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A Night in the Ukraine
1st Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 26th December 2007 at 1415-1500
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Above The Title Productions Ltd for BBC Radio 4
Synopsis
A new radio version of the award winning Broadway Show
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A Night in the Ukraine formed the second act of a very successful 1979 West End Show which transferred to Broadway in 1980. The first act, A Day in Hollywood, was a musical revue set in the lobby of Grauman's Chinese Theatre to a mixture of Broadway tunes. However eleven of that year's Tony nominations and two Tony Awards went to A Night in the Ukraine, a pastiche of Chekhov's one-act play 'The Bear', which features thinly disguised Marx Brothers invading a bastion of the privileged classes.
Cast
Serge B. Samovar, a Moscow Lawyer Michael Roberts
Carlo, her Italian Footman Frank Lazarus
Mrs. Pavlenko, a Rich Widow Lorelei King
The Announcer Graham Hoadly
Nina, Mrs. Pavlenko's Daughter Jessica Martin
Gino Graham Hoadly
Constantine, a Coachman Stephen Carlile
Recorded at
The New Players Theatre London UK
Recorded on
16th September 2007 in front of a live audience of 275, One of them was me!
Recording Engineer
Spot Fx
Music Director
Comment by Dirk Maggs
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Comment by David Williams
This is the very first time I have ever been to the recording of a live show. I was very kindly invited by the production company.
The first thing I have to say, is that I had never heard of the The New Players Theatre London and had to use Google to find it!
I have to say I did enjoy the show, it was well worth the effort of getting there. It was nice to see familiar voices in the flesh so to speak, it was jut sad that we could not stay after the show to talk to Dirk and the cast, as Donna (the wife who is a staff nurse) had an early start, we travelled to London on public transport. Hopefully one day I will get the chance to talk to some of the cast.
It will be interesting to hear the recorded version as compared to my memory of the live version.
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1 Episode of 45 Minutes
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