Random Thursdays Radio Theatre...Our Story
The Idea
Randomness can be either comforting or disconcerting, depending on your perspective.
But randomness is the theme of the podcast....random moments from undistinguished days in the lives of ordinary people...days that you don't think twice about, days you might forget even happened. They certainly won't impact the history of human civilization, but these moments mean something to us. And that's our focus...to celebrate, contemplate and lament the random moments of every day life. How did this all come about?
Two years ago, Peter Carrozzo was going about his day thinking to himself, dejectedly, that he had written a bunch of plays and most of them were sitting in a filing cabinet doing nothing. Although several of his one act plays had been staged there were so many other orphan one acts living alone in anonymity . So Peter called his friend Dany Stravino...actually he sent him a test message because really no one calls anyone anymore...and told him about these plays and Dany said "hey we know a lot of people from many different theaters, so let's get a bunch of our favorite actors together and start reading them." And on another random day Peter ran into his old friend Emilia Horn who he met when she played Ursula in Bye Bye Birdie many many years ago and he was stage manager and he said, "hey we are reading a bunch of plays together and I don't know...do you want to join us?" And she said "absolutely!" And then Emilia asked "when do you meet?" And Peter said "we usually meet on Thursdays." And she said "that's perfect for me!" So a bunch of actors who all knew each other from the world of community theater, started meeting on Thursdays and reading Peter's plays together with no clue why and no real schedule...they just met on random Thursdays and then they all said collectively "Hey! That is a great name for this theater!" And they became the Random Thursdays.
After about a year of that, Peter wrote an episode of a podcast called Artificial Ignorance and met Liz Regan who was the sound designer who made amazing things happen with a microphone and some other cool stuff that Peter did not understand. So then Dany, Emilia and Peter said collectively "Hey! Let's make a podcast out of these plays!" Dany and Emilia started directing them and adding more and more of some of our favorite actors to form a company...the Random Thursday Players. Peter said "I have the perfect person to record this" and he emailed Liz and said "hey do you want to record and mix and do whatever you do to plays to make them a podcast?" Liz Regan said "I can record them!" But how do you create a podcast about a bunch of random stories....and then they all said collectively..."wait! random stories performed on random Thursdays!? That will be our theme!!" And we were all set to record our first episode in person together....on March 23, 2020. And then quarantine hit....
Theater in Quarantine
Come back on a future random Thursday to read the rest of our story...
