Where are we?

We're still around - but in the shadows.

Director, Producer, Head writer and bottle washer - yours truly - have been involved in so many sound design projects - my head's spinning.

Since TRTC's last project - Alice in Wonderland, I've worked on sound for:

Watertower Theatre's "Wonderful Life", Contemporary Theatre's "SantaLand",
ICT's "Sherlock Holmes Last Case", Echo Theatre's "Nibroc trilogy", Rover Dramaworks' "Around the World in 80 days"

As I write this, I'm currently working on Slappy's Puppet Playhouse' "Charlotte's Web", ICT's "Heaven Can Wait", and Theatre Three's "Murder on the Nile"

If I had the time I'd dust off a script and organize a live performance or live recording just for the fun of it.

Maybe I'll have a break soon - and when I do, I'll post it here.

Meantime - I'm going to dust off the podcast so look for new episodes on that in the next month or so.

Thanks for checking in, and watch more radio!

Rich

Alice in Wonderland Performance!

REMINDER!



This weekend and next, the Texas Radio Theatre Company is presenting an audio adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Where better to experience the mad world of the Cheshire Cat, The White Rabbit, Caterpillar and Queen of Hearts than in the infinite realm of your imagination?

I couldn't think of one either... so come on down. Featuring a cast of thousands (6 actually). It's a fun show that runs just over an hour, performed in the style of old time radio, complete with bells, whistles, little doors, shoes on sticks, balloons, tubs of water, duck calls and all sorts of live sound effects.

Saturday November 8th, 2:00 pm at the Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine Texas 76051
817-410-3400
Free - (donations accepted)
www.grapevine.lib.tx.us/

Saturday November 15th, 2:00 pm at the Dallas Public Library
1515 Young St.
4th Floor
Dallas, Texas 75201
Free - (donations accepted)
http://dallaslibrary.org

Late Summer News

There are three announcements regarding our little troupe.



First the podcast has been on hiatus for the summer. We'll resume the weekly podcast in September with CLIFF PROTON and the PAN DIMENSIONAL COMMISSARY.



Second through a freak accident, the TRTC is producing a sketch series for KLUV-FM called THE ADVENTURES OF ALBERTSON: THE PAPER BAG WEATHER PUPPET



Third, our next live (concrete) performance and recording will be ALICE in WONDERLAND.

The dates for that will be November 8th in Grapevine Library and November 15th - Dallas Public Library

More news and or details coming soon!

Garbage Fairies - June 27th and 28th

The Texas Radio Theatre Company in cooperation with the Arlington Museum of Art present our next live performance:

The Garbage Fairies
an audio play written by Richard Frohlich and directed by Richard Frohlich and Bill Fountain.

Featuring the voice talents of Mira Fountain as Jessica, Brandi Andrade, Bryan Douglas, Clark Hackney, David Novinski and Sheela Rose.

Live sound effects by Ken Raney



Where in our modern world can you find mysterious creatures who don't wish to be found? Perhaps the junked up lots or corners piled with trash are more than what they appear. One night Jessica, a young girl who loves stories about elves, fairies and dragons wishes to see them for real, so her dog Fred takes her to meet the Garbage Fairies. Witness a modern fairy tale where all the action takes place on the infinite stage of your imagination.

Two shows!

Friday June 27th - 8:00 pm
Arlington Museum of Art / 201 West Main Street
Arlington TX 76010 817-275-4600

Saturday June 28th - 2:00 pm
Dallas Public Library / 1515 Young St.
4th Floor / Dallas, Texas 75201

Cliff Proton April Performance

PREVIEW 1:


PREVIEW 2:


Cliff Proton and the Loose Jelly at the Edge of the Galaxy

An audio play from The Texas Radio Theatre Company written and directed by Richard Frohlich and performed in front of YOU (assuming you're able to come to our shows). Produced in cooperation with the Texas Radio Theatre Company and the Arlington Museum of Art

Featuring the voice talents of A.J. Glendenning, Jonathan Cooper, David Grant, Dona Safran, Bryan Douglas, Richard Milla and Ken Raney


April 25th at 8pm
Arlington Museum of Art
201 West Main Street
Arlington Texas 76010
($5 suggested donation)

April 26th at 2pm
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, Texas 76051

The Grapevine performance is sponsored by the BRITISH EMPORIUM - tea and biscuits provided at the show!

April 27th at 7pm
ICT Studio
2333 Rochelle
Irving, Texas 76062
Admission : $7

This is the lucky seventh story of Cliff Proton... Space Ranger, the most decorated and accident prone space ranger in the Earth Space Federation.

Witness as he bravely travels the cosmos with Robot: his dedicated metal companion, and the universally renowned know-it-all: Doctor Heterodyne standing up for everything good and decent (and fixing anything they might have broken along the way).

