C-R-T YEAR IN REVIEW

As we wind down our 17th season at C-R-T, we can look back at a productive 12 months. Here is our year in review

2012
JAN. 
16: Recording Session POWDER RIVER SEASON 6: Conversations/ Doc's Peril/The Fond Farewell.
25: Recording Session - pick ups

RELEASES
Toby Tyler- or Ten Weeks With A Circus
Moonfleet
Shiloh

FEB. 
4: Recording Session for DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
21: Recording Session - pick ups
27: Recording Session - Snowman 1 THE STAR ANGEL
28: Recording Session - JEEVES AND WOOSTER:Leave It To Jeeves/FATHER BROWN: The Hammer Of God

RELEASES
The Rivals
Powder River Season 2
Jarrem Lee Ghost Hunter Vol. 1

MAR.
13: Photo shoot for TICONDEROGA cover art.
15: Recording session with Steve DeMonico for THE STAR ANGEL dialog
19: Photo shoot for TICONDEROGA cover art
20: Photo shoot for EMERALD CITY OF OZ
      Recording session with Mark Thurner ('66) for THE STAR ANGEL dialog
      Recording session for VINCENT PRICE PRESENTS - HOUSE OF THE RAVEN
31: Recording session for LOGAN'S RUN - AFTERMATH

RELEASES
Vincent Price Presents - Vol. 3
The Red Badge of Courage
The Alamo
Wrath of the Titans

APR.
5: Recording session with Sam Donato as Old St. Nick dialog / song: Christmas Sparkles, for THE STAR     ANGEL
7: Recording session with Isaac Bean for POWDER RIVER Eps. 12-14.
9: Recording session with Shana Dirik for "Lighthouse" dialog in THE STAR ANGEL
    Recording session with Shana Dirik and Kristen Dattoli for POWDER RIVER
10: Recording session with Joe Caliendo Jr. for LOGAN'S RUN AFTERMATH
16: Recording session for kids in LOGAN'S RUN - AFTERMATH
17: Music recording session with Kerry Donovan THE STAR ANGEL "How Is This Possible" and "Take It Away"
      Recording session with Kerry Donovan  for "Samantha" dialog THE STAR ANGEL
      Recording session with Tom Berry for THE STAR ANGEL dialog.
18: Recording session with Andrew Monroe for THE STAR ANGEL. "Sean's" dialog
19: Music recording session with Shana Dirik:  Just As You Remember/ Rootin' Tootin' Christmas
20: Music recording session with Andrew Monroe THE STAR ANGEL
21: Music recording session with Deniz Cordell for"Christmas Sparkles" THE STAR ANGEL
      Recording session with Deniz Cordell for "Elf" dialog THE STAR ANGEL
26: Music recording session with Tom Berry "How Is This Possible" THE STAR ANGEL
30: Music recording session for chorus THE STAR ANGEL

RELEASES
Shakespeare's Ghost
Powder River Season 3
The Father Brown Mysteries Vol 4

MAY
7: Recording session with Cynthia Pape, dialog for "Mother" THE STAR ANGEL
15: Music recording session with Shana Dirk: Bon Chance/ Take It Away
21: Recording session with John Pease, dialog for "Snowman 1" THE STAR ANGEL
      Music recording session with John Pease: Snowman Spectacular
22: Recording session Episode 1 of BEACON HILL
23: Music recording session with J.T. Turner "Head Snowman" Snowman Spectacular
29: Recording session JEEVES AND WOOSTER: The Aunt And The Sluggard

RELEASES
Tom Corbett - Space Cadet
The Adventures of Old Ironsides

JUN.
1: Music recording session with Mark Thurner
2: Photo shoot for THE STAR ANGEL cover art
3: Recording session JEEVES AND WOOSTER: Extricating Young Gussie
    Recording session: special Ray Bradbury tribute for Sirius XM
    Photo shoot for The Father Brown Mysteries
12: Recording Session for Episode 2 BEACON HILL
14: Music recording session - chorus for THE STAR ANGEL
19: Music recording session - chorus for THE STAR ANGEL
20: Recording session with Isaac Bean for BEACON HILL ep 2
      Photo shoot with Isaac Bean for POWDER RIVER Season 5
26: Recording session POWDER RIVER Season 7 Eps 1-4
27: Music recording session - chorus for THE STAR ANGEL
28: Music recording session for THE STAR ANGEL

