University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 29, 1987
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Imagine
Old time radio show relies on audience's imagination
By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
Blue, green, red, yellow and black wires stream out of the electronic console toward 12 microphones, creating a swirling maze on the floor.
Three microphones are aimed at a small door, two concrete slabs and a table, which holds such instruments as the one in the bottle and a bag of chip pots.
Performers, dressed in street clothes, are bunched around two microphones, their heads bobbing in when they have a line.
What about costumes?
"In radio theater, the audience gets to wear the costumes," said Darrell Brogad, program director at KANU-FM 91.5.
For 90 minutes Saturday, an audience at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets, and folks listen at home dressed up to enjoy comedy skits performed an old-fashioned way
by the Imagination Workshop radio theater.
The workshop, which has aired four to six times a year since 1983, resembles the golden radio shows that have been broadcast electronic sound mixing and stereo.
"I still consider it a lost art," Brogdan said.
But the audience showed great interest, laughing often and craning their necks to see the sound effects performed.
The workshop, which also does drama, uses some original stories, but most are adapted for radio and we show today for radio, Brodad said.
Performing for the ear also is different.
"There is a technique for writing for the ear. Some people haven't quite mastered it yet," he said.
Performing for the ear also.
you sound," Richard Gorell, KU assistant history instructor, said.
"You have to think about how
Gorell said he could use only his voice to create a character since the audience couldn't see the character, so he would meet the character until he spoke.
Joann Chaffee, a Leawood resident, said she sometimes felt constrained by the microphone.
Bill Kelly, KU professor emeritus of law, said acting out the part helped create the right voice.
"In the next scene I choke, so I'll grab my throat," he said.
"It's wonderful, though, not to memorize a script. That's what I like the best," she said.
Being invisible, however, allowed the performers to laugh at their own lines and remain in character
Also vital for characterization are sound effects.
Many are taped in advance, including wind and Gregorian chanting. Other sounds are performed live.
Top left: Donna Park, Lawrence, blows through a straw into a glass of water to create the sound of a boiling vat of oil. Top right: Lawrence bills Kelly, left; Larry Schnoeier, graduate student, center; and Richard Gorel rehearse a skit before the final broadcast. Above: Richard Skoonberg, Lawrence, adds a nasal tone to his voice to create one of his many characters during the program.
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