Finishing off the 7th season of Midnight Radio is the Pittsburgh-flavored holiday tale, Yinz’r Scrooged.
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“Midnight Radio does mimic the format of a 1940s radio show, where script-holding actors perform live while simultaneously generating sound effects and delivering jokey commercials. Dixon and Turich’s adaptation promises parody and comedy without minimizing Dickens’ concerns about poverty, class and the public’s indifference to the misery around”
“This Midnight Radio adaptation by Tami Dixon, staged by Bricolage and directed by Sam Turich, purports to be a parody, but actually it’s pretty close to the real thing, albeit Pittsburgh-ized with local names, places, accents and jokes. Strip away those comic elaborations and you have a condensed but otherwise true-to-the-heart conversion story of the unhappy old miser, trapped in his self-defeating greed, along with a forceful version of Dickens’ denunciation of the ravages of the industrial revolution”