The Ross Community Center Roadshow

Tom Cherry’s Old Time Radio Show went on the road to the Ross Community Center to help celebrate their International Festival this past Saturday (September 21, 2019)! It was a beautiful day to share the magic of radio! Thank you to the kind folks at Ross for inviting the radio gang to such a worthy event! More thanks to Sean Orlosky, Wendy Carpenter, Gabe Carpenter, Bob Green, Katy Wolfe, Cliff Lowe and Dalton Knox for sharing their time and talent!

Photograph by Cindy Lowe

The Radio Gang Strikes Again!

Larry Beck, Sean Orlosky, Todd Terrell, Wendy Carpenter, Angela Gick and Bob Green perform a scene from MY FRIEND IRMA (June 22, 2019). Photo by Cindy Lowe

Halloweenies

Happy Halloween from the cast and the crew (Bob Green, Tom Cherry, Larry Beck, Jerry and Judy Cole, Jeff Shull, Sean Orlosky, Katy Wolfe, Dalton Knox, Jeff Rapkin, Rita Wessel, Gabe Carpenter, and Wendy Carpenter) of Tom Cherry's Old Time Radio Show!

The Radio Gang Rides Again!

Tom Cherry's Old Time Radio Show began its sixth season at the Farmland Center Community on February 25th with these talented actors and actresses: Sean Smith, Marty Grubbs, Sean Orlosky, Katy Wolfe, Angela Gick, Jeff Rapkin, Jeff Shull, Missy Donahue, Bob Green, Wendy Carpenter and the invisible Sean Heline! More radio fun on March 25th at 3:00 pm!
Photograph by Cliff Lowe

Waiting for Godot (2016)

The cast of Think, Dog's production of Waiting for Godot: Tom Cherry as Vladimir, Barry McMullen as Estragon, Bob Green as Pozzo, and Sean Orlosky as Lucky.
Photograph by Taylor Watkins.

Adieu! Adieu!

Last Friday night we bid adieu to Waiting for Godot. Thank you to all the kind folks who visited with us wayfarers in the bog and those champion people who gave up their time to volunteer with the production. I want to thank Taylor Watkins and Thomas Nelson III for all of their outstanding work, Wendy Carpenter for her mad makeup skills and to my brilliant cast mates (Barry McMullen, Bob Green, Sean Orlosky and Cody Lee) for making life in the wasteland such a rich and rewarding experience. Thank you to our prolific director Lysa Franklin for guiding us on our journey through the imagination of Beckett. I consider myself blessed to have done two shows with Lysa as my director this year and I hope there many more opportunities in the future!

And finally thank you Lysa and Barry for Think, Dog! Productions! It’s nice to know there is a place in Muncie, Indiana for challenging and experimental work that allows for risk and stretches the boundaries of theatre. May the Dog forever bark loud and mightily!

Photograph by John Lee

Get Lucky

Think, Dog Productions presents:

Waiting for Godot at the Pub Theater

Located above the Heorot in DWNTWN Muncie

Performances are September 16,17, 23, 24, and 30 at 7:30pm

Tickets are $10 ($5 with student ID) and can be reserved in advance and purchased at the door (cash or card). Message or comment to reserve your tickets, as seating is limited. To reserve tickets by phone, call (765) 741-0591.

Samuel Beckett’s WfG tells the simple and unconventional tale of two clownish wayfarers and their fruitless pursuits. Occasionally joined by an imperious master and his downcast slave, Vladimir and Estragon do their best to pass the time while they wait.

An icon of the Absurdist genre, described as “the quintessence of existentialism,” WfG is firstly one of the funniest and most absorbing pieces of drama we've yet to bring you!

Cast:

Tom Cherry as Vladimir 

Barry McMullen as Estragon 

Sean Orlosky as Lucky 

Bob Green as Pozzo 

Cody Lee as the Boy

Directed by Lysa Franklin

Photograph by Thomas Nelson III

Rehearsing for Godot

Barry McMullen (Left), Sean Orlosky (That's his arm holding the basket), Tom Cherry (That's me! The fat guy in the middle) and Bob Green (Right) are rehearsing a scene for Think, Dog! Productions' version of Waiting for Godot (August 2016).
Photograph by Thomas Nelson III.

