A rooster crows, a chicken clucks, a duck quacks, a crowd gathers. Not sounds one normally expects to hear on the radio. But when the creator of that radio show is Joe Bev, anything is possible!
Bevilacqua's latest one-hour radio play is also his 58th new "Camp Waterlogg" installment in just over a year. The break neck pace at which Bev is currently working is the product of what he calls "stepping on a lightning bolt and taking a ride. I feel as if I've advanced light-years in just one."
In two week's The Comedy-O-Rama Hour will celebrate its 60th new show on Cult Radio A-Go-Go! in nearly as many weeks. "It took me four years to do 60 hours of radio theater for Sirius-XM," admits Bev.
On this Saturday's hour of audio madness, which mixes real life and fiction, Bevilacqua takes listeners to a Colombian restaurant in Elizabeth, NJ and The Draft Horse Show in Accord, NY--writing, producing, directing and voicing most of the hour's characters himself.
Bev plays Sgt. Lefty, Ellis da Boatkeeper, Lil Andy, Sal Pilvers, Ranger Joe, and other characters, including two new arrivals to "Camp Waterlogg": Cary Gooper and Gary Cant, homages to Gary Cooper and Cary Grant.
Bev's wife and co-creator Lorie Kellogg voices Olive, Elise, Mrs. Terwilliger, Lkie, Baby of the Woods, Ranger Lorie, and others. Kenny Savoy is heard as Stinky Peter and Luigi, and Jim Folly is Marcello.
Also featured on the hour will be the 6th installment of the first new "Lum and Abner" comedy since 1954, written and performed by Donnie Pitchford, who also draws the "Lum and Abner" comic strip appearing at http://firstarkansasnews.net in a "Sunday strip" format with a new installment each Sunday.
The Comedy-O-Rama Hour is just one of four weekly hours produced, directed, written and voiced by Joe Bevilacqua, who is the recipient of the 2013 Kean University Distinguished Alumni Award.
The May 11th Joe Bev 3-Hour Block includes:
Comedy-O-Rama #58: "Sun, Rain & The Draft Horse Show"
Jazz-O-Rama #41: "Battle of the Drums 1: Papa Jo Jones vs. Philly Joe Jones"
Joe Bev Experience #37: "The Cartoon Carnival Mother's Day Special"
Joe Bevilacqua began his career at Kean University, where he acted in many stage productions and created a weekly radio theater hour for WKNJ. Since graduating, Bevilacqua has created hundreds of hours of audio content for National Public Radio, WNYC-New York Public Radio, WBGO-Jazz88, KUT-Austin, TX, WBAI-Pacifica, Hawaii Public Radio, and other radio stations, as well as The Public Radio Exchange, Radio Spirits, Bear Manor Media, Audible, and Blackstone Audio--producing, directing, writing, acting and hosting a wide varieties of genres including drama, comedy, music, interview, biography, autobiography and documentary programs and specials.
Bevilacqua has acted in a number of feature films and TV shows. He can be seen as the first lawyer Abraham Lincoln met as a child in the soon to be released theatrical motion picture The Green Blade Rises directed by A.J. Edwards, and as an IRS Agent on the Lion TV series Deadly Devotions, soon to air on Investigation Discovery Channel.
He also has performed in many stage productions, including Black Comedy for The Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville, NY, The Case of the Murdering Microphone, which he also wrote and directed for 90 Miles Off Broadway, in New Paltz, NY, and "Vaudeville in the Catskills" at Bethel Woods and other venues for the Sullivan Count Dramatic Workshop. He has also performed at the Improv, Caroline’s on Broadway, Catch a Rising Star, the Comic Strip, opened for Uncle Floyd, worked with Al Franken, Shelley Berman, Lewis Black and Rick Overton. Joe has also MC’d shows featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Mahr and Gilbert Gottfried. He is currently touring as Bud Abbott with Bob Greenberg as Lou Costello in "A Tribute to Bud & Lou".
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.
An announcement about Jazz-O-Rama #41: "Battle of the Drums 1: Papa Jo Jones vs. Philly Joe Jones"
VIDEO of Joe Bev & Co. performing at the Lynn Winik Tribute:
http://youtu.be/zCWO4y5fLuY
