SRO POETRY*PROSE PLAYERS PRODUCTIONS


Many of SRO’s members participate in the SRO Poetry*Prose Program coordinated by Dick Luckay and marketed by Charles Wenar.   The SRO Poetry*Prose performers reach out to under-served audiences in senior centers and retirement homes offering people an opportunity to sing, laugh and reminisce. If you’re interested in reading poetry and prose to congenial colleagues, seniors and school children or on the radio, contact Dick Luckay at (614) 868-1321. Special seasonal and holiday programs are available plus the following favorites.

Remembering the 1940's This was the decade of swing, the Andrew Sisters, rationing, Roosevelt's radio talks, the zoot suit, the first TV sets and much, much more. Come and share your memories as the decade passes in review.

Chasin' the Blues Away  No need to feel down when this show's in town! It's got it all - songs, jokes, skits, poems - and all for fun. Come and have a laugh on us.

Yippie-I-O, The Western Show -- It’s like sitting around the campfire singing, “Home on the Range” and other western songs and listening to humorous poems about the life of cowboys, their wives and their sweethearts.

Love Those Animals! -- Come hear poems about animals from fleas to elephants and all creatures in between, including cats, dogs, tigers, lambs and even a purple cow. There are also some fables by Aesop and a fairy tale about an enchanted nightingale.

That's What I Like About the South -- Come hear those good ole' Southern songs like "Swanee River" and "Dixie." Listen to humorous stories from Appalachia, a scary Cajun tale and a story about the mischievous Bra'er Rabbit AND learn how to talk Southern!

Food, Glorious Food! -- A program for all food lovers! There will be a quiz about food in nursery rhymes and popular songs along with fables and fairy tales about food. There will also be descriptions of lavish feasts from Roman times to the present and even a recipe for how to cook a cricket!

Buckeye Bash -- People and events that made our state famous are featured in poetry and prose.

How Sweet It Was-- A nostalgic trip down memory lane using the poems you know and perhaps had to memorize as a child:  “Trees,” “The Village Blacksmith,” “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” “ In School Days,” “The Psalm of Life” and many others.  The program creates that special glow that only happy childhood memories can bring.

The Nostalgia Quiz Show -- DO YOU REMEMBER: What Popeye ate to make him strong?  The tune to, “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree?”  What Roosevelt’s “Day that will live in infamy” was?  Then come to the quiz show.  There will be questions about movies, songs, radio programs, sports and current events that were popular when you were growing up.  You’ll have a good time and win a prize or two!

Let’s Get Away From It All -- Feeling low? Got the blahs? Tired of the same old routine? Or do you just like to travel?  Then this is the program for you.  We’ll take you ‘round the world with poetry and prose readings.  Climb aboard.  We’ll start in New York, head east and circle the globe ending up in Alaska.  A few of the stops include England, France, Turkey, Mandalay and China.  Readings are selected to make your trip enjoyable.

Saluting Diversity -- Programs saluting the rich heritage of African-American, Latino, Native American and Jewish poetry and prose.

Special Holiday & Seasonal Programs

Let Me Count the Ways – a celebration of different kinds of love – romantic, maternal, unrequited or lost.  Good for Valentine’s Day or June weddings.

 God Bless America – patriotic prose and poetry, including words from familiar songs such as “America the Beautiful,” “Columbia the Gem of the Ocean” and excerpts from the Declaration of Independence. You’ll hear a moving rendition of “The Gettysburg Address” accompanied by the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” recorded by the Morman Tabernacle Choir. A great program for Independence, Memorial or Labor Day holidays.

 Halloween Hoopla – a fun program of humorous and scary literature complete with cast in costumes.

Black History – poetry by a variety of African-American authors, including Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks and Paul Lawrence Dunbar.

Jewish Vision—Poetry Through the Ages – poetry from the Bible, Middle Ages, Holocaust, Modern and Contemporary times.

Sugar and Spice – a potpourri of poetry and prose – some familiar, some new.  Good any time of year.

Winter Wonderland – snow poetry by Robert Frost, Elinor Wylie and others plus the humor of Erma Bombeck  

Spring Fling –

Summertime -