Thursday, March 7, 2013

Joe Bev Creates A Brand New Radio Play Every Week


Olive Pitts is confused in a taxi in India


New "Camp Waterlogg" radio play on Joe Bev's Comedy-O-Rama Hour, part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block, which includes The Jazz-O-Rama Hour & The Joe Bev Experience, starting 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT on cultradioagogo.com


Joseph Bevilacqua at the mic
Since he was twelve, Joe Bev has been creating original radio theater, first from his childhood bedroom in Iselin, New Jersey. 

Forty years later, Bev has defied fickle broadcasting trends and found a home for his audio theater on such radio stations as WBAI, WNYC, and networks such NPR and Sirius-XM, around the world via Internet radio, Audible, Amazon and Blackstone Audio.





For past 49 weeks, Bev has pulled out all the stops by writing, producing, directing, creating original sound effects, and voicing multiple characters in a weekly hour-long radio theater, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, which is part of The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block,starting 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT on http://www.cultradioagogo.com.


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This Saturday's radio play, "Camp Waterlogg-A-Go-Go! The Bollywood Wedding of Lefty & Olive," Sal Pilvers (Joe Bev) ruins the wedding of Sgt. Lefty (Joe Bev) and Olive Pitts (Lorie Kellogg) by holding an "Elderly Dance & Raffle" in the barn at the same time. 


Meanwhile, at the dance, Marcello (Jim Folly) and Luigi (Kenny Savoy) meet two women, both played by Stacy J. Negron-Sheckells, who joins the cast for the first time this week.

Olive meets a famous Indian magician Kutmar Kutmar (Joe Bev) who offers to give her a special honeymoon. 

Lefty and Olive are married by recently ordained Ranger Lorie (Lorie Kellogg) in the religion of "Dudeism" (a reference to the movie "The Big Lebowski"). As they kiss, they disappear in a puff of smoke, to the shock of best man Ellis the Boatkeeper, guests Adam Maxwell, Woody, Lil Andy (all Joe Bev); Elise, Like, and Mrs. Terwilliger (all Lorie Kellogg).
It was announce on February 27 that Blackstone Audio, Inc., has entered into partnership with Joe Bev's Waterlogg Productions to providing its award-winning audiobooks to a wider audience. 

It was announced on February 22 it was announced that Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) was chosen to be among those to receive a 2013 "Kean University Distinguished Alumni Award". 

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Bevilacqua has been producing radio in many genres most of his life. In 1980, at 19, Bevilacqua produced his first radio show, Liquid Comedy, for public radio station WRSU in New Brunswick, New Jersey and subsequently distributed internationally by the National Federation of Community Broadcaster (which became Pacifica Radio Archives). He co-hosted The Jazz Show with Garret Gega in the early 80s, a four hour a week mix classic jazz and comedy for WKNJ in Union, New Jersey. 

Bevilacqua also worked for WBGO, Jazz 88 in Newark, NJ and produced documentaries for WNYC New York Public Radio on jazz legends including Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Cab Calloway, and Lionel Hampton.
Lorie Kellogg & Joseph Bevilacqua

He is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, and in 2009, Bevilacqua did a commentary for Marketplace about his "green lifestyle". 

Lorie Kellogg is the co-producer. Kellogg started her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. There she studied painting, printmaking, photography, commercial design and video. She continued to Graduate School at the California Institute of the Arts where she received her MFA in Film/Video. Lorie is a graphic designer creating websites, logos, newsletters, newspaper & magazine layout, package design, ad design, and edits video & audio. 

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