Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board: Looking for a good Radio Drama

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   Hi all!

I work for a college, and last December during final exams some alum and faculty members did A Christmas Carol as a radio drama.  The students loved it, so we are planning on doing another radio drama this year at the same time.  I just don't know what to do!  The general consensus is not to do Christmas Carol again since the cast will essentially be the same give or take a few.  I am happy to use a published radio drama, or to take a book and adapt it for our needs. It does not necessarily have to be a Christmas story.   

Thoughts?

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GeeGee Player Joined: 9/06/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 16	Topic: Looking for a good Radio Drama Posted: 9/10/11 at 1:40am
	Hi all! I work for a college, and last December during final exams some alum and faculty members did A Christmas Carol as a radio drama. The students loved it, so we are planning on doing another radio drama this year at the same time. I just don't know what to do! The general consensus is not to do Christmas Carol again since the cast will essentially be the same give or take a few. I am happy to use a published radio drama, or to take a book and adapt it for our needs. It does not necessarily have to be a Christmas story. Thoughts?

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Martin Player Joined: 4/02/06 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 13	Posted: 9/10/11 at 5:44am
	"Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl," from Heuer Publishing, with a flexible cast of 21. www.hitplays.com Synopsis: "Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl" is a modern melodrama that chronicles a ridiculous day and the challenges and struggles of a young woman who makes a living manufacturing doughnuts and sweet pastries in a small town doughnut factory. Structured as a radio program complete with phony commercials, parody songs, audience participation, and listener call-in spots, Delia Dancer, Doughnut Girl stretches theatrical forms but is deeply rooted in awful puns and wrapped around an apple pie and a cup of coffee of small town life. Types: Full Length Play, Community Theatre Genres: Comedy, Melodrama Cast: 6 men, 7 women, 8 extras, flexible cast, 21 total
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carolecat Walk-On Joined: 9/03/11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Posted: 9/18/11 at 11:19am
	It's a Wonderful Life, by Tony Palermo. Great show and he does a lot of the sound effects on CD for you.
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edh915 Celebrity Joined: 11/19/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 325	Posted: 9/18/11 at 4:51pm
	There's a really cute show called "Chaps". It takes place during WW II and a group of country western performers are scheduled to appear on BBC, their bus is somehow waylaid and in stiff-upper-lip, never-say-die fashion, the all-British staff at the radio station steps in to try to duplicate the show that the troops were going to hear. A bunch of Brits trying to be cowboys. Good fun!
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