Don’t be surprised if the show appears to be already started as you enter the theatre and are ushered to your seats. On stage, people working for the radio station arrive. Maintenance people change light bulbs, others answer phones, and orchestra members start tuning up their instruments. When everyone is seated and the house lights go down, the first words are spoken on stage and all the play’s characters are engaged in preparing for the one hour radio show. It’s here that the only problem occurs in a night of otherwise fine entertainment. The preparation is too long. The audience becomes antsy. It goes on for about half an hour, laying the ground work for all the character’s histories and personality quirks, but it can easily be done in half the time.

Once the radio show begins it’s a delightful evening that takes you back to a time older members of the audience will remember. But younger people will also enjoy the historic journey, not to mention the humor and musical entertainment.

Though there are many fine tunes, like Blue Moon and Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, the play characteristically doesn’t end on one of them. When the show’s over, we are once again taken behind the scenes only this time it’s short and sweet, and we are left with the impression that we have completed our visual journey into a past when sound was king. For tickets or more information call (707) 523-4185 or visit www6thstreetplayhouse.com.

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