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A note from the author: "Que Viva Porfirio. Ayyeee! This is a radio play or "voiceplay" in 12 brief episodes; alternative audio drama, in the modern mock-heroic style. It concerns the final moments of the legendary Dominican playboy/diplomat/sexgod Porfirio Rubirosa, a dream journey across America by a befuddled marine biologist named Woody, and the misadventures of a demented Byzantine underground. It's very funny, and surreal; the cast includes luminaries (artistas luminosos y esplendentes) of the American stage and screen Robert Stanton, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Christian Baskous, Omar Prince and Robin Poley.

This piece played on WOMR in fall of 2003 and since then on dozens of other community, freeform and college stations in the U.S. and Canada. It has been played or serialized as a weekly feature on WBAI, KPFA, WSUM and many other fine stations. The voiceplay runs 34 minutes, in 12 discrete scenes. It can be played in its entirety as a late-night feature presentation; the scenes also work well played individually as intriguing, offbeat filler. Thanks for your interest! And thanks for listening in."

CB

CREDITS:
CAST: (ARTISTAS LUMINOSOS Y ESPLENDENTES) Robert Stanton, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Chris Baskous, Omar Prince, Robin Poley.

Recorded in Fall of 2001 in NYC at Full House and Harvestworks. Engineered by David Lawson, Dave Weissman, Leslie Lavelanet. Payroll services by CTP. Special thanks to Jeff Block; Gretchen Heldring; AFTRA. Thanks also to Williamson Music; Vasrese Sarabande; Charles Howard; Rounder.

Written, produced, directed, edited and mixed by Christian Baskous.

Special thanks to Marcos Martinez, Claudia Arenas.

FREE SAMPLES - "(slurp) Mmmm... Not bad!"
Play a sample scene:

Scene Eight: Woody's Bus Ride

The Underground Epic Scene:

Scene Three:
The Sewers of Paris

This Voiceplay can be heard on the following fine radio stations/shows and webcasters:

Joe Blades Ashes, Paper and Beans poetry and writing show CHSR, community radio in Fredericton NB

WPPJ AM 670 Radio live stream via internet...

THE CHILL ROOM w/dj bennett Saturday nights midnight PST http://www.killradio.org.

WBAI 99.5 FM,NYC

Radio Free Exile,

KHEN FM Salida, Colorado Community Radio on their Tuesday 5pm Poetry and Stories.

Pitch a Fit with PVC, Mondays 11:59.999 pm to 2:00 am! KPFA Berzerkeley CA., 94.1 FM Free Speech Radio.

"THE LONELY&THE DAMNED", w/INGRID SHELTON. FM 90.1 KZFR CHICO, CA

CITR 101.9FM's "Sandbox Theatre" show. sandboxtheatre@hotmail.com.

"Loose Canons" on Vancouver Co-operative Radio, CFRO, 102.7FM

KSUN FM
WRGW
FRO (Free Radio Olympia)
CHSR 97.9
CHMR 93.5 FM, St. John's Newfoundland's Collective Voice show.
WFDU FM - log on to the stream at www.wfdu.fm
KZSU FM - read their review: News and Reviews page of the Rubiriosa Voiceplay Site.
WSYC88.7 FM College Radio For the Unafraid
THE LION 90.7
CIUT 89.5 FM Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Cap'n Dave - Great show, saturday funnies for grown-ups, listen nationally in Canada via channel 826 on Star Choice's National Satellite Network; audible on radios as far away as Buffalo NY, and online anyplace in USA at: www.ciut.fm
WUSM The University of Southern Mississippi,LISTEN LIVE.
Mr. Joe Poire of Provincetown, MA's WOMR 92.1 FM (good station - it also streams), hosts a show devoted entirely to new audio theatre.
KFJC 89.7 FM in Los Altos Ca
abfreeradio 1670AM of Allston, Massachusetts
WTUL 91.5FM New Orleans
KCSB FM
WLZY (Electric Ladyland!) Radio 91.5 FM
WTBU - listen live at wtburadio.org.
www.kuoi.org.
WRCT 88.3 FM (and streaming) from Carnegie Mellon University
KAOS Community Radio 89.3 Olympia Washington
WCLH 90.7 FM Wilkes-Barre/Scranton/Hazleton PA
Portland ME's WMPG
WTPS, Kettle-Moraine Community Radio, 99.7FM
"No Pigeonholes" on KKUP Cupertino, CA., 91.5FM. To quote underground radio historian Chuck Taggert: ".. the last of the old time Lorenzo Milam hippie radio stations."
WXDU, 88.7 Durham, NC
101.5 UMFM, Winnipeg's own Hit Free Radio
WMNF Tampa
Trent Radio, of Trent University in Peterborough, Ont. 250 watts @ 92.7Mhz, 95.3 cable in Peterborough and MP3 Stream via PIPCOM.
Radio Waterloo CKMS 100.3 FM, 95.5 on cable
WSUM - 91.7 FM University of Wisconsin-Madison serialized "Splendor and Death of Porfirio Rubirosa" in weekly episodes on the WSUM Radio Drama Hour.
Brooklyn's microradio station free103point9
MR. RANDOM, (aka Ken Fletcher) KWVA Eugene, OR. 88.1 FM
www.erika.net" freeform internet radio has added the Rubirosa Voiceplay to the playlist.

• Click on the link to READ DOUG SINGLETON'S INSIGHTFUL REVIEW OF THE RUBIROSA VOICEPLAY IN THE "THE BROOKLYN RAIL", available in many fine bookstores.
• "It's a radio drama about the "famous latin lover Porfiro Rubirosa" It's great!! It's a parallel story of the odyssey of Porfiro "Rubi" Rubirosa who flees a car accident into the sewers of Paris and the tale of Woody Mezmer, a lowly marine biologist in Massachusetts. It has lots of good sound effects and excellent dramatic voice work. And I mean excellent!! And it's funny! You could play a chunk of it (I would start with Tracks 1,5, 7, or 10 ) or you could play the whole thing -- now KFJC won't be the only ones around playing radio dramas anymore!" KZSU (Stanford University)'s Pat Blue Ribbon
• Terrific! Janet Coleman, WBAI FM, NY.

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