The Joe Bev Experience
Willoughby #10, Streets of Staccato #4, Sgt. Preston #1
This radio hour is an anthology series representing the depth and
breath of the 40-plus year career of Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) in
audio storytelling, from documentary to radio drama, and new and
classic installments of "Joe Bev's" Cartoon Carnival.
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http://www.downpour.com/the-whithering-of-willoughby-and-the-professor-their-ways-in-the-worlds-1It's Who's at the Door Day!
Joe Bev's childhood creations Willoughby and the Professor celebrate Who's at the Door Day. Bev. wrote the script, produced and directed the audio and performed all the voices in this comic radio play.
Also in the hour, the Victor Gates comedy cop show Streets of Staccato: "Stench of the City" part 4, plus Sgt. Preston: "A Call to the Storm" part 1 and "A Lion Without A Roar" by Pedro Pablo Sacristan, both performed by Joe Bev.
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Willoughby and the Professor is epic science-fiction fantasy comedy,
in the Monty Python/Terry Gilliam vein, about a boy and his
professor who travel willy-nilly across time and space in a failed
attempt to ''cure the world of all its ills''. Produced, directed,
and voiced by Joe Bevilacqua, with David Garland and Margaret
Juntwait, written by Joe Bevilacqua and Robert J. Cirasa, theme
music by David Garland, musical numbers written by Joe Bevilacqua,
performed by the Paul Salomone Trio with Paul on piano, Ed Fuqua on
bass, and Jim Mason on drums. Bevilacqua first created the
characters after his father bought him a Panasonic cassette recorder
in 1971 when he was 12 years old.
What the Critics Say:
"Descendents of Laurel and Hardy and Holmes and Watson, among
others, Willoughby and the Professor bring radio listeners along on
a series of adventures, often in exotic lands and always in the more
exotic land of the imagination. Judging from the hundreds of letters
WNYC Radio has received about 'Willoughby,' a couple of characters
who can go anywhere in the world while remaining inside the
listener's radio and head is just the ticket." (David Hinckley, New
York Daily News)
"There's not a whole lot of comedy on radio these days. We chose to
add 'Willoughby and the Professor' to our Contemporary Radio Humor
collection because it is unique. One person does all the voices.
Bevilacqua was a student of Daws Butler, a master of cartoon voices.
It is a very interesting program." (Ken Mueller, Radio Manager, The
Museum of Television and Radio)
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| The original Professor |
"13,000 Roaches in a Box. For most artists working in radio theatre,
the projects tend to be group efforts, with actors, a producer and
director, writers, engineers, and sound effects personal. But Joe
Bevilacqua is producing a successful radio theatre series almost
single-handedly. The great part about radio theatre is you can
portray 'any subject in any location in any circumstance, from
another part of the world to the past to another dimension. you can
create a whole world unto itself'. For example, in one episode,
there was a box full of 13,000 roaches and, through a mishap, the
box exploded. Even in TV or film, Bevilacqua asks, how could you
have 13,000 roaches raining down?" (Amy Hersh, Backstage)
"'The Willoughby and the Professor' radio cartoon series... part of
the 'Contemporary Radio Humor" series at the Museum of Television
and Radio, along with works of Stan Freberg, Bob and Ray and other
innovators. The globe-hopping adventures of Willoughby and his
professorial companion aired on WNYC Radio, produced by Joe
Bevilacqua who also did all the voices..." (Paul D .Colford, New
York Newsday)
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