This time, a mysterious goo (or jelly) is found to be seeping into our galaxy, eating up everything in it's path. It's Cliff's job to find out what's causing it, and how to stop it before it gets to Earth.

What will happen when these two destructive forces meet... will anything be left standing (or floating... or whatever things do in space)?

Find out in this future gripping futuristic adventure of the future!

Please visit www.texasradiotheatre.com for more info

Colonel Nickels

We just finished podcasting the very first Colonel Nickels play we produced:



PART 1:


PART 2:


PART 3:


Some have asked if there are more. Yes...

a few. And you shall hear them in the future. Just not right now.

They are:

The Lost City of Peril



The Creature from 50,000 and 1 fathoms



The Seamonkeys of Atlantis



and the (maybe someday to be produced) Troglodytes of Tasmania:



Yeah, I know it says April... but I assure you - it's not THIS april

TRTC On line store

In the past we printed up our own shirts - but just for the sake of convenience - T-shirts, stickers, buttons and other doo-dads are now available on our new on-line store, thanks to cafepress:

http://www.cafepress.com/txradiotheatre

Next on the Podcast!

Coming up on Saturday - the first part of:

Cliff Proton and the
Curiously Familiar Space Vikings
from Dimension Q...



Curiously familiar?... I'll give you a hint...

they're called The Borgen!

Sign up, line up and log onto our podcast
at texasradio.libsyn.com today!

Teenagers from Outer Space

They're HEEEEREEE!! (as reprinted from the Schlock Audio site)

Episode #10 TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE is available for download now! Listen to the episode now or go behind the scenes with the Texas Radio Theatre for some Teenagers bloopers! Get the bloopers HERE!

Check us out on Audio Drama Talk!

Flash doesn't mind...

Flash Gordon Continues!

Early this millenium, the One Act Players produced FLASH GORDON... episode 1.



Shortly afterwards, in 2002... The Texas Radio Theatre Company produced that and a continuation... which would roughly cover the original episodes 1 and 2...

Then a sequel was produced... THE TERROR OF THE HAWKMEN.

Now... for the first time EVER, the Texas Radio Theatre Company releases the three parts of:



Part one will be available on our podcast (Saturday)

Now podcasting!

"A Biscotti Family Christmas"

Recorded in front of a studio audience at the Arlington Museum of Art - December 2005

Sam is the boss of the Biscotti family business, a shady organization in the city. Sam is dropped off at this nightclub where he believes his annual Christmas party is about to take place. He had left all the planning to Frankie, his son. Frankie is using the opportunity to get rid of his father and take over the family business. All the plans are suddenly ‘messed up’ when Amaretta, a disoriented old lady, wanders onto the scene and changes everyone’s lives forever.

Visit our Podcast to hear this and an assortment of our other audio plays.

Sherlock Holmes and the Final Problem

The Texas Radio Theatre Company in cooperation with the Arlington Museum of Art present "Sherlock Holmes and the Final Problem"

Adapted by Julie Barrett

Directed by Richard Frohlich

Featuring the voice talents of:

Robert Clover Brown
Margot Copel
David Grant
Sheela Kadam
Bryan Lockett
Richard Milla
Spencer Prokop,
and Ken Raney

Four performances in the metroplex at four different venues:

Friday November 16th, 8:00pm at the Arlington Museum of Art

201 W. Main Street

Arlington, TX 76010

817-275-4600

$5 suggested donation

http://www.arlingtonmuseum.org/

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Saturday November 17th, 2:00pm at the Grapevine Public Library

1201 Municipal Way

Grapevine Texas 76051

817-410-3400

Free - (donations accepted)

www.grapevine.lib.tx.us/

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Sunday November 18th, 7pm at ICT Studio

2333 Rochelle

Irving Texas 76062

972-594-6104

Admission $7

http://www.irvingtheatre.org/new/studio.htm/

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Saturday Dec 1st, 2pm at theDallas Public Library

J. Erik Jonsson Central Library

Fine Arts Dept - 4th Floor

1515 Young St., Dallas, TX 75201

http://dallaslibrary.org/

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The Texas Radio Theatre presents an audio adaptation of one of Sherlock Homles' most notorious cases, featuring literature's first super villain - Professor James Moriarty. How great must Holmes sacrifice be to rid the world of such a complete and diabolical menace?

The Texas Radio Theatre Company performs and records a time-honored form of entertainment known as audio (or radio) theatre reminiscent of radio's golden age. Though linked to the past, modern audio theatre takes the story to a place that television and film struggle to reach, featuring an unrivaled realism found only in your imagination.

For more information log onto our webpage at http://www.texasradiotheatre.com

Holmes Bigger than the Sun!

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Comet Holmes' coma is now the largest single object in the solar system.

Yahoo News Story

It last erupted like this in 1892

Coincidence??????

