WVWC Department of Theatre and Dance Presents “A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol” December 1st-3rd

November 18, 2022

Mountaineer News

WVWC News Release

BUCKHANNON - The West Virginia Wesleyan College Department of Theatre and Dance presents the Walton Jones, David Wohl and Faye Greenburg play, “A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol.”

“A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol” will run December 1,2 and 3 at 8 p.m. with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. in the Colonial Theatre. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, and $5 for students and the WVWC community.

A sequel of “The 1940s Radio Hour,” the play is set during Christmas Eve 1943, and the Feddington Players are now broadcasting from a hole-in-the-wall studio in Newark, New Jersey. They are to present their contemporary “take” on Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.”

Whether it’s the noisy plumbing, missed cues, electrical blackouts or the over-the-top theatrics of veteran actor, but radio novice, William St. Claire, this radio show is an entertaining excursion into the mayhem and madness of a live radio show. The acting will show you a simultaneously comedic and heart-wrenching dramatic climax.

“A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol” is directed by Gregory Mach, with musical direction by Dr. Dan Hughes, set and lighting design by Keith Saine, and costume design by Elizabeth Tweel ‘23.

The cast of “A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol” includes

• Anna Zurbuch ‘25 from Charleston, West Virginia, as Toots Navarre;

• Owen Hess ‘24 from Bridgeport, West Virginia, as Isadore “Buzz” Crenshaw;

• Ashton Cork ‘23 from Salem, West Virginia, as Esther Lewis Purnie;

• Ashton Nardella ‘26 from Bridgeport, West Virginia, as Harold J. Mullins;

• Jackson Johnson ‘22 from Charleston, West Virginia, as Fritz Canigliaro;

• Timothy Walker ‘23 from Clarksburg, West Virginia, as Clifton Feddington;

• Anthony Damcott ‘23 from Akron, Ohio, Charles “Cholly” Butts;

• Chelyan Smith ‘23 from Cross Lanes, West Virginia, as Margie O’Brien;

• Sydney Stewart ‘25 from Barboursville, West Virginia, as Judith Davenport;

• Iris Kolenich ‘23 from Buckhannon, West Virginia, as Sally Simpson;

• Ben Long ‘25 from Buckhannon, West Virginia, as “Little” Jackie Sparks;

• Derek Hess ’23 from Bridgeport, West Virginia, as William St. Claire.