
The 1940's Radio Hour
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Walton Jones’s 'The 1940's Radio Hour' arrived at the St. James Theatre in 1979, running for an accomplished 139 performances and capturing a major Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor. Conceived as a highly stylized, retro coming-of-age holiday musical pastiche, the narrative unfolds entirely in real-time over a single sweltering evening inside a smoke-filled radio broadcast studio on December 21, 1942, tracking an eccentric, tight-knit company of variety performers who struggle against personal heartbreaks, missing sound effects, and wartime anxieties to execute a live holiday broadcast. Directed by Jones himself, it featured an elite ensemble cast.