Tell everyone they must come and see Holmes...

in the Final Problem performed by the Texas Radio Theatre this weekend and on Dec 1st

Show Info

Donation Page/Jar

For years the audience of our live performances have been treated to the pathetic heart-breaking and slightly melodramatic cries of Zippy, our invisible donation jar elf, as he attempts to save his life by escaping from our donation jar.

TRTC Donation Jar - the home of Zippy

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Each performance he is able to make his escape, only to be thrown back into the jar for the next show. His rescue is always dependent upon your kindness and generosity... which thanks to you has be consistently forthcoming.

Now "exclusive donation jar audio" has been added to our website and blog - and you can experience that life or death urgency from the comfort of your computer or ipod. Relish the pleas. Savor the whimpers. Relive all the fun times from a live Texas Radio Theatre Performance. Just Click the audio link below -

Please help Zippy or he'll DIE!

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And do visit our donations page so Zippy won't die....

Red Headed League Podcast

The Texas Radio Theatre podcast has returned. Since we're performing THE FINAL PROBLEM later this month, we're offering all of our Sherlock Holmes recordings from 2002 to present. Coming soon:

• THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES,
• THE SIGN OF FOUR,
• THE AMBERCROMBIE FORGERY,
• and THE CASE OF DOYLE'S DIARY

This week:

Texas Radio Theatre 08 - Red Headed League

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Red Headed League

A radio recreation originally adapted by Edith Miser. Directed by Richard Frohlich and Produced by the Texas Radio Theatre Company. Recorded in front of a studio audience November 2002

The Cast (in alphabetical order):
Bill Flynn...........……………….......... Sherlock Holmes
Gary Layton..........……………………........ Dr. Watson
Keven Nash...................... Jebez Wilson / Merryweather
Jess Price..........................Vincent Spaulding / John Clay
Ken Raney............………………………..... Announcer

The Crew:
Hina Padhiar / Ken Raney ....……. Live Sound Effects
Richard Frohlich.... Engineering, Prerecorded Music and SFX
Shannan Frohlich......………….....Executive Producer

Special Thanks to the Arlington Museum of Art and the Coffee Haus at Lincoln Square

Length: 28:31 min, Size: 13.4mb

Time to blow the stink off!

This blog has been sitting dormant for too darned long.

Lots of things are going on in the month of November, so here they are:

ROBOT MONSTER

The Texas Radio Theatre Company has joined forces with Schlock Audio Theater to produce new audio send-ups to the best worst movies of all time

SCHLOCK AUDIO THEATER

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Hear our newest production of ROBOT MONSTER and more at

http://www.schlockaudio.com/

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Currently available for download

(click to stream - right-click [save as] to download)

Recorded at a secretly concealed audio installation deep in the heart of Colleyville, Texas

Adapted by Charles E. Pratt Jr.
Directed and Recorded by Richard Frohlich


Featuring the voice talents of:


Reg Platt ..................... Viktor, Ro-Man
Bryan Douglas ................. Begore, Professor
Kelly Scott ................... Johnny
Susan McMath Platt ............ Carla, Martha
Richard Milla ................. Roy
Dona Safran ................... Alice
Mitch Carr .................... Great Guidance


Incidentally, this is the FIRST time a complete Texas Radio Theatre Company production has been available on line IMMEDIATELY after it was completed.

2007 - 2008 Season

August 2007

Cliff Proton and the Planet of Luuuv

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September 2007

An Evening with Jeeves and Wooster

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November/December 2007

Sherlock Holmes and the Final Problem

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April 2008

Cliff Proton and the Loose Jelly at the Edge of the Universe

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June 2008

The Garbage Fairies

Public Radio Talent Quest

Do you have what it takes to be public radio's next great host? Do you have that most elusive of qualities - hostiness?

Now is your chance.

We're casting a wide net to find new talent for public radio, and giving away over $70,000 along the way.

http://www.publicradioquest.com/

Check it out. Give them a listen... record your own.

Yes, I even tossed my hat in the ring.
(All part of my cunning plan - [insert diabolical laughter])

Next up: Cliff Proton in August

Our Colonel Nickels play was a great success. By the time we did our last show in Irving, all the cues were being hit right - everyone was sounding good - and the energy was perfect.

It's going to be a little bit of time before we launch our next show:

Cliff Proton and the Planet of Luuuuv! (Bow Chicka Bow Wow).

The plan is to hold auditions (if we have open auditions) at the end of July.

The performance dates will be August 24th at the Arlington Museum of Art (which ought to be fully re-opened by then), August 25th at the Grapevine Library (they enjoyed having us last time, and we enjoyed performing there), August 26th at the ICT Studio in Irving, and maybe one more performance the following week. I have to figure out where.

The basic story is that Cliff is buried under in paperwork and decides that maybe it would be good to go on a simple date. He starts by asking Space Ranger Sarah out, but before he knows it, he gets more than he bargained for, and is trapped (T R A P P E D) on the Planet of Luuuuuv (Bow Chicka Bow Wow).