RELEASES
Return To Treasure Island
Powder River Season 4
Little Big Horn

JUL.
2: Recording session FATHER BROWN - The Wrong Shape
    Recording session JEEVES AND WOOSTER - Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg
3: Recording session Episode 3 BEACON HILL
9: Recording session THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
10: Music recording session THE STAR ANGEL
16: Recording session POWDER RIVER Season 7 Eps.5,6
17: Recording session Episode 4 BEACON HILL
                                  Episode 5 BEACON HILL
24: Recording session BEACON HILL Ep. 3 pick ups
      Recording session with Ronni Marshak Star Angel dialog THE STAR ANGEL

 RELEASES
Ticonderoga
Jarrem Lee Vol. 2
Allan Quatermain and the Lord of Locusts

AUG.
7: Recording session Episode 7 BEACON HILL.
9: Music recording - Chorus THE STAR ANGEL
10: Music recording with Mark Thurner "Look At Him Go"
      Music recording with Jerry Robbins "Safe In Your memory"
14: Recording session Episode 8 BEACON HILL
14 - CRT Player Hugh Metzler passes away.
20: Recording session for POWDER RIVER Eps 7,8,9
21: Recording session Episode 8 BEACON HILL
22: Music recording session - chorus THE STAR ANGEL
27: Recording session POWDER RIVER Episodes 11,12


RELEASES
Logan's Run - Aftermath
Vincent Price Presents Vol. 3

SEPT.
1: THE STAR ANGEL - sneak preview
19: Photo shoot for BEACON HILL - Becky Klien
20: Photo shoot for BEACON HILL - Colin Budzyna
20: Photo shoot for BEACON HILL - Isaac bean
      Photo shoot for POWDER RIVER - Isaac bean
21: Photo shoot for BEACON HILL - James Tallach
23: Photo shoot for BEACON HILL - Nolan Murphy, Rachel Padell, Natalie Vatcher, Barbara Demsey     West
24: Photo shoot for BEACON HILL - Shana Dirik
24: Recording session for POWDER RIVER Episode 10
26: Photo shoot for BEACON HILL - Cynthia Pape
27: Photo shoot for BEACON HILL - Jerry Robbins

RELEASES
Jarrem Lee Ghost Hunter Vol. 3
The Blockade Runners

OCT.
3: Recording session THE ALL NEW DIBBLE SHOW "Westbrook Wants to Get Fired/Dibble Salute's Jaws/ South Sea Dibble
4: Recording session: FATHER BROWN - Curse Of the Golden Cross
15: Recording session POWDER RIVER Episodes 13,14,15

RELEASES
Vincent Price Vol. 5
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

NOV.
1: Recording session THE BLACK ARROW
4: Premiere of THE STAR ANGEL at the QP Playhouse. Benefit for Dana Farber Childrens Hospital.
14: Recording session: Additional scenes for BEACON HILL Ep. 3

RELEASES
The Star Angel
A Charles Dickens Christmas Collection

 DEC.
18: Recording session for FATHER BROWN - The Mirror of the Magistrate / The Vampire of the Village
27:  Recording session for TOM CORBETT - DANGER IN DEEP SPACE

RELEASES
Powder River Season 5
The Emerald City of Oz 

Looking forward to our 18th year in 2013! Thanks to all our fans for listening!

THE STAR ANGEL

Haven't heard our new Holiday Musical THE STAR ANGEL yet? Here is a little teaser. The show is available on Amazon, iTunes, Audible, everywhere.

CHRISTMAS AT C-R-T

There's something magical about listening to a radio play with your tree all lit up in a darkened room and the sparkles from the ornaments glistening.  TV cannot capture that kind of magic, when your imagination takes over. Kids become enthralled, and adults remember a simpler time when the most important thing on your mind was, "is Santa going to bring me the most important thing on my list?"

Here are the links to our Christmas programs on Amazon (you can also find them on Audible and iTunes as downloads, or at Barnes and Nobel).

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

DICKENS HOLIDAY SAMPLER - Includes THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH and THE SEVEN POOR TRAVELLERS

THE CHIMES

CHARLES DICKENS CHRISTMAS COLLECTION (includes all four of our Dickens productions)

THE STAR ANGEL

Updates

Tonight is the 8th annual broadcast of A CHRISTMAS CAROL on Sirius XM, Ch. 80, 7pm ET, 4pm PT. We recorded this show in November of 2004, I think it was Thanksgiving week, and it was on Audible in early December; just a couple of weeks turn around (of course I edited day and night). Brilliance released it on CD in 2010, and it still does good  business.  The Broadcast will be followed by our 2008 Christmas Special.

