This collection of stories features holiday tales for both young and old!
The Christmas That Almost Never Was
It is Christmas Eve at the North Pole, and Santa Claus has lost his “remembery.” Now only a child who has been good for a full year can save Christmas! Producer Joe Bevilacqua has unearthed this vintage 1940s recording of the charming Yuletide children’s radio play, written by and starring Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, and most of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. Also heard in this old time radio show is Don Messick, the voice of Boo Boo Bear, Ranger Smith, and Scooby Doo.
Daws Butler’s Halloween Happening
A new production of the classic radio play by the voice of Yogi Bear, Daws Butler!
Pedro’s Christmas Fables for Kids
Visit Santa at the North Pole, witness the birth of Jesus, go inside Noah’s Ark, and more with these timeless short stories that will charm and entertain your whole family! Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua and performed by him and his wife, Lorie Kellogg, these Christmas stories include “The Best Choice,” “A Forced Christmas,” “Bula the Traveler,” “Christmas Presents,” “The Please-O-Meter,” and “The Little Christmas Star.” Other stories include “The Tidy Toys,” “The Match and the Toy Men,” “Problems on the Ark,” “A Colorful Head,” “A Drop of Water,” and “Balloon Acrobatics.”
Pedro’s Halloween Fables for Kids
Goblins, fairies, witches, and ghosts! These short Halloween themed stories by noted Spanish children’s author Pedro Pablo Sacristan will charm and entertain your whole family! Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua, and performed by husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg, the stories include “The Creature in the Attic,” “A Different Take on Halloween,” “Waking Nightmare,” “The Evil Goblins,” “The Brave Boy and the Multicolored Ghost,” “The Monster in the Wardrobe,”“Forever a Monster,” “Bewitched Tongues,” The Funny-Looking Fairy,” and “The Evil Millisphore.”
A Waterlogg Double Feature
A Waterlogg double feature from husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg
First is “The Joe Bev Valentine Treat.” This is a charming hour of stories (real and fictional) about love hosted by veteran public radio producer Joe Bevilacqua.
The hour includes “Who’s Afraid of a Virginian’s Wrath,” “A Valentine from Graham Nash’s Mac,” “Ode to a Transfer Station or Love Poem for the Dump,” “A Mathematical Valentine,” “The Love of Lee the Horselogger,” “Marian the Librarian Finds Love at the Bookmobile,” and “Valentine Vignette.”
Second is “The Comedy-O-Rama Hour Valentine Special: Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg,” a comic one-hour radio play by Joe Bevilacqua, performed by Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg, plus Cousin Kenny Savoy, Jim Folly, Tom Giannazzo, and Reagan Bonjorno Leonard. Recorded in the woods of Napanoch, New York, and at Carolyn’s on Broadway in New York City.
The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry’s classic Christmas short story is charmingly told by Lorie Kellogg and Joe Bevilacqua. William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer, whose short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and clever twists.
Via Waterlogg Productions and Blackstone Audio, the husband and wife producing team created audio in many genres: radio drama and comedy, documentary, interview, biography, autobiography, and archival rarities.
On July 1, 2014, Joe Bevilacqua, aka Joe Bev, will release his 103rd audio title for Blackstone Audio: A Joe Bev Cartoon Collection - 7 Hours, 6 CDs.
Founded in 1987, Blackstone Audio is the largest independent audio book publisher in the United States, offering over 9,000 audiobooks. Blackstone selects titles which include exclusives, bestsellers, movie tie-ins. Blackstone releases 50-75 new audiobooks each month with simultaneous releases available on CD, MP3-CD, and digital formats.
Premieres at the Shadowland Theater in Ellenville, NY on
November 21st at 6 pm. All the proceeds will be donated to the
Ellenville Cooperative Nursery School.
Jonah Althouse is a five year old student at Ellenville Elementary School. When he was four, he woke up one day and said to his mom that he wanted to be a film maker.
