Radio's most famous broadcast

On October 31, 2010, Capital Stage Broadway will present radio's single most famous broadcast.

The cast will tell the story, exactly as it was told by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on-air over 70 years ago.

The true power of live story-telling made itself known on Halloween Eve in 1938 when a story told over the radio terrified a nation.

Adapted for radio by Howard Koch and starring Orson Welles, War of the Worlds was presented as a Halloween thriller. But, for those who tuned in late, "normal" programming appeared to be interrupted with the startling news that there were "explosions occurring on Planet Mars."

Reports followed stating that a huge flaming object had fallen to earth on a farm near Grover's Mill, New Jersey.

More landings were soon reported and an anxious radio audience came to the frightening (incorrect) conclusion that Earth was the target of a full scale invasion by aliens!

Such is the power of Radio!

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