Episode One: "The Thespian's Revenge"
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Episode One: "The Thespian's Revenge"
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After a lengthy summer hiatus (due to illnesses, an injury sustained to our Announcer, and a move/house renovation for our director and Foley chief), BTV Radio Theatre returns to Vermont Community Access Media to tape our sixth episode of The Gloved Fox, "Jennie Golden and the Bowman." We promise fun projects on the horizon, as we finish this season of the Wily Wonder's exploits and start our adaptation of Frankenstein, airing from Fall to Winter. (Above: Sound designer Andy Kolovos and director Andrew Rash sound check "The Hooded Monk." Photo by Rob Towne) The Gloved Fox! Episode One: The Thespian's Revenge The details of when our first episode will arrive online are still being worked out, but we will air on Vermont Community Access Media Burlington/Essex/Winooski Channel 15 this Saturday, January 12 at 9:30pm, and again on Sunday, January 13 at 2pm! Photo by Lara Keenan.
On the evening of December 28, the BTV Radio Players taped the first episode of Pulp Radio Theatre at VCAM studio in Burlington, VT. The performers looked and sounded great. Technically we made a few stumbles, but such is the way of live theater, and these mishaps prepare us better for when we record the next two episodes at the beginning of February. Overall, I am very happy and pretty impressed with the final product.
Unfortunately, though we currently possess the audio and video files, they are pretty large and we have not been able to upload them easily online. I wanted a January 1st launch date, but it looks like that must be pushed back a couple weeks. It should be posted to YouTube by the middle of the month. Next Wednesday we begin rehearsals for Episode 3 of The Gloved Fox, "Wrath of the Red Rose Wraith," which will also tape in February. It has been a short and crazy road, so far. I had been aching for a creative project that I could undergo, something that would be mine, something that needed ME to kick-start it. Halfway through September of this year, an idea came to me. Vermont Community Access Media (VCAM), our local public access nonprofit organization, is always looking for content to air. Its services, equipment, and studio are available to anyone in the Burlington, VT area willing to create television programs for it. I had done work with VCAM six years ago to adapt the Nightmare Vermont performance DVD to television, so I was somewhat familiar with the equipment and the process.
I had been a big fan of the Intergalactic Nemesis show since seeing it at the Flynn last year. My wife loves experiencing all the behind-the-scenes stuff from movies and television, like Foley work, which is featured in their performances. Well, why not do that, I thought. I can craft a straightforwardly sincere, old school version of that wonderfully fun thing we enjoyed. I just needed an idea for a series. My jumping-off point was The Shadow, a character whose radio program I had been enamored of since childhood. His pulp adventures partly inspired the superhero boom of the 1930s, particularly in the creation of a certain Caped Crusader named Batman. I decided I wanted a female lead, and there were few pulp heroines from that period, so I decided to create my own, based on the Shadow-Batman-Doc Savage-Superman model: Gracie Grant, The Gloved Fox. I have ties that run deep in the Burlington acting community. I ran this idea by a few of my actor friends; the response was mind-shatteringly positive. I had no idea so many of my friends had such a deep love for old time time radio programs! A dozen or so leaped at the chance to be involved in such a project. And so, the BTV Radio Players were born. The staff of VCAM has been immensely supportive, as well, and all who I have spoken to have been pretty excited with this endeavor; it is a little beyond what they are used to seeing. In just one week, on December 28, we tape our first episode. I am very thrilled to be embarking on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy our finished project. |
Andrew
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