna Patton in Tennessee
Paul Kovit in New York
Music, sounds, production, direction by Larry Groebe

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"The Jack Benny Program: Casablanca" tribute recreation of classic radio comedy show of the 1940s

Season 5 · Episode 9

Saturday, November 30, 2024 • Duration 35:50

The Jack Benny Program returns with a delightful all-new radio episode penned by former Bob Hope staff writer Robert L. Mills just for Project Audion. Jack and his regular gang - Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, and Rochester - send up the movie classic "Casablanca" with some of the movie's original cast in guest starring roles. Jack takes the Humphrey Bogart part, inevitably. Join project Audion's talented transcontinental voice actors as they perform together in real time (like the old radio-drama days) this brand-new episode of the Jack Benny Program that sounds like it came from the 1940s! Our cast:

John Bell in Alabama
Paul Patterson in Georgia
Julie Hoverson in Washington
Mel Rose in Pennsylvania
Pete Lutz in Texas
Scott McKinley in New Jersey
Bob Beaumont in California
Ken Jeffries in California
Written and directed by Robert L. Mills in California
Produced by Larry Groebe in Texas

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"Johnny Dollar: The Damiani Diamond Matter" live tribute recreation of classic noir detective audio drama

Season 5 · Episode 8

Saturday, November 9, 2024 • Duration 40:55

"Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" was the last detective standing at the end of radio drama's original classic era, outlasting everyone else - Sam Spade, Richard Diamond, Sherlock Holmes, The Saint, Phillip Marlowe and dozens of others. "America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator" is arguably better-loved now than he was in the middle of the 20th century. Now Project Audion presents a new Johnny Dollar script, written by Patrick Keating in the style of the original episodes, and transcribed live (via Zoom) in the classic audio drama manner. Johnny Dollar travels to Texas to learn about the Damiani Diamond and what has happened to it... Project Audion's cast includes:

Pete Fernbaugh in West Virginia
Kristen James in California
Glenn Hascall in Kansas
Lefty Rosenthal in Toronto Canada
Caleb Fisher in Virginia
Norman and Denise Cline in Kentucky
with production by Larry Groebe in Texas

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"Lights Out: Burial Services" recreation of lost 1936 classic horror audio drama

Season 5 · Episode 7

Saturday, October 12, 2024 • Duration 34:35

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...

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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.

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"Romance: Pride & Prejudice" live recreation of 1947 romantic-comedy audio drama

Season 5 · Episode 6

Saturday, September 14, 2024 • Duration 39:56

For fourteen years beginning in 1943, the CBS Radio network brought its listeners "Romance" - an anthology of half-hour love stories both classic and new, serious and comic. A story like Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" would seem to be a particular challenge to condense to a single half-hour, but Romance captured the essence of the tale in a brisk, highly entertaining adaptation that was performed three times during the show's long run.

The vintage mid-century recordings sound muddy and are not always well cast, so it became an ideal candidate for Project Audion to recreate. Enjoy the classic love match of Miss Bennet and Mr Darcy in this streamlined "Pride and Prejudice," recorded live in the authentic 1940s manner, but via Zoom using voice actors spread across the country. Our cast:

Donna Patton in Tennessee
Tom Konkle in California
Jane Beverley in New Jersey
Richard Durrington in Idaho
Laura Mirsky in New Jersey
Greg Vestal in Texas
Les Marsden in California
Larry Groebe handled production, direction, music, and sound.

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"The Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show" recreation of classic radio situation comedy series

Season 5 · Episode 5

Saturday, August 31, 2024 • Duration 35:12

In terms of sheer fun and laughter during radio's classic mid-century era, it's hard to beat the Phil Harris/Alice Faye show. A spinoff from Jack Benny, bandleader Phil Harris and his family found themselves in classic sitcom predicaments week after week. Now, Robert L. Mills, former writer for Bob Hope, has created another fresh script that brings all those characters -- including Frankie Remley, Julius, brother Willie, your friendly Rexall druggist and others -- back to life.

Project Audion's talented voice actors came together live with a virtual studio audience to create a delightful - and delightfully accurate - recreation of a radio comedy classic. Here they are all:

PETE LUTZ in Texas
ANGELA YOUNG in Florida
DUANE NOCH in New Jersey
JULIE HOVERSON in Washington
BOB BEAUMONT in California
Mel Rose in Pennsylvania
HARRY MIDDLEBROOKS in California
RANDY KERDOON in Washington
ROBERT L. MILLS, in California, who also scripted the show

Production was handled in Texas by Larry Groebe

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"Matinee with Bob & Ray" - tribute recreation of the classic radio comedy duo

Season 5 · Episode 4

Saturday, August 10, 2024 • Duration 33:08

Project Audion invites you to some light summer fare: the Audion Original "Matinee with Bob & Ray." This is Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding like you've never heard before, because it's made of fresh sketches in tribute to "The Two and Only."

For those who are NOT intimately familiar with Biff Burns, Komodo dragons, or the Slow Talkers of America, the comedic duo of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding was formed (legend has it) by accident, in the mid-1940s when a baseball game broadcast was rained out and these two young men were thrown together to ad-lib on the air. That began a five-decade partnership that saw them on every radio network, on TV, films, and even Broadway. Their wit and deadpan characters influenced many later funnymen, including Bob Newhart, David Letterman, Jay Leno and others. Also Pete Lutz, who wrote this half-hour of new absurdly satirical routines. The droll style of "The Two and Only" returns to life in our "Matinee with Bob & Ray!"

Bob Elliott - John Bell, Alabama
Ray Goulding - Pete Lutz, Texas
Organ - Ross Bernardt , Texas
Production - Larry Groebe, Texas

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"Philip Marlowe" live recreation of lost 1949 episode from classic noir detective radio drama

Season 5 · Episode 3

Saturday, July 13, 2024 • Duration 45:54

In the long lineup of fictional hard-boiled detectives, Philip Marlowe stands out as one of the earliest and best. Raymond Chandler's creation first reached print in the early 1930s, then went on to memorable adaptations in film, television, and of course radio. "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe" had a solid four-year run of well over 100 episodes on CBS. Still, a handful of recordings are lost today.

Now Project Audion recreates one of these missing episodes - "The Quiet Number" - directly from the original script, exactly seventy-five years after it was broadcast. "The Quiet Number" wasn't penned by Chandler, but we meet the son of the man who wrote this and most of Marlowe's other radio adventures. Then our transcontinental voice cast performs this gritty story of lost love in a hot Los Angeles summer via a live transcription that sounds just like 1949. Our versatile voice actors were:

Andy Hartson-bowyer in Virginia
Richard Durrington in Idaho
Gary Layton in Texas
Lothar Tuppan in California
Kristen James in Nevada
Holly Adams in New York
Kyle Bonn in Oregon
Larry Groebe produced and directed from Texas

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"Jack Benny Program: The Man Who Knew Too Much" tribute recreation of classic radio comedy series

Season 5 · Episode 2

Saturday, June 15, 2024 • Duration 36:23

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

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