Radio Players Draw Laughs

The Atlanta Union Radio Players’ 12th Annual Lend Me an Ear: Laughs by the Dozens was a huge success. This past October, we raised $5,222 for the Atlanta Community Food Bank, which gave the group over $45,000 in buying power just in time for the holidays. We broke our old record by more than $1,500. Comedy sells! Our 45 performers and excellent crew provided some top-grade guffaws for our packed house of 200-plus at the New American Shakespeare Tavern. It was a great tribute to the comedy geniuses of radio: Burns and Allen, Abbott and Costello, Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Mae West and Minnie Pearl, among many others. Next year will be our lucky 13th anniversary, so look for radio tales that deal in intrigue, treasure, superstition and, of course, the “theater of imagination!”

The entire cast of Lend Me an Ear. Photos by Caran Wilbanks.

The cast of The Fred Allen Show with special guest "Jack Benny."