THE STAR ANGEL will have an encore broadcast Thur. Dec. 20th at 7pm.

THE SEVEN POOR TRAVELLERS. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH and THE CHIMES are all available on CD and DL from Brilliance. You can find them all on our website at  www.colonialradio.com

Also, please join us on Facebook!

While not a Christmas program, our final new production of 2012 will premiere on Sirius XM Sun. Dec. 30th on Ch. 80. BEACON HILL is set in 1898 Boston, and anyone who likes Upstairs/Downstairs and the popular Downton Abbey may enjoy this radio version of the troubles of the very rich and their staffs. We had a lot of fun with this, and many new actors are introduced to CRT listeners in the 8, one hour episodes.
We will begin recording an additional 8 episodes in the late Spring.

We have two final recording sessions left for this year; THE FATHER BROWN MYSTERIES will record two episodes, and we will also be recording the feature length TOM CORBETT - DANGER IN DEEP SPACE, a sequel to this years hit TOM CORBETT - SPACE CADET.

Speaking of Father Brown, after 16 episodes the series is getting a bit of a make-over. Jeffrey Gage has composed a brand new score that will replace the music we have used in the previous episodes.

That's all for now!  Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and the very best of the Holiday Season to you.

8th ANNUAL BROADCAST

CRT AND DICKENS

Brilliance audio has re-packaged three of our Charles Dickens holiday productions and put them in a nice box set called A CHARLES DICKENS CHRISTMAS. The set includes our productions of THE CHIMES, THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and A CHRISTMAS CAROL.

THANKSGIVING SPECIAL

SLEEPY HOLLOW BROADCAST

Sirius XM Radio will present the 8th annual broadcast of our award winning production, THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW on Halloween night, Wed. Oct. 31st at 8PM Eastern Ch. 80.

AMAZON

STAR ANGEL SOUNDTRACK on AMAZON

In the NO MAN LIKE A SNOW MAN ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY department, the Original Cast Recording of our new musical, THE STAR ANGEL, just went live on Amazon! Check it out! The production will be released everywhere on Nov. 5th.

THE STAR ANGEL Original Cast Recording

This'n'That

This week we'll be recording THE BLACK ARROW by Robert Louis Stevenson. Very excited about this one, as it has always been a favorite story of mine. It will complete our adaptations of RLS stories that started with TREASURE ISLAND, and continued on with KIDNAPPED and DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE.  Newcomers Colin Budzyna and Natalie Vatcher head up a cast of CRT veterans that include J.T. Turner, Joe Caliendo Jr., and Tom Berry. An exciting tale set during the War of the Roses, look for this one to be released late in 2013.

THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW will have it's 8th annual broadcast on Sirius XM Halloween day. Not sure of the time yet. Have you heard this one yet? Jeff wrote an amazing music score, one of my favorites I might add, and I can't think of a better Ichabod Crane than Lincoln Clark.  Some people have commented that the show isn't violent enough, or scary enough ... unfortunately, Tim Burton took a great story and turned it into his own vision (basically just using the title and tossing everything else away), to the point where many of today's listeners think that is how the story goes.   SLEEPY HOLLOW, as written by Washington Irving, instead paints a vivid picture of Autumn in New England and the atmosphere of a town built on legend. Is the Headless Horseman real - or just part of that legend that makes everything a little more magical when the leaves turn to red, orange, purple?  We did the book as written by Irving, not the movie bastardized by Burton .... which is why some younger listeners write to me telling me how I screwed the story up!  No kidding!

POWDER RIVER SEASON 7 is now in the can and awaiting editing, and we have agreed to record an 8th season, which, when completed, will bring our episode count to 120!

Next week we have the premiere at the QP Playhouse for THE STAR ANGEL, and all proceeds we raise will be for the Dana Farber Childrens Cancer Center. The money won't be used for research, but for presents and things to brighten up the ward.  I'm sure I'll have some pictures to post of the event.

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST continues in post production with CRT Producer Bryan Rothrock. It's sounding great so far!  This production is significant to everyone here at CRT as it is the final leading performance by our friend Hugh Metzler, who passed away August 14h. In the role of Lord Canterville, Hugh turned in another gem of a performance with that one of a kind style of his. We will be dedicating this production in his memory when it is released in May of 2013.