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Students in the North Hunterdon Theater Organization will perform
their first-ever radio theater production, The Lost World, on October 24,
29, and 30. The performance will be live-streamed to home audiences in the
style of the 1930's radio drama, complete with an announcer (senior Grace
Gartlgruber) and vintage-style radio commercials. The play is based on the
1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and adapted for audio performance by
John de Lancie from a script de Lancie wrote with Nat Segaloff.
Conan Doyle's novel explores the possibility of real-life dinosaurs
still living in South America. The play follows an Amazonian expedition of
scientists, among whom is one of Conan Doyle's favorite fictitious characters,
the hot-headed and aggressive Professor Challenger, played by North Hunterdon
senior Joseph McDevitt. Accompanied by journalist Ned Malone (senior
Evan Tomljanovich), explorer Sir John Roxton (senior Sam Montemurro),
and female scientist Professor Summerlee (senior Alicia Chapman),
Challenger leads the quest to find prehistoric life in the 20th century, while
Malone faithfully reports all to his editor at the Daily Gazette, Angus McArdle
(senior Raymond Setaro). Part of Malone's motivation for the journey is to
impress his fickle fiancé, Gladys Hungerton (senior Annie Meyer).
Other characters in the story are scientists Dr. Meldrum (senior Amelia
Milza) and Dr. Illingworth (senior Alexander Paige), the South American
guide Gomez (sophomore Daniel Decker), the Copy Boy (sophomore Philip
Mathew), Sir George Beaumont (senior Bobby Fasciano), a Tribal Chief
(sophomore Alek Lipinski) and an Ape King (Grace Gartlgruber). Actors
recording crowd noises for the production are Maggie Dean, Kayla French,
Hanorah Hyland, Anneliese Johnson, Brynn Long, Cassandra
Mitros, Vanessa Moline, Samantha Muller, Morgan Treece, and
Avery Wrba. Anna Kuglin is the student Stage Manager.
Faculty advisors for the production are director Mary Meo, theater
coordinators Regina Cavo and Karen Ellis, technical theater coach Kevin
Byrne, crew director Aaron Willsey, and promotions agents Jacqueline
Rhoads and Mary Piazza.
Show times are 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 24, Thursday,
October 29, and Friday, October 30. Access to the password-protected
live audio of the show is $5 per ticket, and can be obtained at: www.NHTO.
booktix.com. The livestream of the show is performed by special permission
with Dramatic Publishing Company, for private, in-home audiences only.
"America, to me, is freedom." ~ Willie Nelson
