A NEW THUNDER AND SAHARAH!

A Powder River fan sent me this photo of her cats! They are a father and son, and were adopted a few years ago. They named them after Thunder and Saharah - Chad and Britt's horses in POWDER RIVER (they were going to name them Britt and Chad, but her sons thought the others were more exciting!). This is the first time someone has named a pet after a POWDER RIVER character, and I think it's cool! Thanks so much, Michele for sending the photo! Made my day!

HEY CRT FANS!

Things are really in a whirlwind here - which is good! We continue with our summer recording schedule, heavier than usual, and getting the job done. We are very excited to announce a new series - VINCENT PRICE PRESENTS.
In celebration of his 100th birthday in 2011, we are producing this series with Bluewater Productions, based on their line of comics.
One of classic Hollywood's most famous scary men, Vincent Price made a name for himself in classic mysteries and thrillers throughout the 1940's, 50's and 60's. We will produce 30 half hour episodes. The series will feature audio dramatizations of some of Prices’s films as well as developing new frightening ones with his estate. Welcome back to the macabre world of Vincent Price!

FINAL SHOW OF THE SEASON

All you Sirius/XM Subscribers - DON'T MISS THE FINAL "FIRST RUN FRIDAY" episode of the season on our Sirius/XM show today at 12pm (Eastern). Our 5th season finishes off with JARREM LEE - GHOST HUNTER - The Last Stand! This year we brought 47 new half hour programs to the air! JERRY AND THE PIRATES begins a summer run Mon-Fri. starting July 5th, and ...we'll be back with new shows with our 6th Season premier on SEPT. 23!

GETTYSBURG MINI-SERIES THIS WEEKEND

To commemorate the 147th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, SIRIUS/XM Book Radio will present CRT's 1999 mini-series, GETTYSBURG.
"This is a high quality, digitally recorded production features top-notch actors and music... a great selection for Civil War buffs... and students." - Elaine Hanson - BOOKLIST.

" The sound effects are good, the narration clear and crisp, the various voices even better ...an endless spectacle of blood and dust and insects and carnage. That's what the war itself was like, of course. Here are the fatigue, the despair, the pain, the screams, the deafening cannon plowing through human ranks, death, and dismemberment. Sometimes the politicians are heard. More often the generals and officers and foot soldiers. One would swear that a newspaper reporter with cassette recorder in hand was dashing around the battlefield in the thick of it" - AudioFile

In the tradition of classic radio plays, with a full cast, music and sound effects. The Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air is proud to present this spectacular three part production - "Gettysburg." Highly detailed and accurate, you will find yourself in the middle of General Buford's skirmish line, Little Round Top.The Wheatfield, Pickett's Charge, and listen while President Lincoln delivers his address some four months later. No matter which side you are loyal to... "Gettysburg" will have your heart pounding with its action, adventure and suspense.

SAT. JULY 3 at 8pm - "Good Ground"
SUN. JULY 4 at 4pm - " SEA OF ANGUISH"
MON. JULY 5 at 8pm - " ARMY OF THE LIVING GOD"

All times Eastern. Sirius Ch. 117 / XM Ch. 163

GET READY TO RUN .........

COOL NEWS! CRT will have the honor of bringing William F. Nolan's LOGAN'S RUN - LAST DAY - to audio! Based on the classic book by Mr. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, we are very excited to get the chance to bring this incredible story to life with a full cast, full music score, and a couple of hundred thousand sound effects!

LOGAN'S RUN - FINAL DAY depicts a dystopic ageist future society in which both population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by requiring the death of everyone reaching a particular age. The story follows the actions of Logan, a Sandman charged with enforcing the rule, as he tracks down and kills citizens who "run" from society's lethal demand — only to end up "running" himself.

CRT will produce the show in association with Bluewater Productions.

Congrats to our Publisher!

Congratulations are in order for our publisher, BRILLIANCE AUDIO for being named Business of the Year, in their home town of Grand Haven.

a little update

Working on THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES script this weekend. Need to get it to Ray for approval in July, and then hopefully we can record in August and have it out on time. MJ has finished editing on THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, which now awaits music. Jim and Seth continue editing on BUCK ALICE AND THE ACTOR-ROBOT, and we are getting close to completion. Lots of other projects in the works that we can't announce yet; but we will be announcing a big one within a couple of weeks. Stay tuned!

A Thursday Update!

Had a good meeting with Brilliance yesterday, mapping out how to go about digging into our catalog of 300 plus titles :) 300! No wonder I have dark circles under my eyes!
Today I have a 3:30pm recording session for LORENZO AND THE PIRATE, and then working on a Powder River script.
Some amazing things on the horizon that I can't wait to tell you about! A new 36 episode series is barreling down the pike right at ya, and it's like nothing we have ever done before! We start recording on July 24th and have a air date premier of Nov.6th on Sirius/XM (yep, the show will be broadcast on weekends, outside our normal time slot).
Exciting!

RANDOM THOUGHTS:

Saw the schedule for the CAPE COD MELODY TENT in Hyannis. I must be getting old because I only knew about four of the "stars" playing there this summer. The days of Liberace, Bob Hope, Robert Goulet, Rosemary Clooney, Martha Ray, Angela Lansbury, Victor Borge performing on that stage are long gone; behold the era of foul mouthed stand up.

JAWS is still an amazing movie to behold. Can't wait till it's on Blu-Ray. Is it??

The MGM lion at the start of a movie still has the most class of any movie logo, but the triumphant trumpets of 20th Century Fox really get the blood going and screams out HOLLYWOOD!

I think Colonial Radio needs to do the 6th L.Frank Baum OZ book as a radio drama.

Am I the only person who did not like AVATAR?

JARREM LEE and such

We had a GREAT recording session on Monday for JARREM LEE - GHOST HUNTER, completing two new episodes. There will be 24 episodes in all. Joe Caliendo Jr. has taken on the role of Arthur Bennett, due to Jeremy Benson who needed to bow out since he will be playing the title role in the Scottish Play! Joe first recorded with CRT back in 1997 with THE STORM BREEDER, followed quickly by our Dickens Holiday offering for that year, THE SEVEN POOR TRAVELLERS. Nice to have Joe back behind the CRT microphones. We have aired the first 12 episodes on our show, and we're recording / editing the final batch now. Bryan Rothrock is doing a fantastic job on this series.

MJ continues to edit on THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, which will be broadcast as a special on Sirius/XM Radio on Thanksgiving Day. I think the CD release will be in the spring of 2011. So far 75 minutes has been edited; I'm taking a guess and predicting a final cut of 100min. Let's see if I'm right!

OH - and a note on the posters on this site; these are temporary ones that I create just to get the buzz going. Our publishers art department will produce the actual cover art for the CD's - so don't worry, they will look a bit more slick in the end :)

That's all for now,
cheers from Boston.

NEW PODCAST

New COLONIAL RADIO TALK podcast, with Deniz Cordell. Deniz plays Clay Tucker in the POWDER RIVER series, and also starred in CRT's 2005 production KIDNAPPED. He is currently writing a new series which will premier this fall, and is composing the score to THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, scheduled for broadcast on Thanksgiving Day.

NEW PODCAST

Check out the newest CRT TALK podcast, with guest Anastas Varinos (Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Halloween Tree, The Prince and the Pauper, Treasure Island).