Friday, October 30, 2009

For Halloween - The Brazilian Cat


The Brazilian Cat

Adapted for audio by Jim Cort from a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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One of the many stories Doyle wrote outside his famous Sherlock Holmes works. It's a horror-adventure story that begins with a young man with aristocratic connections, but no money hoping to live with, and possibly fend off some creditors with the help of his wealthy first cousin, a man who has the curious hobby of collecting strange and dangerous exotic pets.

The short story is part of Doyle's "Tales of Terror and Mystery" collection.

Voice talents by David Grant, Kevin Nash, Dale Leena Evans, Larry Groebe and Gary Layton.
Music by Lucien Désar.
Directed and Mixed by Richard Frohlich


Recorded in studio July 2004, in cooperation with the Arlington Museum of Art

Saturday, October 24, 2009

H.G. Wells' The Time Machine


The Texas Radio Theatre Company adapts H.G. Wells' classic story, where we travel to the year 100,080 and a world where beauty and terror live side-by-side. Suddenly the time machine, our only exit, is missing. Could the docile and weak inhabitants called Eloi be something other than what they appear, or is there something lurking in the shadows.

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This audio play was recorded at the Arlington Museum of Art on May 30th 2009 in front of a studio audience and includes the voice talents of Larry Groebe, Gary Layton, Tiffany Lonsdale-Hands, Ken Raney, Kelly Scott and Ric Spiegel.

Ken Raney provides the live sound effects and Richard Frohlich directs and engineers.

The play runs approximately 38 minutes.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Coming soon...

Son of Schlock!

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Tales of Tomorrow Recreation



The Texas Radio Theatre Company recreates this lost ABC radio Tales of Tomorrow episode called "Syndrome Johnny" by Charles Dye about the world ravaged by pandemic after pandemic.

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This radio play was recorded at the Arlington Museum of Art on May 30th 2009 in front of a studio audience and includes the voice talents of Larry Groebe, Gary Layton, Tiffany Lonsdale-Hands, Ken Raney, Kelly Scott and Ric Spiegel.

Ken Raney provides the live sound effects and Richard Frohlich directs and engineers.

The play runs approximately 30 minutes.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Happy Birthday TRTC...

After reading on Audio Drama Talk that Decoder Ring Theatre just turned four, I looked back to when Texas Radio Theatre first performed.

I knew it was sometime in October 2001... but I had to look back through my hard drive records and I found out that we were officially 8 years old YESTERDAY.

On October 15, 2001 we performed our first play in front of an audience at a Barnes and Nobel in North Richland Hills, Texas in cooperation with the Tarrant Area Guild of Storytellers.


We performed "Domingo Siete" it was an enormous hit, and no recordings exist.

We performed our second show, and OTR recreation of War of the Worlds at a the "Someplace Else Pub" in Arlington Texas on October 31st

The second show had us feeling a bit like the Blues Brothers... because the bar we performed in was filled with folks waiting for us to get done, because we were encroaching on their karaoke time.

So although we had been working on scripts and gathering people for nearly a year prior... we first performed 8 years ago yesterday -

so... Happy Birthday to us!

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Teenagers from Outerspace on line!



Schlock Audio and Texas Radio Theatre have teamed up a second time to poke holes in the cheesiest efforts of cinema. Our newest target is the cheaply made, yet admirably ambitious "Teenagers from Outer Space" (1959 - Tom Graeff)

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Hosts Victor and Begore take you on an audio journey through the finer points (and holes) of the (alleged) plot, in half the time it takes you to get through the actual film.

It was adapted by Charles E Pratt Jr. It was directed recorded and edited by Richard Frohlich and featured the voice Talents of Reg Platt as Victor, Grandpa, Captain and Cop 1 / Bryan Douglas as Begore / Bryan Lockette as Derek / Kelly Scott as Betty / Larry Groebe as Thor, Astronomer and Cop 2 / Richard Milla as the Gas Station Attendant, Morel and Joe / Susan McMath Platt as Saul, an anonymous car driver and the Power Guy / Robert Clover Brown as Dr. Mason, Dr Johnson and Supreme Excellence / Ken Raney as the Driver of Thor's Ride and an unnamed detective / Margo Copel as Alice / And Finally Mitch Carr as the Radio Announcer.

Thank you for listening to Schlock Audio Theatre - please visit texasradiotheatre.com for more information about future productions, and links to past shows.

Enjoy the cheesy goodness, and remember to strap those audio goggles on - it never hurts to be too careful.

This Production - © 2008 Charles E Pratt Jr.

Thursday, October 08, 2009

Coming Soon!

Here's the plan.

This week, on the podcast:

Oct 10 - Teenagers from Outerspace - full Schlock Audio Theatre episode

then

Oct 17 - Syndrome Johnny - Tales of Tomorrow (lost episode recreation)

followed by

Oct 24 H.G. Wells "The Time Machine"

and to round out October, Arthur Conan Doyles: "The Brazilian Cat" on Halloween Oct 31st.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Son of Schlock

"Son of Schlock Audio Theatre" is soon to be made ALIVE!!!.

Tentative recording date is set for late October/early November.

The first episode will be an audio send-up of Kinji Fukasak's 1980 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie: VIRUS! With any luck it will be released by Halloween. Stay Tuned

Saturday, October 03, 2009

Robot Monster to kick off (dust off) our podcast




Our episode of Robot Monster we cooperated with Schlock Audio Theatre to produce is now on line (check our podcast for details)

If you have not heard this audio send-up to the cheesy 50's B-Movie of the same name, you will not be disappointed.

Coming up in the next few weeks "Teenagers from Outerspace"

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