The original Broadway cast of "The 1940's Radio Hour" in an appearance on The Merv Griffin TV show in 1980.
The Radio Hour is a musical by Walton Jones. Using popular songs from the 1940s, it portrays the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade on the New York radio station WOV in December 1942
A little New York City radio station called WOV records a broadcast for American soldiers serving overseas in World War II. The narrative concerns the harassed producer, the drunken lead singer, the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mic, and the young trumpet player who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller.
Ginger Brooks
A bubble-headed waitress-turned-singer. She has a pinup, Betty Grable look with lots of makeup (Played by Crissy Wilzak)
Clifton A. Feddington
The overworked General Mgr. (Josef Sommer)
Ann Collier
The 'old standard' in the Radio show since its start in 1936. She sings like Dinah Shore, Doris Day, and Peggy Lee all rolled into one. She is a secretary by day, and is dating Johnny (Mary Cleere Haran)
Johnny Cantone
Featured vocalist and Sinatra fan. He's an ex-boxer and a rough guy who drinks too much and has a voice like velvet (Jeff Keller)
Geneva Lee Browne
The southern Belle of WOV got her start in music at age 17 performing in local Swing ballrooms around the Atlanta area (Dee Dee Bridgewater)
Neal Tilden
A cab driver by day and singer, dancer, and choreographer at night. He aspires to the 'featured vocalist' slot (Joe Grifasi)
B.J. Gibson
The third of the Gibson brothers to work for the Cavalcade. He is squeaky-clean, good looking, and a preppy student at Yale (Stephen James)
Connie Miller
A 17-year-old bobbysoxer from Ogden, Utah. She is perennially in love and runs an elevator by day (Kathy Andrini)
Pops Bailey
A crotchety, wizened stage doorkeeper who is a racing bookie on the company phone, reads hidden copies Show Girl magazine (Arny Freeman)
Lou Cohn
A big shot (at least in his own mind) who tries to impress the girls and is sometimes obnoxious. Runs the show and sound (Merwin Goldsmith)
Wally Ferguson
A young hopeful from Altoona, Pennsylvania, who came to NYC to work for his uncle at the drugstore to get his big show-biz break (Jack Hallett)
Biff Baker
A young trumpet player with the Zoot Doubleman orchestra who will be leaving after the concert for Army duty (John Doolittle)
Stanley
A lugs cable and runs around , lives in the control booth (John Sloman)
Zoot Doubleman
The WOV Orchestra Leader (Stanley Lebowsky)
7 Drama Desk Nominations
Crissy Wilczak,(stage name Wilzak) played Ginger Brooks, and was also in the original cast of "A Chorus Line" , in "Seesaw" starring Lucie Arnaz, and "The Roast" with Carl & Rob Reiner and was featured on television's "Mork & Mindy" with Robin Williams and Pam Dawber..
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16 ноя 2021
