A Waterlogg Double Feature: The Joe Bev Valentine Treat & The Comedy-O-Rama Hour Valentine Special: Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg

Summary

A Waterlogg Double Feature from husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg

The Joe Bev Valentine Treat

This is a charming hour of stories (real and fictional) about love, hosted by veteran public radio producer Joe Bevilacqua. The hour includes “Who’s Afraid of a Virginian’s Wrath?,” a parody of the Edward Albee play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as played by George and Martha Washington; “A Valentine from Graham Nash’s Mac”: On February 12, 1996, an email from rock artist Graham Nash’s Macintosh laptop triggered a series of bizarre coincidences, which led to the meeting of Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg; “Ode to a Transfer Station,” or “Love Poem for the Dump”; “A Mathematical Valentine,” in which Joe Bevilacqua tracks down his former mathematics professor, Ron Reummler, to hear how math can explain lost love; “The Love of Lee the Horselogger,” in which Joe Bevilacqua meets a man who set out in a covered wagon in 2006 to find his childhood sweetheart and fell in love with America instead; “Marian the Librarian Finds Love at the Bookmobile,” the true story of love, in Marian’s own words; and “Valentine Vignette,” a sketch by Daws Butler.

The Comedy-O-Rama Valentine Special: Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg

This comic one-hour radio play is written by Joe Bevilacqua and performed by real-life husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg, plus Cousin Kenny Savoy, Jim Folly, Tom Giannazzo, and Reagan Bonjorno Leonard. It was recorded in the woods of Napanoch, New York, and at Carolyn’s on Broadway in New York City.