Massasoit Radio Classics Live Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Two-Days of Hilarious Performances

April 9, 2011 - PRLog -- Brockton, MA---Massasoit Radio Classics is celebrating 20 years with a star-studded cast of members of the Boston area media along with actors from the “classic radio” era at Massasoit Community College’s Buckley Performing Arts Center [One Massasoit Blvd., Brockton, MA 02302] on Saturday night, April 30 at 7 PM and Sunday afternoon, May 1 at 3 PM.  

Performers will include a slew of current and former staffers from WBZ Radio:  Jordan Rich, Rod Fritz, Laurie Kirby, Ben Parker and Ken Meyer, WHDH TV 7 News’ Jonathan Hall, NECN’s morning show host Steve Aveson  animal reporter Vicki Constantine Croke and NECN Business host Mike Nikitas, Magic 106.7’s Candy O’Terry, WATD’s Garo Hagopian, WLPM’S Ron Della Chiesa,the Boston Herald’s Steve Buckley, actress Alice Duffy, opera singer Don Bravo, Sullivan Tire’s Paul Sullivan, sound effects guru Bart Curtis, actor Will Hutchins (of Sugarfoot fame), actress Rosemary Rice (of the Archie Andrews and I Remember Mama radio shows) and music director Tom Boyer.  In addition, ragtime group The Ancient Mariners and singer Amanda Carr will perform. [See last page for who is performing on which show.]

Tickets at just $19.00 each [$17 for seniors and $15 for groups of 8 or over] for this event are on sale now and can be purchased by calling the Buckley Performing Arts Center box office at 508-427-1234 [24/7].  Tickets can also be purchased at the Buckley Performing Arts Center Box Office [located at Massasoit Community College off Route 27, Brockton, MA] during these hours: Mon - Wed: 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM; Thu: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM; Fri: 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM; Sat: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM.  For more information, go to www.massasoit.mass.edu.

Before e-mail, the internet and Facebook, in the middle part of the 20th Century, people were entertained by radio and TV shows like Dragnet, The Bickersons, Duffy’s Tavern and other live broadcast performances featuring live actors and hilarious studio-made sound effects.  These programs were sponsored by commercials for products like Sal Hepatica laxatives and the Dandy Eight Way Stretch Girdle!   On February 11, Massasoit Community College’s Radio Players will present music and comedy in a cabaret format providing an intimate setting.  Proceeds will benefit Massasoit scholarship funds.

Radio/TV Classics Live is a 20-year program at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, Massachusetts which raises scholarship money for students wishing to pursue a career in Radio and TV communications.  Massasoit is part of the Massachusetts State College System; it is a two-year college whose student body comes primarily from multicultural, working class families.   Massasoit Radio Players Present:  Music and Comedy Dinner Theatre is a spin-off of Radio/TV Classics Live.

Created in 1990, Radio/TV Classics Live has raised more than $90,000 in scholarship money for Massasoit graduates going on to four-year colleges.  Equally as important, Radio/TV Classics Live has provided students with the rare opportunity to meet, work with and learn from professionals – actors, writers, directors, sound effects people – from the golden age of radio who were on the cutting edge of what was then the nation’s primary communication and entertainment medium.  The program was also designed to help reach out to the senior citizen community and provide them with evenings of entertainment and nostalgia.

Since Radio Classics began in 1990, the group has been fortunate to have many former and current radio/TV stars participate, including: Dick Van Patten, Alan Young, Gale Storm, Willard Waterman (The Great Gildersleeve), Ezra Stone (Henry Aldrich), Arthur Anderson, Parley Baer, Peg Lynch, Betsy Palmer, Donald Buka, Will Hutchins, Rosemary Rice, Robert Horton, William Schallert, Shirley Mitchell, songwriter Jay Livingston, Lon Clark, Arnold Stang, Fred Foy, Bob Dryden, Bob Hastings, Don Hastings, Mark Goddard and Tom Bergeron.

Additionally, many current and past Boston and national on-air radio/TV personalities have participated, including Rex Trailer (Boomtown), Jess Cain (WHDH), Boston’s original Evening Magazine team Robin Young (WBUR) and Barry Nolan, Ron Della Chiesa (WGBH; WPLM), Jordan Rich, Gil Santos, Laurie Kirby, Diane Stern, Rod Fritz, Deb Lawler, Norm Nathan (WBZ), NPR’s Carl Kasell, Kerry Connolly, Scott Wahle and Josh Binswanger formerly of (WBZTV4), Jonathan Hall (TV7), Charles Laquidara, Ben Parker (WEIM), Jerry Williams (WRKO), and Michele Hughes (WODS).

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