1/18: The Zygons Are Due in Red Bank

January 18, 2012 — 1 Comment

Live actors, musicians and sound effect artists perform beneath the projected art of Tim Doyle, as the 21st century retro radio play THE INTERGALACTIC NEMESIS makes its maiden voyage to Red Bank.

It was almost 75 years ago that a young guy named Orson Welles drove thousands of New Jerseyans into Martian-fueled panic, courtesy of a little radio play called War of the Worlds — using little more than a handful of actors, a live microphone and a busy-box of sound effects.

Here in the jet-pack and moving-sidewalk world of 2012, we like to think we’re a little more sophisticated than that — but when the phenomenon known as The Intergalactic Nemesis touches down in New Jersey (at Red Bank’s own Count Basie Theatre) for the first time on January 28, it will represent the leading edge of what may prove to be an ongoing invasion.

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