I don’t know how it is that Monster Month is already almost half over or where the time went or how I missed yesterday’s Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society (MORLS) “Frankenstein: Two Centuries” event at Crooners Supper Club. Obviously if you are waiting on me and my preview posts to keep up to date on all the latest from the MORLS you are relying on the wrong source. What you need to do is go to https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/ and subscribe to their newsletter. That way if I don’t get a post up you’ll have all the information sent directly to your email box. You know what else you can do on the site? You can become a Patreon Supporter of the MORLS that gives you a link to view a recording of the Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater staged performances that you might not be able to make it to in person. For example like tomorrow nights show which I cannot make it to. Thankfully, I am a Patreon supporter and so I’ll still get to enjoy the the latest installment from this fantastic Theater company.
If you can make it tomorrow night prepare for a program custom made for Monster Month thrills, here’s what’s on the program that includes one recreation of a classic radio script from the series Inner Sanctum and to new scripts from two of the companies artists:
“A Corpse for Halloween” from Inner Sanctum (1949): Severed heads! Shameless puns! Baby tigers! A bizarre tale of psychological horror from the Grand Guignol of Old Time Radio.
“Get to the Castle, Part 2” from Grey Ghost and the Agents of Floor 10 (premiere): The agents discover dark secrets behind the walls of an ancient castle in Austria. This second installment of a three-part serial by Eric Webster includes a recap of the previous thrilling chapter!
“Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy’s Curse” from The Weird Library (premiere): Louisa May Alcott’s classic tale of romance and revenge, adapted for audio by Shanan Custer.
For tickets to tomorrow nights performance at 7:00 PM go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mysterious-old-radio-workshop-tickets-728338067767
For those of you just tuning in The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society are Shanan Custer, Joshua English Scrimshaw, Tim Uren and Eric Webster. This Quartet of radio fanatics bring to life scripts from the golden age of radio as well as original scripts monthly on stages around town. Their performances perfectly emulate the style of the radio programs from the 1930’s on. Along with their vocal work, they also create the sound effects that accompany the tales on stage. Using their voices to paint a picture so vivid that if you close your eyes, you can see the action in your minds eye. There’s something magical about stories told this way. It can engage the audience at times even more than TV or film does because we are given the audio in a way that we use our imagination to fill in the visuals, it requires a more interactive response on our part. I’m a huge fan of this forgotten art form and always get a huge kick out of these performances.
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