Twitter

Thought I would give it a try. I am @JerryCRT if anyone is twitting around out there. I'm still not sure how it all works, or if anyone can see what I am twitting about, but I'm out there somewhere I hope.

MEET THE NEW CRT LOGO!

After a 15 year run, we are retiring our original logo of the old radio surrounded by our name. That design was by Marks dad, Herman Vanderberg and served us well for many years. For the next 15 years or so, we have had a new logo created by Roger Knox Design in Austin, Texas. Here it is!

New programs

I haven't really been neglecting my blog these last few weeks; but I haven't been feeling all that well, so the time spent on the computer has been for reviewing new scenes and sending out notes; some writing, and general back and forth biz emails.

We have just two more JARREM LEE's to record before finishing the series; those will be in early November. I'm trying to secure a recording date for three shorts we are producing, called FREAKY FAIRY TALES, and they are written by our own Anastas Varinos, who, at 16 years of age, pens a very funny script! All the actors will be played by the CRT Radio kids, so these should be a lot of fun. They will be used as fillers on our on-air radio show, and will also be available as downloads.

We will soon have some very exciting release information on our production of ZORRO AND THE PIRATE RAIDERS, which, up until now has only been available at our Lulu.Com store, but just wait!! We have some great PERRY MASON and ZORRO news coming very soon!

And it's October - my favorite month of the year. I think the story that best depicts the autumn season in New England is Washington Irving's THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. More of a homage to the season than a horror tale, we produced the story in 2005, won the Gold Ogle Award for it, and happily is broadcast somewhere every Halloween season. This will be it's 5th Halloween, and will be aired on several stations, as well as Sirius/XM. I'll let you know the schedule here as soon as I know it myself.

We have a few other titles suited for the Halloween season, and maybe you'll check some of them out (And remember, many of our titles are in your local libraries as digital download books from your libraries website - check with your library!); also at this time of year, you may want to try two programs we did with the great Ray Bradbury - SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES and THE HALLOWEEN TREE - both award winners, and SWTWC has a script written by Mr. B. himself!

JARREM LEE makes his bow in just a couple of weeks when the series premiers on Sirius/XM. We'll also be releasing episodes on Lulu once it airs.

That's all for now. More later I am sure. Hope you keep listening!
cheers

RAY BRADBURY on COLONIAL RADIO THEATER

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow


Ray Bradbury's THE HALLOWEEN TREE

Ray Bradbury's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

Updates

What a crazy month it has been. There are lots of things going on at CRT that we STILL cannot mention - but soon! Very soon. Our Sirius/XM show is doing great! We started our 5th Season September 11th, and we are running new episodes every Friday from now till next June! The Mon-Thur. slot will be filled with encores and there are more specials coming as well.
Starting October 23rd, our new series JARREM LEE - GHOST HUNTER will have it's world premier. A mixture of Sherlock Holmes and monsters, it's a fun series created by Gareth Tilley in England. We are producing 12 episodes. The first six play Fridays thru Nov. 27th, and will be released as downloads after they air.

Also "new" in October, will be our 1997 production THE STORM BREEDER. This was produced as part of our "Candlelight Tales" from our early days. I don't think this has been broadcast before; but here is a newly edited version that I think listeners will like. This will air Oct. 27th.

Airing Oct. 28th will be DIBBLE'S SLEEPY HOLLOW. This was cut from our 2003 special "Dibble's Halloween Spooktacular." We have made a half hour show from Dibble's skit "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," which was the focal point of the special.

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.