Has anyone directed a radio show that was performed on the stage and not for airing on the radio? Was it well received by your audience or were they bored? Thanks for any info.

I was in a radio show that we performed in front of a live audience and taped for later broadcast. The people in the audience seemed to really enjoy it. They got the jokes and seemed to love watching the sound effects being made.

There is a local group that does one around Halloween for Public Radio. The broadcast sold out the last time I went. It was fasinating to watch, and very entertaining.

Linda

 

Years ago, I worked for a local dinner theater and they decided to do a radio live broadcast (over 13 stations in 4 states) of Dickens' Christmas Carol.  There was an audience who paid to get in that filled the auditorium, they served only drinks (no food for this two time performance). The sound effects were MOSTLY all created like an old time radio show. We only supplemented with taped sound effects for crowds, ambient outdoor noise but everything else was done live.  No costumes, just actors doing their thing when required at three mikes. I got to say it was a BLAST to do.  GREAT FUN and the audience absolutely LOVED every second of it.  It was as close as we could get to that old-time feel and people really responded to it.  Now the fact that it WAS live, actually broadcast and listened to, was just that much more fun.  But the old time radio shows were just fun anyway and to try to recreate that for an audience is a study in nostalgia, history and style.  I think audiences might respond to that.  Your audience MIGHT be an older audience but ours was quite mixed....from seniors to kids.  I guess parents just wanted to give them a taste of what it was like and the seniors just wanted a fond memory of something they knew well.  I mean I grew up on the radio too - listening and absorbing all those great shows of the past.  TV wasn't there too early in my house...but radio ALWAYS was.  And let me say (at my age) it's fun to remember those days of listening to the radio in the dark and seeing that familiar orange glow of vacuum tubes and radios that were rich sounding and warm.  GREAT fun that everyone should get the chance to do at least one time.  I wish I could do it again.