May 20-21, 2022 - 7 p.m.
FIBBER
McGEE & MOLLY:
FIBBER MAKES A HAPPY FACE
Carpenter Square Theatre
continues in May with more Old Time Radio shows in its series known as “CST
LiveOnline!” At 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 20-21, the theater, in
cooperation with RK-1 Studios, will present an episode of The Fibber McGee and
Molly show from 1943 titled “Fibber Has a Happy Face.” Director Rhonda Clark has
gathered a cast of well-known performers in the Oklahoma City area, including
Mike Waugh, Lilli Bassett, Terry Veal, Don Reece, and Albert Bostick.
Carpenter Square broadcasts
their radio-with-video shows live from RK-1 Studios, located near Scissortail
Park in downtown Oklahoma City. The shows can be viewed on the Carpenter Square
Theatre YouTube channel. To find it easily, visit carpentersquare.com, and on
the home page click on the link “CST LiveOnline! FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY.”
Viewing is free, but the theater certainly appreciates donations, as well as
donations for RK-1 Studios who are providing their services for free.
Click Here to
visit the CST YouTube Channel

“Fibber McGee and Molly” was
a radio comedy series that ran from 1930-1959. It was one of the most popular
and enduring radio series of its time and ran on NBC radio for most of those
years. Later, the characters were featured in several films. The title
characters were created by Jim and Marian Jordan, a real-life husband and wife
team that had met in their hometown of Peoria, Illinois, and began working in
radio in the 1920s. “Fibber McGee and Molly” followed the adventures of a
working-class couple, a habitual storyteller and his sometimes terse, but always
loving wife, Molly, who live in the mythical community of Wistful Vista. The
show included several recurring characters – townspeople of Wistful Vista – and
several are included in this episode, such as Doc, Mr. Wilcox, Mrs. Uppington,
Mr. Old Timer, and Teeny. Having produced three Fibber shows previously, the
theater is excited to return to the beloved radio series that was inducted into
the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1989. Carpenter Square’s broadcasts include
live sound effects that one would have heard on the radio, with special care for
Fibber’s infamous over-stuffed closet...along with the
added bonus of 1940s-era costumes for the cast.
Carpenter Square’s “CST
LiveOnline!” first aired for seven months in 2020 while the theater itself was
closed during the COVID-19 shutdown, but the theater recently returned to Old
Time Radio broadcasts this year in March. The theater is currently closed due to
construction delays at its new venue, but still wants to offer entertainment to
the community. As mentioned above, to tune into the latest radio broadcast,
visit the theater’s website at carpentersquare.com. On the home page, click on
the “CST LiveOnline! FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY” link. This takes viewers directly
to Carpenter Square Theatre’s YouTube channel. Also, folks may visit YouTube,
search for Carpenter Square Theatre, and subscribe to the theater’s channel,
which is free. Past radio shows and other CST videos are posted there for the
public’s enjoyment. If someone must miss the live-stream performances, an
archive video is always posted on the theater’s YouTube channel within a few
days after the live event, so the public can tune in at their convenience.
Carpenter Square Theatre is
supported in part by the Oklahoma Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts,
Kirkpatrick Family Fund, Inasmuch Foundation, and Allied Arts.
For more information, email
csttix@coxinet.net or call 405-232-6500.
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Dates to be announced
PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE
a comedy by Steve Martin
Winner!
1996 Outer Critics Circle Award, Best Off Broadway Play

This long running Off
Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian
cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his
theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with
cubism. In his first comedy for the stage, the popular actor and screenwriter
plays fast and loose with fact, fame, and fortune as
these two geniuses muse (and argue) about the century’s achievements and
prospects, as well as other fanciful topics, with infectious dizziness.
Bystanders, including Picasso’s agent, the bartender and his mistress, Picasso’s
date, an elderly philosopher, and an idiotic inventor introduce additional
flourishes of humor. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the
Lapin Agile is a charismatic dark-haired visitor in blue suede shoes time warped
in from the 1950s.
(CST first produced “Picasso”
in 2000 in Season 16. Audiences loved its quirky humor. There is a 2017 revised
version that we will be presenting.)
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