Raconteur Radio Returns to the Barron Arts Center with
Part of The Dr. Stephen Kaplan “A Taste of the Arts” Lecture Series
WHEN: Thursday Evening, September 27, 7:30 PM
WHERE: Barron Arts Center, 582 Rahway Ave., Woodbridge
TICKETS: Free. Reservations are required. Please call 732.634.0413.
In celebration of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 116th birthday, Raconteur Radio will return to the BAC to perform a radio-style stage production of his classic work, The Great Gatsby.
Complete with a dazzling array of costumes, lighting, sound effects and musical interludes, the performance will feature the talents of Rac Rad Regulars Carlyle Owens, Laurence Mintz, Francesca Tedeschi, Michael Jarmus and Alex Dawson.
Raconteur Radio, a theater group dedicated to the weird, wonderful, and beautifully retro, will put a vintage spin on Gatsby, with period costumes, theatrical lighting, and sound effects that hearken back to classic entertainment. These elements, in combination with the architecturally stunning backdrop supplied by Woodbridge’s historic Barron Arts
Center, will transport the audience directly to the heart of the Roaring Twenties.
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple." That promise became The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's best known, and arguably finest, work. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies our country's most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings.
About Raconteur Radio
Raconteur Radio Productions is an offshoot of The Raconteur—a bygone bookstore in Meutchen, NJ. Peformances occur in a variety of venues across the state: libraries, senior citizen centers, community/art centers, restaurants, bars, high schools, grammar schools and, on occasion, private homes. Past stagings include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea; Sunset Boulevard; Green Hornet; The Final Problem (Sherlock Holmes), The Third Man; Sorry, Wrong Number; The Maltese Falcon; The Hitchhiker; The Abominable Snowman; The Most Dangerous Game; Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein; A Christmas Carol; 84 Charing Cross Road; War of the Worlds, and Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (featuring Welcome Back Kotter's Bobby Hegyes in the role of Chico Marx).
Upcoming productions include Rebecca; Robin Hood; Dark Shadows; The Lone Ranger; Flash Gordon on the Planet Mongo; Casablanca; The Hobbit; Empire Strikes Back; The Thing; The Shadow; African Queen; and Odd Man Out.
About the Barron Arts Center – Woodbridge Township’s Center for the Arts
The Barron Arts Center, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, recently celebrated its 130th Anniversary. With the support of the Woodbridge Township Cultural Arts Commission and under the direction of Cynthia Knight, the Barron Arts Center offers programming to the public free of charge.
Donations are appreciated and are essential to the continuation of free quality arts programs and exhibits. The Barron Arts Center always accepts donations for The Mayor’s Food Bank & The Woodbridge Animal Shelter.
