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mmcirvinNow the astounding truth can be told: The Post-Meridian Radio Players are playing the Orpheum on New Year's Eve.
This is the PMRP's biggest-time project ever, an hour and a half of live audio drama on stage at the Boston Orpheum as part of First Night 2009 (buttons now for sale!). Come one, come all!
We're going to begin the evening with an extremely funny episode of PMRP's ongoing series Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder, followed by a return performance of the bizarre and unsettling 1937 Lights Out episode "Chicken Heart", the same piece that the Post-Meridian Radio Players did for its very first performance in October 2005, paving the way for our popular Halloween Tomes of Terror shows.
I'm acting in "Chicken Heart", reprising my role as the increasingly panicky Lab Assistant, a briefly appearing Fireman and miscellaneous crowd voices. It will actually be the fourth time we've performed it, counting a live performance at the Arisia science-fiction convention in 2006 (which similarly paved the way for regular Arisia performances of Red Shift) and a studio recording we did that year.
In those earlier performances, Sam played one of the meddling trustees' wives who accidentally bring about the chicken heart's rampage, and some crowd voices. Unfortunately she can't make it this time around, since toddler care makes it hard for us to perform together in anything with regular evening rehearsals (and she's already in the Middlesex Concert Band). The part of Lady #3 will be performed by Delilah Webb, who played Baby Snooks' Mommy in Tomes of Terror III.
I'm feeling really good about this cast—most of the original "Chicken Heart" cast is back, including both of the principal actors (Mike McAfee and Rob "![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derspatchel" Noyes, who also feature prominently in Red Shift, which stars Mike and is written and directed by Rob). The open parts have been filled by seasoned PMRP folk, including some of my fellow cast members from the funny bits of Tomes of Terror II and III. This time around, three-time Tomes of Terror director Renée "eclecticavatar" Johnson is directing "Chicken Heart".
Both pieces have digital sound effects assembled by PMRP's founder, the incomparable Neil "audioboy" Marsh, and "Chicken Heart" will also feature practical sound effects done live in the theater the old-fashioned way! In between, the effects people are planning to have a close-up demonstration of some of the stuff they do.
This is the PMRP's biggest-time project ever, an hour and a half of live audio drama on stage at the Boston Orpheum as part of First Night 2009 (buttons now for sale!). Come one, come all!
We're going to begin the evening with an extremely funny episode of PMRP's ongoing series Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder, followed by a return performance of the bizarre and unsettling 1937 Lights Out episode "Chicken Heart", the same piece that the Post-Meridian Radio Players did for its very first performance in October 2005, paving the way for our popular Halloween Tomes of Terror shows.
I'm acting in "Chicken Heart", reprising my role as the increasingly panicky Lab Assistant, a briefly appearing Fireman and miscellaneous crowd voices. It will actually be the fourth time we've performed it, counting a live performance at the Arisia science-fiction convention in 2006 (which similarly paved the way for regular Arisia performances of Red Shift) and a studio recording we did that year.
In those earlier performances, Sam played one of the meddling trustees' wives who accidentally bring about the chicken heart's rampage, and some crowd voices. Unfortunately she can't make it this time around, since toddler care makes it hard for us to perform together in anything with regular evening rehearsals (and she's already in the Middlesex Concert Band). The part of Lady #3 will be performed by Delilah Webb, who played Baby Snooks' Mommy in Tomes of Terror III.
I'm feeling really good about this cast—most of the original "Chicken Heart" cast is back, including both of the principal actors (Mike McAfee and Rob "
derspatchel" Noyes, who also feature prominently in Red Shift, which stars Mike and is written and directed by Rob). The open parts have been filled by seasoned PMRP folk, including some of my fellow cast members from the funny bits of Tomes of Terror II and III. This time around, three-time Tomes of Terror director Renée "eclecticavatar" Johnson is directing "Chicken Heart".Both pieces have digital sound effects assembled by PMRP's founder, the incomparable Neil "
audioboy" Marsh, and "Chicken Heart" will also feature practical sound effects done live in the theater the old-fashioned way! In between, the effects people are planning to have a close-up demonstration of some of the stuff they do.