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His Voice was “Magically Delicious”

April 12, 2016 / / 0 Comments

13Anderson1Obit-master675Great loss to the world of radio drama and voice acting on April 10th, when Arthur Anderson passed away at the age of 93. The New York Times article reported:

Arthur Anderson, who performed on radio as a teenager with Orson Welles’s Mercury Theater and appeared on Broadway, in films and on television, but whose most enduring role was as the voice of Lucky Charms cereal’s leprechaun, died on Saturday in Manhattan.

As the last of the Golden Age of Radio begins to fade into the distance, I find myself thinking back as to how much of an impact they made, not just on those children who grew up with radio and radio drama, but the grandchildren, and the great grandchildren. My parents loved radio plays and bought LP’s for me to listen to in my formative years. Even now, archive.org keeps putting more and more old time radio shows into the public domain. Go through the available Mercury and Campbell’s Playhouse Theatres and have some time to listen to Anderson’s salad years.

Rest well, sweet prince!

Vintage Hitchcock Radio

April 11, 2016 / / 0 Comments

2-s47dtu_preview_featuredThe Oskaloosa Herald shares an exciting live radio theatre performance:

With “Vintage Hitchcock,” performed by William Penn University’s theatre department, you will visit neither London nor the 1920s, but you will become the audience of a radio show from several eras. “I really would like the audience to come in and take time to close [their] eyes and just listen to what it sounds like. This is designed to be a radio play, and we really tried to tackle it from that point of view,” said director Andy McGuire.

Three of Alfred Hitchcock’s early films have been adapted into radio plays by playwright Joe Landry. “The Lodger” will be first, followed by “Sabotage.” After a brief intermission, “The 39 Steps” will finish out the evening. “They’re all made with great reverence and love for Hitchcock,” said McGuire. The filmmaker is known for being a master of nail-biting suspense and the thriller genre. “A lot of times people think of theatre as this farce and this comedy. These plays are fun, they have their fun moments, but they’re not really comedies.”

Find out everything about Friday and Saturday’s performances that are offered free from this article College Students to Perform Vintage Hitchcock.

 

Tigers and Bunnies and Audio Drama, Oh My!

April 10, 2016 / / 0 Comments

tigerbunnyA growing popular add to a BluRay collection seems to be additional audio drama programmes. With the popular Japanese animation Tiger & Bunny there’s a brand new radio drama with the whole cast.

Crunchy roll has all the details:

The Japanese Tiger & Bunny Bluray Box will include all 25 episodes of the original TV series on 12 Bluray discs. In addition to the bonus materials included in the 9 individual Tiger & Bunny Bluray releases, the new box set will also include an original audio drama CD and new interviews with the voice cast.

Divergent’s Last Flop is Good News For Audio Drama Fans

April 9, 2016 / / 0 Comments

divergent-ascendant-radio-dramaIf you’ve been following the Box Office, Divergent‘s latest chapter, Insurgent, has been disappointing.

So disappointing in fact, that “they who hold the purse strings” have cut the final movie from the trilogy. But, unlike what normally would occur without any followup, the final book- Ascendant will be made into an audio drama.

The article in hypable by Katie Awad entitled crisply as Final Divergent Film to be Released as Radio Drama  everyone involved seems genuinely dismayed at the thought.

But, we at the Sonic Society, see it differently.

How fantastic is audio drama’s rise that the Hollywood Film houses see even a marketable radio drama product can be made from lackluster movie sails. This can only bode well for our favourite medium!

Iowa Weekend!

April 8, 2016 / / 0 Comments

5Are you in southeast Iowa for the weekend? Check out The Ottumwa Courier‘s suggestions for 5 Things to Do This Weekend.

I’m assuming its in reverse order of importance because their #5 is Live Radio Drama!

