Bonus Episode - SONIC SUMMERSTOCK 19: SUNSET BOULEVARD

Narada Radio Company Audio Drama

Published on Oct 27th at 1:46pm

In March 2019, the Narada Radio Company was invited to perform at the Rockport Little Theatre, Rockport, Texas. The choice of show was mine, and I had to hold auditions from local actors, rather than choose my own regular Narada players. As a result of this, two old theatre friends appeared at auditions, and my show was blessed, because I had my "Norma Desmond". We performed only three shows, and got only two recordings, from which I offer what you see here. 

It's interesting to note that we created more than 90 live sound effects in this production, many of which I invented myself. Our audiences enjoyed watching our two SFX ladies creating the sounds.

The script came originally from the "Lux Radio Theatre" adaptation, but I added dialog from the screenplay here and there; and I wrote new commercials to replace the Lux spots, but for some reason the commercials didn't record very well, so I cut them out of the final recording. The show overall doesn't suffer from this loss, however, and in fact cuts down your total listening time. Please enjoy this presentation of BIG STAGE AUDIO THEATRE! (Originally released in July or August 2019 for Sonic Summerstock Playhouse.)

CAST:

ANNOUNCERS... Rick Nielsen, Aileen Corpos

PETUNIA DOVETONSILS (Your Host) ... Geri Elliff

HANDSOME MAN, ARTIE, and CECIL B. DEMILLE... Joe Martinez

JOE GILLIS... Chris Starnes

NORMA DESMOND... Becky Nielsen

BETTY... Dawn Robertson

MAX... Pete Lutz

SHELDRAKE, OLD STUDIO GUARD and POLICE LIEUTENANT... Jason D. Johnson

LANA, SKOLSKY, and DeMille's ASSISTANT... Narice Hopp

FINANCE COMPANY MAN #1 and YOUNG STUDIO GUARD... Geneva Aubrey

FINANCE COMPANY MAN #2 and MORINO... Aileen Corpos

POLICE CAPTAIN... Rick Nielsen

DETECTIVE... Jessica Mathews

MUSIC... Dr Ross Bernhardt.

SOUND EFFECTS... Kathie Ricketts, Jessica Mathews