The 1940's Radio Hour

The 1940's Radio Hour

1979 Broadway Playbill
Music Various Composers
Lyrics Various Lyricists
Book Walton Jones
Productions 1979 Broadway

The 1940's Radio Hour is a Play with Music by Walton Jones. Full of 1940s music, dancing and old-time sound effects the play portrays the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade on the New York radio station WOV in December 1942.

Plot

Fabled WOV, a seedy little New York radio station, takes to the air on December 21, 1942 (about a year into the U.S. involvement in World War II), this time to record a broadcast for the troops overseas.[1]

The narrative concerns the harassed producer, the leading singer who is often drunk, the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mic, and the young trumpet-player who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller.

Characters

List of Musical Numbers

Awards and nominations

Original Broadway production

Year Award Category Nominee Result
1980 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Musical Nominated
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Joe Grifasi Nominated
Jeff Keller Nominated
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Crissy Wilzak Nominated
Outstanding Director of a Musical Walton Jones Nominated
Outstanding Costume Design William Ivey Long Nominated
Theatre World Award Stephen James Won

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