PMRP at First Night

What are you doing for New Year's Eve?

The Post-Meridian Radio Players will be performing as part of First Night at the Orpheum!

Come see radio drama performed the way it was back in the 1930's, 40's & 50's. Actors at microphones, live sound effects artists, and recorded audio effects will transport the audience from the cockpit of a heroic Do-Gooder's futuristic spaceship to the panic-sticken streets of a city doomed by science-gone-wrong!

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Foley demo at 6:45pm, show from 7:30-9:00pm

The Orpheum Theatre
1 Hamilton Place (near the Park St T)
Boston, MA 02108

TICKETS
"Countdown to Chaos!" is part of First Night 2009 and admission is open to anyone wearing a First Night 2009 button. Buttons are $18 and can be purchased at any of a number of retail outlets throughout Eastern Massachusetts. Locations in Davis Square include the Au Bon Pain, Davis Sq Store 24 (which is actually now a Tedeschi's), and Star Market.

HANDS-ON FOLEY DEMO: Starting at 6:45, children of all ages (and yes, that includes you if you want it to!) are invited to come make some noise. We will be performing a comic re-telling of The Three Little Pigs, with volunteers making the sound effects.

The official show begins at 7:30 with:
Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder in "Countdown to Chaos!"
The PMRP bring to the stage their acclaimed original sci-fi comedy adventure program. This sendup of the pulp sci-fi serials of the 1930s and 40s features Red Shift, a licensed Do-Gooder for hire, and his faithful friend and mechanic Lumpy. In "Countdown to Chaos!", the villainous Lord Draith forces the duo to crash-land on the forbidden planet of Earth. Their ship attracts the attention of the world-renowned scientist Dr. Alberts and snoopy Penny Parker, Girl Reporter, who find themselves trapped inside the rocket when calamity comes to call. Can Red and Lumpy escape from the primitive planet, or will human technology be their doom? Are Penny and Doc destined for a sudden trip into outer space, or will they get the chance to pack first? The amazing adventures begin here!

Followed by:
Arch Oboler's "Chicken Heart"
The infamous "lost" episode of the seminal horror series Lights Out!, originally broadcast in 1937, and immortalized decades later by Bill Cosby in one of his most famous routines. In the play, a research scientist and a science reporter for a big city newspaper are witness to inconceivable events when a laboratory accident causes a specially-treated chicken's heart to grow uncontrollably. While officials treat the scientist's demands for action with skepticism and delay, hapless citizens are consumed by the ever-expanding mass and the deadly heart continues to grow... and grow... and grow...

I'll be helping run the Foley demo, performing as the narrator for Red Shift, and doing foley for Chicken Heart, so if you're in the area, come on by!

PMRP at First Night

What are you doing for New Year's Eve?

The Post-Meridian Radio Players will be performing as part of First Night at the Orpheum!

Come see radio drama performed the way it was back in the 1930's, 40's & 50's. Actors at microphones, live sound effects artists, and recorded audio effects will transport the audience from the cockpit of a heroic Do-Gooder's futuristic spaceship to the panic-sticken streets of a city doomed by science-gone-wrong!

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Foley demo at 6:45pm, show from 7:30-9:00pm

The Orpheum Theatre
1 Hamilton Place (near the Park St T)
Boston, MA 02108

TICKETS
"Countdown to Chaos!" is part of First Night 2009 and admission is open to anyone wearing a First Night 2009 button. Buttons are $18 and can be purchased at any of a number of retail outlets throughout Eastern Massachusetts. Locations in Davis Square include the Au Bon Pain, Davis Sq Store 24 (which is actually now a Tedeschi's), and Star Market.

HANDS-ON FOLEY DEMO: Starting at 6:45, children of all ages (and yes, that includes you if you want it to!) are invited to come make some noise. We will be performing a comic re-telling of The Three Little Pigs, with volunteers making the sound effects.

The official show begins at 7:30 with:
Red Shift: Interplanetary Do-Gooder in "Countdown to Chaos!"
The PMRP bring to the stage their acclaimed original sci-fi comedy adventure program. This sendup of the pulp sci-fi serials of the 1930s and 40s features Red Shift, a licensed Do-Gooder for hire, and his faithful friend and mechanic Lumpy. In "Countdown to Chaos!", the villainous Lord Draith forces the duo to crash-land on the forbidden planet of Earth. Their ship attracts the attention of the world-renowned scientist Dr. Alberts and snoopy Penny Parker, Girl Reporter, who find themselves trapped inside the rocket when calamity comes to call. Can Red and Lumpy escape from the primitive planet, or will human technology be their doom? Are Penny and Doc destined for a sudden trip into outer space, or will they get the chance to pack first? The amazing adventures begin here!

Followed by:
Arch Oboler's "Chicken Heart"
The infamous "lost" episode of the seminal horror series Lights Out!, originally broadcast in 1937, and immortalized decades later by Bill Cosby in one of his most famous routines. In the play, a research scientist and a science reporter for a big city newspaper are witness to inconceivable events when a laboratory accident causes a specially-treated chicken's heart to grow uncontrollably. While officials treat the scientist's demands for action with skepticism and delay, hapless citizens are consumed by the ever-expanding mass and the deadly heart continues to grow... and grow... and grow...

I'll be helping run the Foley demo, performing as the narrator for Red Shift, and doing foley for Chicken Heart, so if you're in the area, come on by!