A Radio Christmas Carol
Season 01, Episode 02
December 19, 2013
A recording of this episode is not available. Apologies.
Our community holiday tradition begins
Re-Imagined Radio presents the Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry and the Holly Jolly Singers, directed by Bennett Bailey, and their performance of "A Radio Christmas Carol," at Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver, Washington.
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The "A Radio Christmas Carol (2013)" script is not available. Apologies.
Background
This is the second collaboration between Re-Imagined Radio, The Willamette Radio Workshop, and Kiggins Theatre. Following our first collaboration, "The War of the Worlds," in October, John F. Barber, producer and host of Re-Imagined Radio, Sam A. Mowry, founder and director of The Willamette Radio Workshop, and Dan Wyatt, Jr., owner and general manager of Kiggins Theatre, in Vancouver, Washington, agreed to offer a family friendly event for the holidays.
Little did we know where this agreement would lead. Since Christmas 2013 we offered several more live performances at Kiggins Theatre, until 2020 when safety regulations associated with the COVID pandemic shuttered public performances. Sam Mowry died in 2024. Re-Imagined Radio continues as a monthly radio broadcast and/or live stream on several community radio stations, and as a podcast.
Production
Contents
An adaptation of the December 23, 1938 episode of The Campbell Playhouse, "A Christmas Carol," starring Orson Welles as Ebeneezer Scrooge, and featuring other members of the former The Mercury Theatre on the Air.
Credits
The Willamette Radio Workshop directed by Sam A. Mowry
The Holly Jolly Singers directed by Bennett Bailey
Promotional graphics by Sam A. Mowry
Produced by John F. Barber
Significance
This is first offering of "A Christmas Carol" by Re-Imagined Radio. 2013. The start of a community holiday tradition. It is also the second collaboration with The Willamette Radio Workshop, one that continued for multiple years and performances.
Producer's Notes
This is the second effort by Re-Imagined Radio to explore radio storytelling as civic engagement through community art and performance.
Read the Re-Imagined Radio origin story→
Our first performance was "The War of the Worlds" in October. The overarching mission for Re-Imagined Radio is combining multimedia and curation to produce interactive installations and social performance works by re-creating legendary radio dramas in front of live audiences.
Pre-performance singing is provided by The Holly Jolly Singers, directed by Bennett Bailey, all from Portland, Oregon.
The Willamette Radio Workshop, directed by Sam A. Mowry, is also from Portland. They provided our first ever performance, "The War of the Worlds," in October of this year.
Their performance tonight is based on the December 23, 1938 episode of The Campbell Playhouse starring Orson Welles as Ebeneezer Scrooge, and featuring other members of the former The Mercury Theatre on the Air. Following the response to the October 30, 1938 radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds, Campbell Soup became the sponsor for Mercury Theatre on the Air. The program name was changed to The Campbell Playhouse. The first performance under this new name was "Rebecca," December 9, 1938.
Before tonight's performance we offer a silent auction to benefit the Creative Media & Digital Culture
program at Washington State University. Items in the auction include website design, three months of
keyword SEO, a guitar, exercise equipment and more.
— John F. Barber
Promotion
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