This is the second installment of a five-part series on the production of a single Mr|Tots show from start to finished. Part one - writing - was posted on July 5, 2008. Parts three through five (music, casting, performance) will be posted over the next month and a half.
Continuing from our last installment, wherein I discussed the process of adapting Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep into a radio drama, I would like to now guide you through the editing process, in which the rough script is combed over and prepared for air. Although occasionally painful, this is a necessary step in the production of a good piece of radio theater.
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This is the first installment of a five-part series on the production of a single Mr|Tots show from start to finished. Parts two through five (editing, music, casting, performance) will be posted over the next two-plus months.
While most of you have probably heard a Mr|Tots production through a live broadcast or a podcast, many might be unaware of the amount of work that goes into each episode of our show. Although we originally chose our projects not one week before they were performed, we now plan sometimes months in advance in order to accommodate our growing cast and take advantage of our increasingly sophisticated resources. The summer months are a valuable time for the Mr|Tots crew, since they offer the chance to prepare for the next batch of shows without the pressure of the Middlebury academic schedule. For the first part of The Making of a Mr|Tots Broadcast, we’ll be examining the process of conceiving of and writing an episode of The Middlebury Radio Theater of Thrills and Suspense. The episode in question: our upcoming production of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep. As this is an adaptation of a preexisting work, there are differences from the process used for an original piece, but the principles are the same.
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Updated: Included the last episode “The Shadow of a Doubt”
It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that only one more adventure with Skip Murphy and Duke Fowler is planned. Alas, only one more run in with the “original Weimar baby”. Only one more ’speech’ by Winifred.
For you listening pleasure, episodes 1-5 (two is one of our “lost” episodes).
Continue reading ‘Nazi Hunters: The End of an Era’
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