Sunday Showcase

Summertime is a good time for lighter fare...August brings us a variety show that is super-fun and super-easy to listen to -- "The Camel Comedy Caravan with Garry Moore and Jimmy Durante." (whew - just call it the Jimmy Durante Show)

Remember Jimmy Durante?  A fellow so famous for so many decades that just a caricature of his face was once enough to elicit a smile. His outsized "Schnozz" matched the outsized personality from the 1920s through the 1970s. You know him, even if you think you don't -- because even today his catchphrases and songs have endured. You can hear Durante singing in the "Joker" movie of 2019, imitated in the "Lion King," and showing up every year in beloved animated Christmas specials. 

So for this Audion Original, Pete Lutz decided to revisit this unique talent, imagining a fresh 1940s episode of the Comedy Caravan with on-air partner Garry Moore, plus guest stars Sydney Greenstreet and Rose Marie. It's a half-hour of the kind of variety show that radio did so well. "Everyone wants ta' get inta de act!" and they do for a marvelous half hour of mirth and music...

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The Narada Radio Company, a significant contributor to Sonic Summerstock Playhouse over the past decade, is back again this year with a major effort. Producer Pete Lutz is proud to bring you his adaptation of the Orson Welles film, THE STRANGER! Loosely attributed to the lost Old-Time Radio series, "This is Hollywood", from the late 1940s, Narada presents a re-imagining of what their radio adaptation of the tense, thrilling film, about a Nazi hunter and his prey, might have been like. With a huge cast of Narada favorites!

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Welcome to Sunday Showcase! This week host Jack gives us a pair of Pete's with Narada Radio Company bringing us "The Stranger" from Sonic Summerstock 16.8, and The Jimmy Durante Show from Project Audion #73!

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We're back with Mutual Presents and more misadventures with Adventures with Maisie double-feature who brings in our summer with "Maisie & The Dueling Actors" and "Maisie Sells Restoro Skin-Rejuvenator"!

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In our encore performance from Project Audion this season, Larry Groebe returns again to ask what do you do if you grew up listening the classic dramatic series on the radio, then found a career writing TV comedy for Bob Hope, and now, decades later, you still harbor fond feelings about those radio shows of your youth? Well, if you're Robert L. Mills, you write shows like the one you're about to hear.  It's a takeoff of a certain famous detective whose name sounds awfully similar to OUR show's hero, named Stan Slade. The original "Adventures of Sam Spade" was broadcast in the late 1940s and early '50s. It starred Howard Duff as the detective created by Dashiell Hammett. It was a fun show that never took itself entirely seriously. Mr Mills has nudged his tribute a little further into the toungue-in-cheek -- or should I say toungue in beak? -territory, reuniting the detective with his old adversaries from the Maltese Falcon movie, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Everyone in our cast gets to have some fun with this adventure of Stan Slade, Detective, entitled "The Burmese Penguin Caper". 

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In the hazy air of smoky Nova Scotia we're bringing two features to clear the skies and lighten your load for Sunday Showcase with Sonic Summerstock 16.7 and Mutual Presents 6.16!

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There are few people in this world that Jack admires as equally as the incredible Robert Arnold from "Spoken Signal Podcast". He checks in with the latest offering with his "Black Dog" series.

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Welcome back to Mutual Presents! With the Scarlet Queen permanently at dock, it's time for some mystery with another great contribution to story and sound- The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes! Airing from 1939-1946, this instant classic starred the great Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. We begin our series with "The Bruce Partington Plans" and "The Case of the Retired Colourman"!

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This week Clinton, from comedy4cast, presents a one-man show about a two-man show at the Playhouse! Laugh loud to his take on "The Bob & Ray Show," featuring classic sketches by the legendary radio (and TV) comedy team of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding.

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Welcome to Sunday Showcase for August 10th! This week we begin with Sonic Summerstock Playhouse #16.6, Mutual Presents Sherlock Holmes #6.15, and Sonic Speaks 0706: Talking Spoken Signal with Robert Arnold!

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