Oct 20, 2009

Archived: Jack Kerouac Audio Play on Alternative Radio News Feature

Jack’s Last Call: Say Goodbye to Kerouac – is airing during KVSC’s Alternative Radio news feature on Sunday, Oct. 25 from noon – 1 p.m. Broadway star Len Cariou plays a feature role and the audio play is directed and produced by award winning audio dramatist Sue Zizza.

The audio play was created in conjunction with the celebrations around the 50th anniversary of the publishing of Jack Kerouac’s "On The Road" and was adapted from an earlier stage production, Kerouac’s Last Call.

Based on more than 12 years of research about Kerouac’s Queens and Long Island lives, Jack’s Last Call opens in 1964, at the moment when his life was moving toward its end and he prepares to leave his Northport home to live in Florida with his mother. Blending both the facts of that last night from the tape recordings made by a friend of Kerouac’s with other occurrences throughout Kerouac’s life, listeners meet the shy, sensitive, complicated Kerouac who fled his own fame in 1957 after "On The Road" was published. As always, you can listen to this program on KVSC 88.1FM on your iPhone or Blackberry, or you can listen online.

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