You won’t find the late Jerry Kaufherr’s name among the cast members of our presentations,

of course, but his example as a performer and supporter of his fellow unionists must be acknowledged. His generous bequest launched the KMRC - The Kaufherr Members Resource Center - a large comfortable space in the unions’ Chicago headquarters that provides AFTRA and SAG members with the tools (audio & video studios, computers, script and videotape library) and the teachers, to improve their prosfessionalism. The AFTRA/SAG Senior Radio Players have used it as their rehearsal hall since its inception in 2001.

 

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All of the members of the AFTRA/SAG Senior Radio Players are members of The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists or The Screen Actors Guild..

 

  
 
 

 
 

 

 

 

Schedule

All shows will be performed at the Chicago Cultural Center in the Claudia Cassidy Theatre and will start at 7p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.). The Chicago Cultural Center is located at 77 W. Randolph (at Michigan Avenue) and the Claudia Cassidy Theatre is on the 2nd Floor. The admission is free and reservations are not required, however seating is on a first come, first served basis.

 

 

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

“Laura"

 

Otto Preminger directed the movie version using a great cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, and Vincent Price.  The film scored highly as a financial, artistic, and critical success.  The AFTRA/SAG Senior Radio Players have a well written radio adaptation of it, but admit they haven't been able to discover the date it was aired or even the program or network that broadcast it.  However, consider the fascinating plot line of this film noir:  A police detective investigates the murder of a very beautiful woman named Laura, and finds himself  falling in love with her.  Falling in love with her?  Come on!  That's right. It happens when he sees her portrait and hears memories of her recited by others.  There's a lot more to the story, and that's why you'll want to be seated on time for the show.

 

 

Thursday, July 16, 2009

"The Whistler"

Fog (originally broadcast September 20, 1942 on the CBS Radio Network)

Spooky! It's a foggy night on the waterfront as a sea captain and Danny, one of his crew (who is armed), are out to collect a long overdue debt owed to the sailor by the dangerous Duke Moran. En route, Danny falls, injures his head, and immediately loses his memory. In a panic, he runs from the captain. An hour later the police find the dead body of Duke Moran. Could it be that the amnesiac Danny pulled the trigger? Stay tuned.

 

"The Columbia Workshop"

Mr. Sycamore (originally broadcast July 4, 1937 on CBS)

In this lovely and highly imaginative tale, John Gwilt makes a decision. After twenty years of tramping through the streets of  his small town delivering mail in all kinds of weather, he's  going to quit his boring and fatiguing job and remain serene and stationary in his backyard for the rest of his life. He tells his wife Jane that he intends to become a tree! Go figure.

 

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

"Suspense"

On A Country Road (originally broadcast November 16, 1950 on the CBS Radio Network)

Another tingly radio drama from -- as the program's announcer used to say -- "radio's outstanding theater of thrills -- Suspense!"
This one is about a couple driving home at night using a short cut on an unfamiliar road. Their radio informs them that a psychotic woman patient who has a history of murder has escaped from a nearby institution armed with a meat cleaver. Just then their car comes to a stop -- out of gas -- and a woman starts pounding on it and yelling, "Let me in! Let me in! (GULP)

 

"The Baby Snooks Show"

Halloween (originally broadcast November 1, 1946 on NBC)

The actress was 51 years old and playing the role of a sometimes bratty but always inquisitive little girl in a highly successful radio series. Her name was Fanny Brice, a one-time chorus girl who went on to star in the Ziegfeld Follies, night clubs, recordings, and network radio. In this episode, Snooks and her "daddy", Hanley Stafford, spend a Halloween evening together. You can shrug off the plot, but the dialog is often hilarious.

 

Thursday, December 10, 2009

"Lux Radio Theater"

It's a Wonderful Life (originally broadcast March 10, 1947 on the CBS Radio Network)

Consider George Bailey of Bedford Falls, NY: It's Christmas Eve, 1946, and he's deeply in the dumps -- even considering suicide Cut to Heaven -- yes, Heaven -- where an angel named Clarence has been assigned to keeping George alive -- if possible. It is possible, and, as you probably know, the rest of the story plots George’s ups and downs, and there are some very special ups: his courtship and marriage to Mary and the birth of their babies; his taking over his father's business, the Building and Loan Association; his brother arriving home from the war as a hero. But then Uncle Billy misplaces $8,000.00 of the depositors money, and his baby gets sick. George, in a mixture of anger and self pity, wishes he'd never been born, and his angel Clarence obliges him. And George painfully learns that life -- despite all of its hard times and uncertainty -- is better than death. Don't miss this radio play!

The AFTRA/SAG Senior Radio Players invite you to any or all of their re-creations.

 

The admission is free. Just be sure to bring your imagination.