Too Dead to Swing

[hildy89]

While at the library, I happen upon an interesting find in the audio-visual section with the radio programs. Too Dead to Swing is a audio play which focuses on a mystery set in an all-girl swing band in 1940. Cabaret singer Ann Hampton Calloway provides the singing for the group. Susan Egan plays the main character Katy Green, a struggling violinist & alto saxophonist. The composer and band director is played by Harry Groener who I remember fondly from his stint as the Mayor of Sunnydale on Buffy. And the band's new publicity representative is Simon Jones who my parents would know as Arthur Dent from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Small world. There are four cassette tapes in the program. Supposedly they intend to release other titles in the series.