Production History

Lucille Fletcher’s Sorry, Wrong Number was the sixth installment of CST LiveOnline!, presented October 16–17, 2020, at 7 p.m. each evening, during Season 37 (2020–2021). The production was broadcast live as radio-with-video from RK-1 Productions’ studio near Scissortail Park. Audiences watched free on CST’s YouTube channel, with donations requested. CST’s website provided a link to the broadcast. The regular mainstage season opening had been postponed because of COVID-19. The thriller follows a bedridden woman who overhears a murder plot through a crossed telephone connection. Her increasingly desperate calls for help turn the telephone into both her lifeline and the source of mounting danger. Fletcher’s original radio drama premiered on Suspense in 1943, starring Agnes Moorehead, and became a 1948 film starring Barbara Stanwyck.

CST Connections

The presentation continued CST’s pandemic-era LiveOnline! series, following its September 2020 Fibber McGee and Molly installment.
Christine Lanning, credited as Christine Lanning Hamel in the supplied earlier record, played Zena in Out of Sterno (2013).
Ed Spinelli later played Freddy in Picasso at the Lapin Agile (2023).
Terry Veal later played Sagot in that same production and Irving Sultan in Pictures from Home (2026).
Lana Henson previously played Rhetta Cupp in Pump Boys and Dinettes (1986) and later played Juanita Bartlett in Sordid Lives (2026).
Rhonda Clark directed Picasso at the Lapin Agile, which inaugurated public mainstage performances at CST’s Reno Avenue theatre.
RK-1 Productions donated its broadcast services, supporting CST’s continued programming during the shutdown. BroadwayWorld

Press and Photography

“CST LiveOnline! Presents SORRY, WRONG NUMBER” — BroadwayWorld, October 14, 2020, announcement by A.A. Cristi, confirming the cast, director, broadcast arrangements, and schedule. BroadwayWorld
CST YouTube video
September 2020 Fibber McGee and Molly coverage — The Oklahoman, preceding-series context.

Acknowledgments

Broadcast Services — RK-1 Productions

Annual Sponsors — Ed and Janet Bucknell; Mel and Cindy Ables

Supported in part by the Oklahoma Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Kirkpatrick Family Fund, Inasmuch Foundation, and Allied Arts.

Licensing

Current stage-performance licensing is listed through Concord Theatricals.

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Christine Lanning