Surflight Theatre will be presenting “War of the Worlds – The Panic Broadcast,” a live onstage radio play, at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 23, 29 and 30 and at 2 p.m. on Oct. 24 and 31.
Now, there’s fake news and then there’s fake news!
At 8 p.m. on Oct. 30, 1938 a 23-year-old Orson Welles and his “Mercury Theatre on the Air” troupe began its CBS broadcast of its radio drama “The War of the Worlds” with the Sunday evening program’s regular theme music. Then an announcement was made that the night’s show was an adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel of the same name.
It was an innocent beginning to what turned into one of the most memorable radio broadcasts in history.
The show was soon “interrupted” by fake breaking news bulletins.
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