Apr 12, 2020
ROMANTIC WWII AUDIO DRAMA / HISTORICAL RADIO PLAY SERIES SET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, CHINA AND JAPAN.
Season Two of the Podcast
After a desperate flight to freedom from the Japanese Mandates in Red House Rising Season One, Season Two begins as World War II explodes in the Pacific. Jo joins forces with Alice and Mike and the Flying Tigers in Rangoon, where the Tigers face overwhelming odds defending China, and its most important supply route, the Burma Road, from the Japanese Air Force. Meanwhile, Prince “Nik” Nikura and his ward, Taka Kawashima, are in Honolulu, on their way back from Washington DC and a failed diplomatic peace mission.
Red House Rising was Produced, Written, Directed, and Edited by Chris Côté and Dayle Kerry.
Original Music and Sound Design by Jack Côté.
Starring Dayle Kerry, Raechel Wong, Roy Vongtama, Chris Côté, Chelsea Kurtz, Fin Kim, Andy Goldberg, Tiffany Hubbard, Melinda Chilton, Rio Shigeta, Diana Miho, Priscilla Bawicia, Josh McClenney, Maria Spassoff, Feodor Chin, Dawn Joyal, Smitha Chandrabose, Arnold Chun, Julia Cho, Mark Schubb, Scott Sandler, Tatum Bronte, Tom Sheeter, William Woff, Kareem Ferguson, Helaine Lembeck, Don McClennan, Desi Powell, Matylda Kerry and Melia Languein.
Narration by Robin Abcarian.
Production Coordinator, Matylda Kerry.
Aviation Consultant, George Cote.
Radio consultant, Ben Nock, of the Military Wireless Museum.
And a very special thank you to Jennie Webb, Co-Founder of the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative, Steven Kalb, Robin Abcarian, Raechel Wong, Roy Vongtama, Rio Shigeta, Peter Gardiner, Matthew Dunn, the entire amazing Red House Rising cast, and the many talented sound effects contributors at freesound.org.
Palolo was written by Charles E. King and performed by Ray Kinney and His Musical Ambassadors.
Sweet Leilani was written by Harry Owens and performed by Dick McIntire and his Harmony Hawaiians.
Pagan Love Song was written by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed and performed by Felix Mendelssohn and the Hawaiian Serenaders
Hula Blues was written by Johnny Noble and Sonny Cunha and performed by the Tau Moe Trio
Blue Hawaii was written by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger and sung by Melinda Chilton.
Little Grass Shack was written by Tommy Harrison, Bill Cogswell, and Johnny Noble and performed by Felix Mendelssohn and the Hawaiian Serenaders