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A Joe Bev Audio Theater Sampler, Vol. 3 - Abridged by Joe Bevilacqua, William Melillo, Bill Marx & J. C. De La Torre
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A Joe Bev Audio Theater Sampler, Vol. 3 - Abridged

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Length 6 hours 29 minutes
Language English
Narrators Joe Bevilacqua, Bill Marx, Robert L. Mills, Lorie Kellogg, Kenny Savoy, Orson Welles, Jim Folly, Roger Hendricks Simon, John Houseman, Alison Nead, Cathi Tully, Rick Ramos & James Patrick Cronin

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This collection offers more audio drama, comedy, biography, and documentary from veteran award-winning radio dramatist Joe Bevilacqua (a.k.a. Joe Bev). Together with his wife, Lorie Kellogg, Bevilacqua has amassed thousands of hours of audio entertainment through his Waterlogg Productions and Blackstone Audio.

Each half hour is beautifully produced with an original cast of professional actors, sound effects, and music.

Volume three includes

"We Take You Now to Grover's Mill" by Joe Bevilacqua"War of the Welles" by William Melillo"Son of Harpo Speaks, Part 1" by Bill Marx"Homeland Security Comes to Camp Waterlogg" by Joe Bevilacqua"Akrotiri" by J. C. De La Torre"My Dinner at Baker Street" by Joe Bevilacqua"A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part One"If We All Talked like Allen Jenkins" by Joe Bevilacqua"The Village Life" by Alan Reed"Stench of the City" conclusion by Victor Gates"The Japanese Sandman" by Jack French"Huckleberry Hound Goes to the Moon" by Carl Memling"The Laugh Makers" by Bob Mills

Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev, is a public radio producer and radio theater dramatist. However, his career has taken him into every aspect of show business, including stage, film, and television as a producer, director, writer, author, actor, journalist, documentarian, and even cartoonist. He is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City.

Bill Marx, adopted son of Harpo Marx and Susan Fleming, studied composition at Juilliard. He has composed concerti for numerous instruments and performed across the country as a jazz pianist.

JC De La Torre, a speculative-fiction author, was born in Tampa, Florida. Author of the critically acclaimed underground success Ancient Rising, he has experienced the highs and lows of the publishing business. From the thrill of great reviews for his initial foray into the world of science fiction and fantasy to the failure and eventual closing of his publisher, Luna Brillante Publishing, De La Torre continues to press on to provide his fans the best in speculative fiction.

Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev, is a public radio producer and radio theater dramatist. However, his career has taken him into every aspect of show business, including stage, film, and television as a producer, director, writer, author, actor, journalist, documentarian, and even cartoonist. He is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City.

Bill Marx, adopted son of Harpo Marx and Susan Fleming, studied composition at Juilliard. He has composed concerti for numerous instruments and performed across the country as a jazz pianist.

Bob Mills, Comedy Writer & Author
A native of San Francisco, Bob Mills served in the Navy after high school, graduating from San Francisco State University in 1962 and the University of California Hastings Law in 1965.  He practiced in Palo Alto, CA for ten years before moving to Hollywood to write for television.
He worked on the "Dinah Shore Show" and the "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts" before joining Bob Hope as a staff writer  in 1977. He traveled the world with Hope for the next seventeen years.
From 1992 to 1996, he co-wrote a daily topical humor column for the Los Angeles Times called  Laugh Lines.
In 1999, he became an enrichment lecturer for Crystal Cruises and for the next five years sailed aboard the Crystal Symphony and Harmony, as well as the Diamond, Pacific and Island Princesses and the Celebrity Mercury performing shows based on his experiences with Hope.  He is currently booking cruise lectures.
In 2009, his book "The Laugh Makers: A Behind-the-Scenes Tribute to Bob Hope’s Incredible Gag Writers" was published by Bear Manor Media and was named one of Leonard Maltin’s Top 20 Year-End Picks.  Available on Amazon.com.  
An unabridged audio version read by the author is available on Audible.com. 
In 1973, he married his wife, Shelley, with whom he lives in Studio City, California.

Lorie Kellogg is a busy graphic and voice-over artist as well as a skilled improv comedian. She studied painting, printmaking, and video and film at the Kansas City Art Institute and the California Institute of the Arts.

Orson Welles (1915–1985) was an iconic Academy Award–winning director, writer, actor, and producer for film, stage, radio, and television. He won the 1941 Academy Award for best original screenplay for Citizen Kane and in 1970 received the Academy Honorary Award. Known for his baritone voice, he was well regarded as a radio and film actor, a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor, and an accomplished magician. He first gained notoriety for his October 30, 1938, radio broadcast of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. Winner of multiple awards, he is now widely acknowledged as one of the most important dramatic artists of the twentieth century. In 2002, two British Film Institute polls of directors and critics voted Orson Welles the greatest film director of all time.

Roger Hendricks Simon is the founder of Simon Studio, a radio, theater, and television production company. He has performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Living Theatre, the Open Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, and numerous others around the globe. He lives and works in New York City.

James Patrick Cronin began his audiobook career at twelve years of age opposite Christopher Lloyd in the book-on-tape of The Pagemaster. A classically trained stage actor with an MFA from the University of Louisville and a degree in philosophy, James has spent his years since college performing as an actor and a comedian on stages all over the world. He has performed everything from the classics to original material in Ireland, Scotland, Serbia, and Israel, as well as throughout the US. He has recorded over 100 audiobooks across an extensive range of genres.

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“If there was an award for best husband and wife narrating team, I think the clear winners would be Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg. Come to think of it, why isn’t there an award for best husband and wife narrating team? Somebody needs to look into that. Anyway, individually, Joe and Lorie are both extremely talented voice artists. They can both do lots of entertaining voices, not just characterizations but whole personalities, and they both have a fine flair for drama, satire, and comedy. Put them together and, well, need I say more? If you haven’t heard these two at work, you’re missing out on something special.”

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