Don't Close Your Eyes: Live Radio Theatre! - The Most Splendid Return; or How Divinia von Presterton and Lord Tiberius Q. Braithwaite Saved the World with the Power of Invention!

The Most Splendid Return; or How Divinia von Presterton and Lord Tiberius Q. Braithwaite Saved the World with the Power of Invention!

03/16/16 • 70 min

Don't Close Your Eyes: Live Radio Theatre!

Season 2, Episode 7: The Most Splendid Return; or How Divinia von Preserton and Lord Tiberius Q. Braithwaite Saved the World with the Power of Invention!

A Steampunk Gallimaufry by Keith Suta!

American inventress Divinia von Presterton and English gadabout Lord Tiberius Q. Braithwaite are ready to recommence their airship race around the globe -- Thomas Edison and Henry Ford's army of mechanical automatons lays in ruins and the world is once again at peace. Or is it? Already the villainous plutocrats are ready to hatch their Plan B -- a daring takeover of the British throne with a robotic Queen Victoria and a gigantic mechanical squid! With the help of Annie Oakley, Nikola Tesla, a newly un-zombified Benjamin Franklin, and many more, they will take on a shadowy cabal of immortal evildoers led by an obscure Founding Father, Nostradamus, and a mysteriously poetic woman!

Featuring: Sarah Jackson as Divinia von Presterton; Robert Dalton as Tiberius Q. Braithwaite; Ryan Lawrence Flynn as Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla and Button Gwinnett; Sadie Cassavaugh as Queen Victoria, Carrie Nation, Robot Queen Victoria, Annie Oakley and Emily Dickinson; Christian McDaniel as Henry Ford, The Lord High Steward, Preston von Presterton, and a Giant Squid; and Keith Suta as The Bailiff, Nostradamus, and Thomas Edison! Sound Effects by Marya Cline and Wren Goodman! Music by Rob Robinson!

Season 2, Episode 7: The Most Splendid Return; or How Divinia von Preserton and Lord Tiberius Q. Braithwaite Saved the World with the Power of Invention!

A Steampunk Gallimaufry by Keith Suta!

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Mystico the Magnificent Mentalist!

Season 2, Episode 8: Mystico the Magnificent Mentalist!

Written and Directed by Ryan Cassavaugh!

Garvman Goodrick is a circus illusionist and mentalist, who gets caught up with globe-trotting adventurer Rosemary Darwin and a mystical idol and discovers his supernatural abilities to become Mystico the Magnificent Mentalist! Joined by his circus friends, they must face the mysterious evil of The Boman Kahn! Ancient gods will awaken, soup will be sold, and eerie adventure will be had!

Featured cast: Ben Sevilla as Garvman Goodrick; Sadie Cassavaugh as Rosemary Darwin and Mme. Blavatsky; Ryan Lawrence Flynn as Doc, Vladimir, and Archimedes Darwin; Marya Cline as Athena the Strongest Woman in the World; Keith Suta as Roger, Mr. Gregor, Thomas Jefferson, and the Button Soups Commercial Man; Wren Goodman as Gladys the Volunteer and the Button Soups Commercial Woman; Ryan Cassavaugh as the Narrator and Button Gwinett; and Christian McDanlel as Sven the Goon, the Barker, the Banker, Announcer, George Washington and the Cow! Sound effects by Marya Cline and Wren Goodman! Music by The Fleet Street Klezmer Band!

Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Equinox Theatre (now known as the Verge Theater) on July 21, 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 digital effects supplemented by analog sounds!

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Season 2, Episode 9: The Road to Easter Island!

A Not-So Musical Comedy Written and Directed by Ryan Cassavaugh and Keith Suta!

Join us for our victory lap as we celebrate the successful end of our second season! Ryan and Keith collaborated together to create the story of Keith and Ryan, the least-successful soup salesmen in the United States -- as they embark on their globe-trotting, last-ditch effort to save their jobs! Along the way, they'll encounter angry bosses, an evil mad scientist, an island of theatrical women, the somewhat overweight plutocrat Higgs Boson, irate theatrical critics, adventure, a thousand laughs, songs, and love!

Featured cast: Keith Suta, Ryan Cassavaugh, Sadie Cassavaugh, Sarah Jackson, Ryan Lawrence Flynn, Marya Cline, Wren Goodman, and Christian McDaniel! Sound effects and music by Wren Goodman and Marya Cline!

Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Equinox Theatre (now known as the Verge Theater) on July 28, 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 a scant few digital effects with overwhelmingly analog sounds!