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== Music ==
== Music ==
{{My First Homage (Gavin Bryars)}}
{{My First Homage (Gavin Bryars)}} [Intro] <!--radio segment includes "Killing Me Softly With His Song" - Anne Murray | "I Can't Stop Loving You" - Ray Charles -->
 
== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Tom Strother."


== Miscellanea ==
== Miscellanea ==

Revision as of 06:45, 31 March 2021

No Show[1]
Series
Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
1986
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Serious Monologue, 60 mins / 87 mins / 120 mins
Preceded by: A Landing Strip In The Jungle
Followed by: Let Me Not Dream

I have an announcement to make this evening. There is no show.

No Show is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1986.

Synopsis

  • Joe announces that there is no show, and spends the program explaining why against soft piano music.
  • Discussing the inter-connectedness of all things and the indomitable desire to live with a producer.
  • Joe sweeps a tuner across commercial radio stations, suggests his audience listen to something else
  • A woman invites herself to Joe's apartment, talks forever about nothing, and harasses his cat. Sharing a frozen dinner with an elderly cat.
  • Joe calls a telephone counseling line from the studio.
  • A dinner party in Joe's honor, feeling a fraud, discussing the meaning of quality of life. Dinner parties as an Olympic sport.
  • The lawsuit against a film company for plagiarism.
  • Joe's friend talks about problems with his mother.
  • Joe's cat goes into a seizure.
  • Living in a noisy neighborhood. Waking up to a film crew outside.
  • Joe picks up a girlfriend at the airport.

Music

Additional credits

The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Tom Strother."

Miscellanea

  • Although broadcast frequently in a 60-minute edit, there are 90-minute and 120-minute versions.
  • Joe's most truly autobiographical show. 100% true, *probably*. He talks about his daily life and frustrations, and the cumulative interruptions which have caused him to be unprepared to write a show.
  • Joe's most "improvised" monologue. You hear him tell unprepared stories about his life, his narrative is less polished, more hesitant, sounds like his "true speaking voice".
  • Includes material about his lawsuit against the screenwriter from the Scorcese film "After Hours", which is not included in the 60-minute version.