Some updates

Busy as usual around here. Our 24 episode series TICONDEROGA is back in full swing. We have wrapped up the first six episodes of another new series, JARREM LEE - GHOST HUNTER, which will start a Sirius/XM run on Friday Oct. 24th and run for six consecutive weeks. The final 6 episodes will air late spring after TICONDEROGA completes it's first run.

Speaking of TICONDEROGA, we are hoping to have the CD Release premier at the actual Fort as a fundraiser. Most of the lead cast will attend. More on this as things develope.

BUCK ALICE AND THE ACTOR ROBOT, our production based on the novel by, and starring Walter Koenig of Star Trek fame is also in full swing and sounding great! This is going to be a fun show and I think Walters fans will love it. In the hands of MJ Cogburn, we plan on having it ready to go in early 2010, to coincide with the re-release of the novel.

THE PERRY MASON RADIO DRAMAS are proving popular and we are looking forward to continuing the series through 2010. M.J. Elliott is doing a wonderful job dramatizing the original books into feature length radio plays!

We are also going to be having a new look, as we are designing a new logo for CRT. Our original logo has served us well all these years, but as we begin our 15th year in 2010, we thought it was time for a new look and time to retire the old cathedral radio.

Finally, POWDER RIVER will begin a weekly run on a new internet radio station called Twilight Audio Theater. I think it starts this week (possibly today), but not certain. Two episodes will play back to back, and it all starts with Season 1 from 2004 and "The Preacher" and "A Tangled Rope." Here's the link in case you wish to tune in; I am sure the show times will be listed soon.

LIVE - 365

That's all for now! ~JR

ZORRO AND THE PIRATE RAIDERS RELEASE ON LULU

We have released ZORRO AND THE PIRATE RAIDERS for downloads on Lulu.Com. The show will eventually be available on CD's and also on Audible.Com, but this is where CRT likes to launch new titles as special "sneak previews" before they are released on a larger scale. Here is a link: ZORRO AND THE PIRATE RAIDERS

(Photo courtesy of ZPI, Inc.)

NEW SHOW ANNOUNCED FOR 2010

I am VERY happy to tell you that we are planning our second collaboration with playwright William Luce! "Caruso!" will record in May and June of 2010, under the direction of Nancy Curran Willis. The show opened on stage with the title "Bravo, Caruso!" but I think Mr. L mentioned he may want to revise the title; but too soon for that now. He will be revising his original stage script for audio, and Jeffrey Gage will be scoring the show - which will involve some opera! No cast announcement yet, but I can tell you that I will NOT be playing Caruso - oh, if you only heard my Italian accent. A very exciting project. We are hoping for a December 2010 release.

NEW ZORRO WEBSITE!

We have created a new website for our upcoming production of ZORRO AND THE PIRATE RAIDERS! You can visit it HERE.

The site contains cast and crew bios, as well as a trailer for the show.

Getting ready for Season 5 on the air!

We start our 5th Season on Sirius / XM Radio with new programs starting on Fri. Sept. 11th. New shows will be running on Fridays, with Mon-Thurs. airing encores of past programs. I just shipped the first six weeks, and we will have new programs running weekly thru June of 2010. Somewhere in the schedule we will run Season 5 of POWDER RIVER, which will run Mon-Thurs; so folks won't have to wait each week for new episodes. No date on that yet; some contractual projects put Britt and Company on the back burner, but we'll get them done, don't worry about that.
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Most important - a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY Shout out to my friend Fess Parker! I'm gonna watch a couple of Daniel Boone episodes tonight and raise a glass of the good stuff for a toast :)

Some new stuff!

Our new audio book division of CRT, called Wavern Audio, is just about finished with our very first release, THE BOOK OF NONSENSE, by David Michael Slater and read by J.T. Turner - in a nutshell:
The book is ancient, ravaged and full of utter nonsense. But the moment it enters Daphna and Dexter's lives, bizarre things begin to happen. Why is their father, who found the book, suddenly so distant? Is the old man who took it from him some kind of hypnotist? Why is a giant, red-eyed boy menancing them? And what does their thirteenth birthday have to do with all this? Daphna and Dexter can't stand each other, but they'll have to work together to learn the truth about the Book of Nonsense - before their lives come apart completely.

This is the first in a series of several books and we are very excited about producing them.

Also, we have begun recording our second book, LORENZO AND THE PIRATE, by authors by Rick and Lila Guzman. This is the latest in a series of books that follow Lorenzo Bannister through the American Revolutionary War. Read by Anastas Varinos, the book will be released on Sept. 22, and we hope to have the audio version ready at the same time.

Both of these titles will also lead off our brand new series on Sirius / XM Radio this September, airing on Saturdays with a time to be announced soon. This new series will consist only of our new audio book productions and is designed for kids in the 9-16 range (Our normal show will still be airing in our regular time slots). Of course, I'll be posting updates right here as soon as I get them.

ZORRO COMPLETED

Today we finished production on ZORRO AND THE PIRATE RAIDERS, ironically on the 90th Anniversary of the publication of the first book Zorro appeared in, The Curse of Capistrano." Running time came in at 163 minutes.

NEW ON AUDIBLE!

New CRT titles just released onto Audible.Com

MOONFLEET

POWDER RIVER And The MOUNTAIN OF GOLD

A VISIT WITH AESOP

THE BLOCKADE RUNNERS

PERRY MASON AND SPOKEN NETWORK

You probably will not be seeing PERRY MASON AND THE CASE OF THE HOWLING DOG on the Spoken Network download site. We have been with them since their beginning, but lately I have had trouble uploading new shows with the system either freezing or just not responding - usually after you have already spent 20 minutes inputting information. I've tried to get HOWLING DOG up and running for a week, and I'm not spending anymore time with it; so at this point, Lulu.Com is the best bet to download our new releases before they appear on CD.

NEW PERRY MASON ON JULY 24TH

On July 24th we will release our third PERRY MASON Radio Drama, THE CASE OF THE HOWLING DOG. Arthur Cartwright, an anxious man, goes to Perry Mason to have his neighbor arrested for his vindictive and noisy dog. He is under the belief that his howling is an indication that somebody has been murdered in the neighborhood. He demands that his will be written bequeathing the estate to the lady living at the neighbor's house. However, the will is mysteriously altered by an unknown person and Cartwright goes missing, along with the lady. It is up to Mason to investigate. The production will be released on Lulu.Com, and the following week on Spoken Network, followed in just a few weeks on Audible.Com (along with the two previous releases, THE CASE OF THE VELVET CLAWS and THE CASE OF THE SULKY GIRL.

Updates

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Seth is closing in on ZORRO AND THE PIRATE RAIDERS! We are scheduled to finish and ship the production to Zorro Productions in CA the week of Aug. 10th, and so far we are on track! We may present this program on our Sirius/XM show to kick off the fall season, but nothing set in stone yet. Watch this space for more info!

TICONDEROGA is what some around here are calling POWDER RIVER with muskets! Seth was taken off post production on this series to complete ZORRO, but he will soon be returning to finish post. It's a good one, folks! We're debating continuing the series with Season 2.