The Radio Gang in Action!

From the front page of The News-Gazette (3/30/16). Katy Wolfe, Jeff Rapkin, Jeff Shull, and Bob Green perform a scene from Gunsmoke. 
Photograph by Bill Richmond.

In Just One Week...

From left to right: Sean Orlosky as Bernardo de la Creme, Bob Green as The Major, and Sean Heline as Howard Fine. Tom Cherry (Hey, that's me!) is seated as Arlo Wazzo sans hat and froggy sunglasses.
Poster image by Sean Orlosky.

One Funky Halloween

It’s Halloween in Waffleville and Arlo Wazzo has opened his home to some truly disturbed individuals. Fortunately for him, they are his friends! However, when some clean Halloween fun conjures up some guests from the afterlife, pumpkin bowling is forgotten and a frightful farce ensues! It’s a night full of tricks and treats as psychics, werewolf dispatchers, historical figures, and a fanboy fry cook unite for One Funky Halloween!

 Based on characters from the local comic strip/public access sitcom Those Funky Idiots by Tom Cherry, One Funky Halloween brings Arlo Wazzo and the other citizens of Waffleville to the stage for an original comedy written and directed by Sean Orlosky. The talented cast includes Gabe Carpenter, Sean Heline, Sean Orlosky, Bob Green, Rita Wessel, Wendy Carpenter, Jeff Shull, Jeff Rapkin, and Tom Cherry.

Historical Farmland USA is proud to present One Funky Halloween at the Farmland Community Center (100 N. Main St, Farmland, Indiana) on October 23^rd, 24^th, and 30^th. These performances include dinner and dessert. The dinner portion of the evening begins at 6:30 pm with the show following at 7:00 pm. Tickets for the dinner and the show are $20.00 (Seniors: $18.00). Tickets for the show are $10.00.

For tickets and other information please call (765) 468-7631.

Opening Night with the Swanns

  Tonight is the night! Swann Song Christmas opens this evening at the Farmland Community Center at 7:00pm and runs for three weekends! It features a wonderful cast of actors that include Rita Wessel, Jerry and Judy Cole, Hannah Kirkpatrick, Bob Green, Katy Wolfe, and Sean Orlosky. I'm so proud of them all and I'm so proud of this show! Please come and let the Swann family and their friends entertain you! You won't be disappointed!   December 5-6-7; 13-14; 19-20
 Evenings 6:30pm meal; 7:00pm show
 Sunday 12:30pm meal; 1:00pm show
 $20 dinner & show, $18 seniors /students
 $10 for just the show
Farmland Community Center, 100 N. Main St
 Reservations 765-468-7631

The Swann Family

  Dill (Hannah Kirkpatrick), Mae (Rita Wessel), Loretta (Judy Cole), and Elmer (Jerry Cole) rehearse a musical number from Swann Song Christmas (November 23, 2014).   Photograph by Bob Green.

One Week from Today!

Opening just one week from today! The Swann family returns to Pine Knob and radio station WPIN to celebrate Christmas with some gospel favorites, homespun fun and beloved Christmas songs! Starring Rita Wessel, Judy Cole, Hannah Kirkpatrick, Jerry Cole, Bob Green, Katy Wolfe, and Sean Orlosky as "Grady Cash"! Swann Song Christmas, a mountain musical gift for the whole family this Christmas season!  
December 5-6-7; 13-14; 19-20
 Evenings 6:30pm meal; 7:00pm show
 Sunday 12:30pm meal; 1:00pm show
 $20 dinner & show, $18 seniors /students
 $10 for just the show   Farmland Community Center, 100 N. Main St
 Reservations 765-468-7631

Swann Song Christmas Rehearsal

  Some of the cast of Swann Song Christmas rehearse "Joy to the World" last Sunday night at the Farmland Center (November 16, 2014). Pictured left to right, Sean Orlosky, Hannah Kirkpatrick, Judy Cole, John Beatrice, and Jerry Cole.   Photograph by Bob Green.