Tickets for the show are available at the door. CALL 845-647-6405 FOR INFO
Jonah Althouse as Zodiac
All the proceeds will be
donated to the nursery school to help them stay open despite
financial hardships.
The evening will begin with the showing of a film Hatching House
Flies for Profit, an animated short produced, directed and
voiced by Joe Bevilacqua, and edited by Lorie Kellogg, part of
the Science-O-Rama online series, created for Imagine Science
Films and Popular Science Magazine. The film features Willoughby
and the Professor, characters created by Bevilacqua when he was
11 years old in 1972.
Herb Trimpe
"I used to think of myself as a bit of a child protegee but
nothing compared to five year old Jonah! It is truly astounding
to be able to develop a film idea into an exciting and
entertaining story as such a young age," admits Bevilacqua who
spent many hours creating the sound track to Jonah's film.
at WALMART $21.10
List price $34.95 (You save $13.85)
In addition to the screening there will be a raffle for an
original print from famed marvel illustrator Herb Trimpe. Mr.Trimpe is the original illustrator of the Incredible Hulk and
Wolverine.
Also raffled will be The Complete Pedro's 200 Fables Master
Collection (Audio Theater) Audiobook CD set, perfect for
bedtime, car rides, and classrooms, these whimsical tales will
delight children of all ages. This entertaining and educational
collection features two hundred stories by noted Spanish
children's author Pedro Pablo Sacristán. Translated into English
and produced with full music and sound effects, by Joe
Bevilacqua, and voiced by Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg.
Au d'oeuvres will be served and donated by Aroma Thyme Bistro and tickets for the show are available at the door.
Adults are $5 each, children 5 years and older are $3 and
younger than 5 years old are free.
Jaf Farkas as Tech Guy
Production credits: Lorie Kellogg: video editing graphics and voice acting Joe Bevilacqua: sound, sound effects, music and voice acting Kenny Savoy: voice acting Johann Kunz: special effects Jesika Farkas: set design and construction Jaf Farkas: head director Jonah Althouse: screenwriter and co-director Prashanti Massage: executive producer
Joe Bev in costume
for the film The Better Angles
(Showed at the
Woodstock Film Fest 2014)
Joe Bevilacqua (also known as Joe Bev) is a veteran
award-winning producer, director, writer and actor. Through his
Waterlogg Productions, Bevilacqua currently creates 15 different
radio shows, from home studio, nestled in the bucolic woods of
Napanoch, Ulster County, New York. Bevilacqua's work is heard on
stations around the world and podcast on demand, and has over
100 audio titles distributed by
Blackstone Audio, cartoons,
comedies, dramas, mysteries, science fiction, documentaries,
interviews and autobiographies and biographies, including many
in a radio theater style. He has acted on camera on television
on in film, included portraying General Montgomery in the
History Channel series The Wars and the head of NBC radio in
1931 for HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. “Joe Bev” is also is the
program director for BearManor Radio. He co-wrote Daws Butler,
Characters Actor with Ben Ohmart, co-wrote and edited Uncle
Dunkle and Donnie, Fractured Fables by Daws Butler, and edited
Scenes for Actors and Voices by Daws Butler, all books published
by BearManor Media.. More at http://www.waterlogg.com.
Lorie Kellogg is an actress, seen in such films as The Fly Room (2014) and Mr. Lamb (2014), a comedian, writer, and a video and graphic artist with degrees from The Kansas City Art Institute and CalArts. She is the co-founder of Waterlogg Productions and often works in tandem with her husband Joe Bevilacqua.
"He then dictated a whole script for a short film and recorded
it,"beams Jonah's mom , Natasha Althouse, owner of Prashanti Massage in Ellenville, New York. She continues, "He cast his
friends from the Ellenville Cooperative Nursery School and a
handful of film professionals donated their time and expertise
to help Jonah create Iron Man 6."
