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Sonic Summerstock Presents: Arsenic and Old Lace

Gwendolyn Jensen-Woodard and Gypsy Audio presents our final show for the 2015 Sonic Summerstock Playhouse season with the classic comedy “Arsenic and Old Lace”. Enjoy!

Arsenic and Old Lace as performed by the Screen Guild Theatre
based on the play by Joseph Kesselring. Adapted for Gypsy Audio by Alex Gilmour 
Produced by Alex Gilmour
Executive producer Gwendolyn Jensen-Woodard
Starring Dave Maciver as Mortimer Brewster, Cary Ayes as Jonathan Brewster, Julie Hoverson as Abby Brewster, Gwendolyn Jensen-Woodard as Martha Brewster, Chris Blakeley as Doctor Einstein, Bill Hollweg as O’Hara, Stacy Dooks as Teddy, Alex Gilmour as Withersoopn and Brophy,  and Melissa Bartell as the narrator.
Featuring There’s No Coffee in Hell  sleepFacingWest http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/628331
“Bass Walker” and “Sidewalk Shade – slower” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Sound effects from http://freesound.org
This recording is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No derivatives 4.0 International licence. Gypsy Audio.org 2015

 

Show Me the Podcasting!

podcastingA couple of posts ago we spoke about the value of giving your audio drama away for free. Today, we’re going to ask about the Future of Podcasting from the article in Tech Crunch that asks effectively:

What’s it going to take for Podcasting to have a breakthrough?

Podcasting is well over a decade long and there have been few super star stories. Podcasts that are home run often have some kind of help. Harmontown has the benefit of being the brainchild of superstar Community creator and writer. Dan Harmon. Acerbic Adam Carolla also has the benefit of his previous television effort, The Man Show. Even the monster hit, Serial had the backing, technical efforts and launch platform of NPR. Many podcasters are frustrated with the focus on music only, that seems to be still carrying the lion’s share of hearts and minds. But there is hope? When will podcasting break out on its own?

OTR Appreciation 101

Jack and David provide a little post mortem on Season 10 and the first decade of the Sonic Society while giving away hints at the upcoming season in the Fall. Meanwhile, John Bell and the gang from the Batfry give us a brief interlude from our recreations of OTR for Sonic Summerstock Playhouse with an analysis of one episode of The Lone Ranger in OTR Appreciation 101.

 

Talking Heads?

talkingheadsThere’s always been a concern that you shouldn’t write your audio drama with just “talking heads”. The concept suggesting that characters need to be active to be effective in an audio story.

I’m not sure that’s entirely true. While we love action, we can think of some really effective stories that don’t need a lot of change of settings or violence or even massive change ups of characters.

My Dinner with Andre is a good example as is Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth. or the classic 12 Angry Men by television pioneer and dramatist Reginald Rose which has been recently re-enacted by Narada Radio Theatre and Society member in good standing Pete Lutz.

As a writer make a good story. Whether its Sherlock Holmes in the study explaining the crime to Watson or Percy Atherton and the Maudelayne team breaking up ancient deities’ poke matches, the beginning and ending point is always good story and great characters.

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