REHEARSING FOR THE HOLIDAYS WELCOME TO 1940S RADIO SHOW.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Set in a seedy radio station the week before Christmas 1942, Palmdale Playhouse's ``The 1940s Radio Hour'' offers comedy and songs, from ``Boogie Woogie Bugle bugle, brass wind musical instrument consisting of a conical tube coiled once upon itself, capable of producing five or six harmonics. It is usually in G or B flat. Boy'' to ``Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Little Christmas, or Nollaig Bheag in the Irish language, is one of the traditional names in Ireland for January 6, more commonly known in the rest of the world as the Epiphany. .'' ``Radio Hour'' premiered at the Playhouse in 1997 and has been brought back as part of the ``Best of 10'' to celebrate the theater's 10th year. ``What you will come in to is if you were a studio audience at a radio broadcast in 1942,'' director Steve Felty said. With no set changes and minimal lighting, it might seem an easy play to stage. But Felty found having all 13 cast members on stage all the time for two hours was more difficult than he expected. ``It's like three-dimensional chess   ,'' Felty said.
So you can look at it at one level but then you have to get above it and
look at it another way. It was hard, very hard.''
Added to this was the fact that the cast wasn't finalized until four weeks ago. One actor was in an accident and couldn't continue and several other actors rehearsed for weeks only to drop out due to time constraints. ``The way it was spaced out, we didn't even get a rhythm until four weeks ago, because we didn't have all the cast,'' Felty said. ``Everyone in the cast is onstage from the beginning to end of the show, so there's no people leaving or coming on, no new characters being introduced. The actors themselves had to learn to work as a unit, as one unit, and when somebody would drop out it was like taking a gear out of a motor. It doesn't run as well.'' Despite all this, Felty is pleased with the cast members, who collaborated in the staging. ``To say that I'm the director is just something in title only because everybody in this cast has brought something into this play. We've worked out gags, we've worked out funny and different ways of doing things that many times I wouldn't have thought of and they did,'' Felty said. The show will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday this weekend and next. Shows this weekend are $10 for adults and $5 for students, seniors, military and children 12 and younger. Next weekend, tickets are $14 for adults; $12 for seniors, military and students; and $10 for children 12 and under. The theater is at 38334 10th St. E. For more information, call (661) 267-5685. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 3 -- color) In ``The 1940s Radio Hour,'' Ed Vega and David Alan Smith For other persons named Alan Smith, see Alan Smith (disambiguation). Alan Smith (born 28 October 1980 in Rothwell, Leeds, West Yorkshire) is an English professional football player. make sound effects sound effects Noun, pl sounds artificially produced to make a play, esp. a radio play, more realistic sound effects npl → efectos mpl sonoros , above. Left, director Steve Felty, right, works with cast members, from left, Barbara Adams This article is about the British Egyptologist. For the American juror, see Trekkie#Trekkie controversy. Barbara Georgina Adams (February 19 1945 – June 26 2002) was a British Egyptologist. , Jenny Chaney and Alberto Andrade Alberto Manuel Andrade Carmona (born December 24, 1943) is a Peruvian politician, born in Lima and mayor of that city from 1996 to 2002. Trained as a lawyer at the National University of San Marcos, he was a supporter of the Popular Christian Party until he founded his own . Below, cast members sing around the microphones. From left are Bob Meadows, Constance Hansen, Barbara Adams, Steve Willis Steve Willis could refer to the following people:
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