F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: Recent Episodes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Columbus Civic Theater has created a radio play podcast series based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Six parts in total, the series represents the entire novel, abridged. After the pandemic closed its theater, the Columbus Civic Theater has been working in other mediums. After 11 years and 94 productions, the non-profit is searching for a new home and a capital fundraiser has been set up. Visit us at: https://columbuscivic.org/
The Spirit of the Future shows Scrooge the things that are about to happen. He shows him his death and what people really think of him.
As Scrooge travels with the ghost of Christmas Present, he visits the house of Bob Cratchit, his honorable employee, where he observes Tiny Tim and learns the fate that awaits the child due to his illness. He also visits his beautiful, gentle niece Adeline and her family.
Scrooge comes face to face with a supernatural visitor: the Ghost of Christmas Past. They tour the town where Scrooge grew up, the school of which he has such sad memories. The realizes the affection his sister Seraphine had for him and remembers the lost love of Lucia.
Scrooge does not like Christmas time. He criticizes generous people whom he describes as hypocritical. The soul of Marley, his best friend, who died seven years ago, appears. Marley warns him that the spirits of Christmas will visit him.
A Christmas Carol (1843) is the novel written by Charles Dickens that tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a man with a difficult character who only thinks of accumulating wealth, regardless of the circumstances and needs of those around him.
The final episode of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby finds the gang in a dire situation, as a tragic accident sets off a series of events extinguishing Gatsby's dream.
Tom finds out about Gatsby and Daisy, and George suspects Mrytle has a lover. How does the gang end up at the Plaza on the hottest day of the year? Serendipity? Compromise? Fate? Find out.
Nick and Jordan discover the real motive of Jay Gatsby. But for a moment the two are reunited.
Part one of the Columbus Civic Theater's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is the first in a series of four, all published in the first half of 2022. For more information, including cast bios, notes, and ways you can help the non-profit theater find a new home, go to www.columbuscivic.org.
The Columbus Civic Theater has created a radio play based on its stage adaption of Charles Dickens’ popular novella, A Christmas Carol. Due to the pandemic, the Civic’s annual production could not be presented this year. Defying fate, Carol’s director, Kerry Shanklin, has adapted the work into a radio play, which will be available for download on December 1st from this website, and other sites. The recording, which has been funded by the Civic’s donors and the Greater Columbus Arts Council, is free to all.
With a firm foundation in the original work, published in 1862, the radio play uses favorite performers from previous productions, sound effects, and carols. Narrated by Harold Yarborough (Hoke, Driving Miss Daisy) and featuring Tracy Tupman (Macduff, Macbeth) as Ebenezer Scrooge, the cast includes Abby Dorn, Vicky Welsh Bragg, Britt Kline, Scott Douglas Wilson, Max Muir, Sam Bermudez, Todd Taylor, Frannie Mamlin, and Macao Bermudez as Tiny Tim.
In June of this year, the Columbus Civic Theater was forced to close its theater located in Clintonville. After 11 years and 94 productions, the non-profit is searching for a new home and a capital fundraiser has been set up. Visit https://columbuscivic.org for more info, cast bios, and ways to donate.