South Valley Civic Theatre
’s holiday performance of “The 1940s Radio Hour” begins a
10-performance run on Friday, Nov. 21 at the Morgan Hill Playhouse,
Monterey Road at East Fifth Street. The theater group is the
Playhouse’s primary resident troop and performs five plays a year
for the entertainment of local resident
s.
South Valley Civic Theatre’s holiday performance of “The 1940s Radio Hour” begins a 10-performance run on Friday, Nov. 21 at the Morgan Hill Playhouse, Monterey Road at East Fifth Street. The theater group is the Playhouse’s primary resident troop and performs five plays a year for the entertainment of local residents.
Radio Hour takes the audience on a nostalgic trip down memory lane into the backdrop of World War II, setting the stage for swinging big band music and song and old fashioned situation comedy of a bygone period. The story takes place during a live broadcast of WOV, a local 5,000-watt New York City radio station.
It centered around 14 performers and their attempts to make it to the big time, as seen through the eyes of a 1940’s radio station studio audience. This nostalgic trip includes such songs as “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”, “Ain’t She Sweet”, and “Blue Moon.”
SVCT’s cast is composed of mostly veteran performers including Christine Varela, Eric Hilding, Frank Harper, Katherine Paolini, Lane Grover, Peter Mandel, Rod Pintello, Sandi Lewandowski, Scott Glasspool, Tom Hepner, Vernell Guillory, Dustin VanGundy and Dick DeBolt who retired earlier in the year but decided he couldn’t stay away.
The Playhouse, renovated from an old church and opened to great fanfare in January, is a small, intimate house in which audiences claim there are no bad seats.
Radio Hour will be performed Friday, Nov. 21 and 28, and Dec. 5 and 12, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 22 and 29 and Dec. 6 and 13 at 8 p.m.; and two matinees on Sunday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 7 at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students and seniors and may be purchased at BookSmart, 17415 Monterey Road, 778-6467 in Morgan Hill (open every day); the Morgan Hill Community & Cultural Center, 17000 Monterey Road at East Dunne Ave., 782-0008 and at California Music, 7565 Monterey Road in Gilroy. Will-call tickets may be purchased with a credit card at www.PresaleTicketing.com/ Details: 842-746
