Many of you remember the good old days of radio. The days of radio theatre.
\nThose days return to WTRN tomorrow morning, when the Tiger and Bear Cubs of Pack 300 present the play Cactus Jack and his Wonder Horse, Wildcat.
\nThe group will perform its play tomorrow morning following the WTRN 10 a.m. news.
\nThe idea behind the program came when the Bear Cubs were doing their communications unit.
\nThe play stars Ryan Isenberg as the announcer. Jarrad Fuoss plays Cactus Jack. Marcus Wagner plays the Stranger and Tyler Ray is Little Nell.
\nThe Cub Scouts were joined by 14-year-old Philip Kreckel as they made the journey.
\n\u201cWe were working on the communications block for their requirements for their badges,\u201d said Kreckel. \u201cIt took us about 15 to 20 minutes to get prepared for the program and it was a fun time for the kids.\u201d
\n\u201cPhilip is a Boy Scout, but is assigned to the cub scouts den,\u201d said Peter Kreckel, one of the area Boy Scout leaders. \u201cHe goes to every meeting and he helps out with different skits and things. We did a couple different skits during the Blue and Gold banquet earlier this year. The kids enjoy doing these things. They like working with the older kids and usually have a lot of fun doing it.\u201d
\nWTRN owner Cary Simpson enjoyed working on the project with the kids.
\n\u201cIt was just great because the kids get into it right away,\u201d said Simpson. \u201cKids at that age have wonderful imaginations. They right away caught on to what they were siupposed to do. The kids who were going to do the sound effects went into a corner and practiced their sound effects, the kids who were going to sing went to practice and the kids who had the speaking parts went into their group. Then they all came into the studio and put the whole thing together.\u201d
\nSimpson donates his station for many community projects. This one was no different.
\n\u201cI think the adult leaders got into it completely,\u201d said Simpson. \u201cThey were just as excited and they got a great big kick out of the kids. They tied it in with their communications block. After they recorded the program, they held a study session about communications here in the studio. They mentioned the newspaper, smoke signals, the internet and many ways to communicate. The kids thought these things up. They are so smart at that age and have the imagination that people who are older just don\u2019t use anymore.\u201d
\nRadio once had the slogan \u201cTheatre of the mind.\u201d
\nIt returns to WTRN tomorrow morning at 10:15 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many of you remember the good old days of radio. The days of radio theatre. Those days return to WTRN tomorrow morning, when the Tiger and Bear Cubs of Pack 300 present the play Cactus Jack and his Wonder Horse, Wildcat. The group will perform its play tomorrow morning following the WTRN 10 a.m. news. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}