From the article:

5. Laugh the night away with the Davis County Players this Friday and Saturday evening as they present a night of old-time radio with a Bloomfield twist in the tradition of “A Prairie Home Companion.” The audience gets to watch a radio show unfold right before its very eyes, complete with plays, sketches, ad parodies and fantastic music. It’s two evenings of live radio at the Iowa Theatre in Bloomfield, with the “State Line Old Time Radio Revue,” featuring five short radio plays by Broadway playwright Eric Coble as well as several additional comedy sketches, live music and much more — all under the guise of a fictional live radio broadcast on the fictional radio station, JMMG, 92.4. Showtime is 7 p.m. April 1-2. Tickets are available at Perfect Touch Wellness Center in Bloomfield or at the door before showtime.

The Art of Visuals Through Sound

April 8, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Malaka-Dewapriya-209x300From The Sunday Times, filmmaker Malaka Dewapriya talks about his long time love of radio drama and two of his new releases:

will launch his two audio CDs tilted “Kanata Parak” (Earful of Visuals) containing  14  Radio Plays at 3. 00 p.m. onwards on April 7 at the Auditorium of the Mahaweli Centre, Colombo.

The main speakers at the event will be Dr. Dharmasena Pathiraja, Lucian Bulathsinhala, and Dr. Sunil Wijesiriwardana and they will speak on the subject of contemporary radio art. The anchor will be eminent playwright, E.M.D Upali.

The collection in ‘Kanata Parak’ includes twelve Sinhala medium and two Tamil medium plays. The titles of these plays are “Tharuwan Saranai(Blessed by Star)”, ‘Nihon Sepalebewa’ (May you attend comfort worldly life in Nihon)”, “Alayaka Damanaya (Love Tamed)”, Nirabhishekana (Felicitation)”, “Nirwasthran ParamanSukhan(Naked is the best policy )”, “Funsalak”, Roma Ruupana (Perform in Rome )”, “Suwadena Agni (Soothing Fire)”, “RangadenaKapuwo(Trickster Matchmakers)”, EkathanaKerakuma(Stagnation)”, “Nawanalu Dahama (Tele Actor)”, and “Bashmaanthara( inter action )”.

 

Trap Released…

April 5, 2016 / / 0 Comments

ackbarThe audio drama and Star Wars world is whirling at the news that Erik Bauersfeld passed away. Known widely as Admiral Ackbar from the famous Return of the Jedi episode of the original trilogy, Bauersfeld was known mostly as a radio man who acted for decades in our favourite medium. NPR has a great series of references to his iconic Star Wars character in this article about the Star Wars Voice Actor…  Bauersfeld stumbled into the famous role while working on an audio drama for Lucasfilm. A prolific and respected radio dramatist as well as a longtime fixture of Berkeley station KPFA, Bauersfeld worked in radio for much of his life. He adapted, performed and produced full-length productions of classic dramas for radio, including the work of Eugene O’Neill, Edgar Allen Poe, Guy De Maupassant, Franz Kafka and Fyodor Dostoyesvsky.

And the Award for Best Audio Fiction Journalism Goes to…?

April 2, 2016 / / 0 Comments

02SARAHS-master675If you talk to people who have been making audio drama for years there are two things that frustrate them the most:

  • people who think that they have single-handedly brought back radio drama from the grave
  • people who don’t recognize the amazing trailblazers in the audio drama movement

We read this time and time again from Audio Drama Talk and the Facebook group we created back in 2009, the Audio Drama/Radio Drama Lovers Facebook Group. Member Jodi Ellyn brought us this New York Times article: And the Awards for Best Audio Fiction Go to…

The article refers to the Sarah Awards from Sarah Lawrence College to honour the best in Audio Fiction.

We love more light shone upon the audio drama world, but you can imagine our concern when the author, Joshua Barone made some erroneous assumptions about AD.

For example, Mr. Barone said, “…Sarah Awards, billed as the first award ceremony for audio fiction.” but long time listeners know that The Audie Awards and The Mark Time Awards are two far more well known awards.

We hope that Ann Heppermann, a founder of the Sarah Awards will take some time to listen to what’s out there, and realize we have a very robust community of audio drama already happening in the 21st century, and we welcome your participation.

 

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