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In 1938, a group of talented artists known as The Mercury Theatre on the Air, led by Orson Welles, created a spectacle that changed the course of broadcast history forever by terrifying a nation with a staged alien invasion. This is the story of how the infamous War of the Worlds radio drama came to be and how it almost never was...
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Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Defying the direct orders of Davidson Taylor and CBS, The Mercury Theatre on the Air puts on the greatest Halloween show to ever play on broadcast radio.
Cast
Ari Stidham as Orson Welles
Keaton Talmadge as Ora Nichols
Jim Brannigan as John Houseman
Oscar Jordan as Davidson Taylor
Courtney Reece as Anne Froelick
Christopher Hodge as Howard Koch
Rama Vallury as Paul Stewart
Ben Birmingham as Announcer and Various Radio Performers
Stephanie Langford as Mother, Churchgoer#3, and Reporter #4
David Dean as Father, Officer #3
Aubrey Clyburn as Churchgoer #2
Michael Baran as Pastor and Sargent
Jarrad Green as Various Radio Performers, Officer #2, Reporter #1
Chris Boike as Officer #1
Allegra Rodriguez Shivers as Officer #4 and Reporter #3
Produced by:
Casey Hammons
Daniel Patton
Jordan Stidham
S. Christian Roe
Sound Editing by Jason Crowe
Original Compositions by JD O’Dea
Supplemental tracks and sound effects were provided by EpidemicSound.com
“There You’ll Be” by Howard Harper-Barnes
“Steps in Time” by Golden Age Radio
“Etude No 1 For or String Quartet” by Peter Sandberg
“Piano Concerto 1 in B Flat Minor” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Featuring Snippets of the actual “War of the Worlds” Broadcast.
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Brilliant!! Great cast, quality script and at last, the panic broadcast seen from another angle, the drama behind the drama. Anyone with even the merest interest in WOTW will love it!! Well done!!!
Monday Aug 21, 2023
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