Elmer & Verne in: "Bilgewater Downs"

01/05/16 • 59 min

Don't Close Your Eyes: Live Radio Theatre!

Season 2, Episode 4: Elmer & Verne in: "Bilgewater Downs"

Written and Directed by Ryan Cassavaugh

It's time once again for everyone's favorite old-time dreamers: Elmer and Verne! With a little extra money in their bank account (for the first time), Bigfish convinces Elmer that it's time to invest in the Sport of Kings! Verne is not keen, and decides to partner with Mr. Willerby in remodeling the Ityl-Dew Hotel into The Carnegie-Hall-South Palladium Orpheum
Imperial Globe Theater For Acting and Such -- so they decide to split up on get-rich quick schemes! Before you know it, they'll face the wrath of the Appalachian Mafia, headed up by 'Ma' Brodie and her evil sons! It's hectic hillbilly farce that will make you guffaw!

Recorded live in the sweltering outdoors at Bozeman, Montana's Sweet Pea Festival on August 5, 2012! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs and minimal post-production to try to make it comfortable to your ears! In this second season, we had not yet made the decision to have entirely analog effects, instead integrating analog effects supplemented by some digital sound work!

Featured cast: Keith Suta as Elmer Van Fleet and Arthur Gwinett; Ryan Cassavauh as Verne Peabody; Ryan Lawrence Flynn as Mr. Willerby and Bigfish; Sadie Cassavaugh as Ma Brodie and Ms. Godfrey; and Christian McDaniel Rumer Pyle, the Queen of Sheebee, Johnboy, Cobb and the Announcer!

Sound effects by Marya Cline and Wren Goodman!

Music by Chris Donohue!

Season 2, Episode 4: Elmer & Verne in: "Bilgewater Downs"

Written and Directed by Ryan Cassavaugh

Sound effects by Marya Cline and Wren Goodman!

Music by Chris Donohue!

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The Hard-Luck Kid!

Season 2, Episode 3: The Hard-Luck Kid!

A Fairytale of Newark written and directed by Keith Suta!

Manny Midman is the saddest of sad sacks: living in the basement of Our Lady of Blessed Austerity Orphanage, working four jobs, and caring for his deaf and blind terrier Nippers. Manny should be miserable, but isn't -- because he loves boxing. He's terrible at it; but he loves it. When the Mob shows up to buy the orphanage and turn it into a nightclub, it's up to Manny to save the day by entering a boxing tournament -- with the help of an unconventional coach, he learns the real secret to success in boxing is having the saddest life story! Join us as we bring you an underdog story that will shamelessly tug at your heartstrings and deliver plenty of comedic punches!

Featured cast: Michael Garverick as Manny Midman; Kathy Matosich as Lily and the Narrator; Sadie Cassavaugh as Meredith and Petunia; Marya Cline as Sister Mary Benedict Pious Dorotheus; Randy Glynn as Richie and Mr. Bossington; Eben Howard as Earl and John; Christian McDaniel as The Other Other Boss, Clem the Creep, Also-Ran Al, Lenny the Loser, the Champ and Nippers; and Keith Suta as The Other Boss, The Ref and Phil Amari! Sound effects by Marya Cline and Wren Goodman!

Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Equinox Theatre (now known as the Verge Theater) on June 18, 2012! What you hear is what the audience heard that night with no overdubs and minimal post-production to try to make it comfortable to your ears! In this second season, we began to make our move to entirely live sound effects and this episode contains entirely analog sounds!

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1941 was a time of strife, of war and battles, of great deeds and great sacrifices. But not for Betsy McGuyver -- consigned to cleaning pottery shards in the basement of the New York Museum of Antiquities, she loses herself in daydreams of fighting the Axis villains. But it's all just in her head -- until the day adventure arrives in the form of an ancient Egyptian scroll! Soon her life is filled with Nazis, mummies, and a penguin with a cold!

Featured cast: Wren Goodman as Betsy McGuyver; Sadie Cassavaugh as Helga, Lucille, Selma, and Eleanor Roosevelt; Christian McDaniel as Mr. Piltdown, Beakman, Hermann Goering, the son, and The Mummy; and Keith Suta as Mr. Announcer, Hitler, the father, and Billy! Sound effects by Marya Cline and Pol Llovet! Music by Rob Robinson!

Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Equinox Theatre (now known as the Verge Theater) on June 30, 2012! What you hear is what the audience heard that night with no overdubs and minimal post-production to try to make it comfortable to your ears! In this second season, we began to make our move to entirely live sound effects and this episode contains entirely analog sounds!