Thursday

Thursday was a good day. I took the day off from Touchy Feely Fotos to hang out in Farmland with some wonderful people (You know, Sean Orlosky, Wendy Carpenter, Sean Heline, Bob Green, Missy Donahue, and Judy and Jerry Cole). We also performed a special episode of Tom Cherry’s Old Time Radio Show for a bus tour experiencing the wonders of Farmland. They were a fine audience, too! It was a fun show and we earned some good money for the Farmland Community Center. Later that same day, I auditioned for Indiana Public Radio’s Christmas production of The Gift of the Magi and yesterday I found out I’ll be part of the cast so Friday was a good day, too.

Basil Has Left the Building

The cast and crew of Chiller Thriller Theatre with Basil Q. Mylk-Bone: (Front, l-r) Judy Cole, Thomas Nelson III, Missy Donahue, Little Guy, Bob Green, Tony Morris with Murgatroyd dangling below. (Back, l-r) Sean Orlosky, Cliff Lowe, Tom Cherry, Jeff Shull, Jerry Cole, Sean Heline, and Cindy Lowe.

Chiller Thriller Theatre with Basil Q. Mylk-Bone is now over. Thank you to all the folks who attended and even more thanks to all the wonderful people, onstage and off, who made this fun experience possible. Making good shows with good people. Who can ask for anything more?

Radio X

  This Saturday Tom Cherry's Old Time Radio Show enters Dimension X and presents a couple horrifying tales by the legendary Ray Bradbury! Starring Wendy Carpenter, Sean Orlosky, Sean Heline, Bob Green, Missy Donahue, Katy Wolfe, Angela Gick, our soundman and soundwoman Jerry and Judy Cole, and our special guest stars, Rita Wessel and Dana Jones! Plus Hoppy Hopper meets Dr. Frankenstein on The Happy Hoppy Hopper Show and the comical return of Those Funky Idiots! Also It Pays to Be Ignorant and a couple of your favorite songs by Katy Wolfe and Missy Donahue! That's this Saturday (8/23/14) at the Farmland Center at 3:00pm! Just one dollar per seat! Popcorn and refreshments will also be available!

Can't make it? You can also listen in by clicking the radio icon at http://www.farmlandindiana.org/ or on any mobile device through the TuneIn App, keyword Farmland Radio! Tune in, turn out, and we'll see you on the radio!

On the Road Again

This past Saturday the radio gang loaded up the radio winnebago and took Tom Cherry's Old Time Radio Show to the Muncie Delaware County Senior Center where we performed in front of an intimate and charming audience. It was a lot of fun and I'm sorry we didn't see you there! Thanks again to the best radio cast ever (Sean Heline, Bob Green, Missy Donahue, Katy Wolfe, Angela Gick, and Jerry and Judy Cole, of course!) for creating another funtastic show! More thanks to Mr. Bruce Reynolds for inviting us down and for being such a gracious host! If you like the radio gang to visit your event or venue, just call 765-468-7631.

Radio Review

  Just wanted to take a moment to reflect on another great episode of Tom Cherry’s Old Time Radio Show from this past Saturday. Little Women brought out one of our best audiences ever, packed with first time visitors, our beloved regulars, and an abundance of dear friends! When a great audience meets a great cast, you can feel the magic in the air! Plus we learned about “roachkickers” when we played It Pays to be Ignorant! Thanks again to Sean Orlosky, Missy Donahue, Sean Heline, Bob Green, Katy Wolfe, Angela Gick, Judy and Jerry Cole, and our special guests, Lauren Donahue and Dana Jones for being part of a truly memorable show! Already looking forward to our next show in August! Plus we take the show back on the road this Saturday as we perform at the Muncie Delaware County Senior Center at 1:00pm!