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TOP SECRET: MAJIC: An Original Radio Drama by Playwright Marty Martin

Top Secret Majic, Hour Number One: Jerry first visits with Marty Martin, the author of the radio drama, front row center and then the performance begins. In this first hour we hear about the exact time it happened and reports of a UFO Crash. Sheep Rancher Mack Brazel comes into town the next day to tell the Sheriff about the UFO debris found on the Foster ranch where he worked as the foreman. Brazel is quickly taken to the Roswell Army Air Base for a personal meeting with Col. Blanchard, the commanding officer and Major Jesse Marcel, the unit's intelligence officer. Marcel goes out to the ranch the next morning and is astounded at what he sees. Quickly it is apparent the Army knows more than they have been admitting as another saucer is recovered almost intact, about 60 miles from the ranch. President Truman and US Navy Secretary James Forrestal, a friend of Truman, are quickly brought into the action along with commander of the 8th Army Air Force, General Ramey who proceeds to start the cover up.
MP3 Running time: 57 minutes, 37 seconds
Windows Media Version Part 1  - Windows Media Version Part 2

Top Secret Majic, Hour Two -
The Cover Up Begins- President Harry Truman devises a plan to create an above top secret panel to control the information about UFOs. Mac Brazel is sticking with his story of the UFO crash despite harsh treatment and even death threats from the military.
The heat is turned up on Mac Brazel with a personal visit from the new Joint Chief of Staff and meeting at the White House with President Truman shows how Majic-12 was formed. Glenn Dennis loses his fiancee as she is shipped out after seeing the bodies, she was a nurse who helped with the autopsy of the ET bodies.
James Forrestal who was promoted to Secretary of Defense begins to show emotional signs of a break down or was he just showing signs that he might tell the truth about the UFO encounters?
Selling Out. Forrestal couldn't do it and either jumped or was pushed to his death at Bethesda Naval Hospital, EBE 1 was saved from the crash and soon was able to offer the deal and members of MJ 12 jumped at it, technology for experimentation on humans and Mac Brazel finally recants in return for his own deal, a house, some property and a new pickup. The sell-out was made, the deal accepted and it's still in effect, six-plus decades later.
MP3 Running time: 1 hour, 32 minutes, 39 seconds
Windows Media Version Pt1 - Windows Media Version Pt2 - Windows Media Version Pt3
A group of Roswell Citizens got together and presented a radio play in front of a sold-out audience at the Pearson Auditorium, Sunday afternoon, July 5, 2009. We took the original dialog from that performance and have added sound effects, original music and other elements to make this presentation not only like a radio drama from 1947 but added present day technology to make it a stereo version that will create vividly in the listener's mind the events and character who were involved in the Roswell UFO Crash and how it was covered up.  The Roswell Actors did not try to imitate or recreate the voice of the characters, Rancher Mack Brazel, Col. Joe Blanchard, Commander, 509th Bomb Group, Roswell Army Air Field and many others involved from President Harry Truman on down to the top Generals in the Pentagon. 

Playwright Marty Martin was fairly close to the real facts and took some theatrical license with locations of characters and recreated conversations that were probably very close to the real thing. Marty Talks to Jerry about the play-

This radio drama featuring residents of Roswell, many of the cast, had family who lived the story when it happened, when Roswell was really a small spot in the New Mexico desert that not many people were even aware existed unless you were involved in secret World War II operations, as this was the base that housed the unit that dropped the A Bombs on Japan to end the war. 
Directed by Carol Dishman.
 
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AWARD WINNING PLAYWRIGHT BRINGS UFO PLAY, “TOP SECRET: MAJIC” TO LINE UP OF UFO FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES

Roswell Community Little Theater to Host Two Radio Play Performances on July 5th at NMMI’s Pearson Auditorium During the 2009 Amazing UFO Festival

  For Immediate Release. June 11, 2009

(ROSWELL, N.M.) – Organizers for the 2009 Amazing Roswell UFO Festival are proud to announce the addition of a major new American play to the already exciting line-up of activities.   Two showings of the world premier of the staged reading of TOP SECRET: MAJIC, written by Marty Martin and casted and directed by Carol Dishmand with the Roswell Community Little Theatre, will be performed at the NMMI Pearson Auditorium on Sunday, July 5th at 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

This riveting two-act play is staged during the summer of 1947 and is set in Roswell and Washington, D.C. The characters it brings to life include local citizens, military personnel and ranking officials in the nation’s capital who were among the first to become aware of the Roswell crash, all struggling to come to grips with the event’s shattering implications.

Playwright Marty Martin’s award-winning productions have been staged on Broadway and by regional and university theater companies all over the country. Martin has been writing, directing, and producing plays professionally for 25 years, working intimately with such distinguished artists as Anthony Quinn, Cloris Leachman, Mickey Rooney, and Pat Carroll.

Following the death of playwright Hugh Wheeler, Mr. Martin completed the book for the Broadway production of Meet Me In St. Louis, which was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Book for a Musical,  praised by Time Magazine, Newsweek, Variety and the legendary New York Times theater critic Walter Kerr. 

Productions of Martin’s plays off Broadway have received both Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Arts Recording. Mr. Martin was also the recipient of the Drama Logue Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theater.

Martin’s plays Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein, I Don't Want To Be a Zelda Anymore, and Shaviana enjoyed extended runs in New York. Regional productions of his plays, A Clown of God, the Necessary Luxury Company, Farewell Performance, Diaghilev, and The Bishop have been praised by critics throughout the Southwest.

 Martin’s plays have also been highly acclaimed in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Houston and Dallas, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C., as well as in Mexico, Iceland, Italy and Israel.  Commissioned by Valerie Harper, The Dragon and the Pearl benefited greatly from the encouragement and assistance provided by the Pearl S. Buck Foundation.

In addition, Marty  Martin was resident playwright for the Stratford Festival Theater in Connecticut, sponsored by the American National Theater and Academy, where his plays Whitechapel, Shaviana, and The Bishop were performed by Julie Harris, Tammy Grimes, and Keir Dullea respectively. His newest play, Unwanted Laughter,” is now being considered by Kevin Spacey and Meryl Streep.

Directed by Carol Dishman