{"id":32654,"date":"2018-06-04T08:40:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=32654"},"modified":"2018-06-04T08:40:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:40:55","slug":"radio-theater-makes-a-comeback-across-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/radio-theater-makes-a-comeback-across-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"“Radio theater makes a comeback across Minnesota”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source: Star Tribune<\/a> via Mike Hansgen)<\/p>\n

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when from out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of \u2026 a sound effects man with a pair of coconut shells.<\/p>\n

Radio theater, which was killed off by television, is being resurrected on the air \u2014 and the internet \u2014 across the country and across the state.<\/p>\n

In International Falls, Icebox Radio Theater produces a twice monthly podcast about a tiny northern Minnesota town isolated by a meteorite strike. \u201cWeird stuff keeps happening,\u201d said playwright Jeff Adams of the fictional town of Icebox, Minn. \u201cComedy and science fiction and maybe some dark touches now and then.\u201d<\/p>\n

St. Cloud\u2019s \u201cGranite City Radio Theatre\u201d serves up inside humor plus cameo appearances by the police chief and the university president. \u201cImagine \u2018Prairie Home Companion\u2019 was about your neighborhood,\u201d said Jo McMullen-Boyer, station manager of KVSC, which has produced the skit-and-music show four times a year for six years. \u201cIt\u2019s hyperlocal. It\u2019s poking fun at ourselves, but also with pride.\u201d<\/p>\n

And in the Twin Cities, the Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society embraces nostalgia by turning recordings of old radio shows into scripts, which it stages as live performances (including sound effects and commercials) before audiences at the James J. Hill Center in downtown St. Paul.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full story at the Star Tribune.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Star Tribune via Mike Hansgen) Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when from out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of \u2026 a sound effects man with a pair of coconut shells. Radio theater, which was killed off by television, is being resurrected on the air \u2014 and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[373,508,56,3781,3],"tags":[3422,7089,7090,7088],"class_list":["post-32654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-art-2","category-broadcasters","category-fm","category-news","tag-mike-k8rat","tag-radio-plays","tag-radio-theatre","tag-star-tribune"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8uG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31630,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/coast-to-coast-art-bell-w6obb-is-dead-at-72\/","url_meta":{"origin":32654,"position":0},"title":"Coast To Coast: Art Bell (W6OBB) is dead at 72","author":"Thomas","date":"April 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Chicago Tribune) Art Bell, a radio host best known for a paranormal-themed nightly show syndicated on hundreds of stations in the 1990s, died at his home in southern Nevada, authorities said Saturday. 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