 In February 1922, entire Broadway musical comedies with the original casts aired from WJZ's Newark studios.Actors Grace George and Herbert Hayes performed an entire play from a San Francisco station in the summer of 1922.An important turning point in radio drama came when Schenectady, New York's WGY, after a successful tryout on August 3, 1922, began weekly studio broadcasts of full-length stage plays in September 1922, using music, sound effects and a regular troupe of actors, The WGY Players.