SUNDAY, June 30th @1:30pm: Even More SUNDAY with DAMON RUNYON

We conclude this special Sunday afternoon Tea Time series David Abbot, Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell & Caledonia Skytower presenting stories from the Runyonesque Canon at "Get Lost In Stories" - Seanchai Library's showcase contribution at SL21B.

While the musical Guys & Dolls is based on the short story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown," it is common for derivative works based on an author's canon to pull from more than one piece even when the backbone of the plot is drawn from a single story. This is especially true of canons that are primarily short fiction, like Damon Runyon's. Both of today's stories contain lore and characters than were woven into the legendary musical production.

TODAY: Blood Pressure, and A Piece of Pie, live on stream at SL21B. 

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SUNDAY, June 23rd at 1:30pm: MORE "Sunday with Damon Runyon:

We continue this special Sunday afternoon Tea Time series David Abbot, Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell & Caledonia Skytower present stories from the Runyonesque Canon . . . this time at SLB!

Author Damon Runyon's distinctive vernacular style is known as Runyonese: a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in the present tense, and always devoid of contractions.

TODAY: Broadway Financier, and The Three Wise Guys, live on stream at SL21B. 

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SUNDAY, June 16th @ 1:30pm: Sunday with Damon Runyon

Alfred Damon Runyon was an American journalist and short-story writer best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from Brooklyn or Midtown Manhattan.

The adjective Runyonesque refers to this type of character and the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicts. He spun humorous and sentimental tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit", "Benny Southstreet", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", or "The Seldom Seen Kid".

His distinctive vernacular style is known as Runyonese: a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in the present tense, and always devoid of contractions.

In a special Sunday afternoon Tea Time series David Abbot, Corwyn Allen, Kayden Oconnell & Caledonia Skytower present stories from the Runyonesque Canon.

TODAY: The Bloodhounds of Broadway, and A Very Honorable Guy, live on stream in the Fireside Room.

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THURSDAY, June 22nd @ 7pm: JUNE SHORTS Continues - Johnson

We've read a lot of early 20th and 19th C stories so far. Now we present something a little more contemporary: detective fiction  author Craig Johnson.

TONIGHT: "Messenger: A Walt Longmire Story"

Sheriff Walt Longmire, his long-time friend Henry Standing Bear, and his undersheriff Victoria Moretti are returning from a fishing trip in the Bighorn Mountains when Walt receives a distress call from Crazy Woman Canyon. Forest service ranger Chuck Coon is in trouble. Walt, the Bear, and Vic arrive to find Coon and a young woman up a tree, so to speak. The unlikley duo are fending off three very real bears from the top of a Porta Potty and tell a mystifying story of another dangerous creature inside the “convenience.” When Walt, Henry, and Vic face the creature what they find may be a Messenger from the Camp of the Dead, with a very personal tie to Walt himself.

Kayden Oconnell & Caledonia Skytower in Voice at The Firecircle.

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THIS WEEK (6.19-22) June Shorts Continues

More Stories!  This week featuring short works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Saki (HH Munro), Ursula K Le Guin, and contemporary crime fiction author Craig Johnson. Finn Zeddmore, Caledonia Skytower, and Kayden Oconnell present these adventures, live!

We'll provide the lemonade and some "picnic-ables." Join us fireside!

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MONDAY, June 5th @ 7pm: JUNE SHORTS ~ Roald Dahl at War

Roald Dahl was a British popular author of children's literature and short stories, a poet, and wartime fighter ace. He rose to prominence as a writer in the 1940s with works for children and for adults, and he became one of the world's best-selling authors. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. Dahl has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".                                                                                                                                                    Dahl's short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children's books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters.

Tonight Kayden and Caledonia share a different side of Dahl from the popular author of "James & The Giant Peach" and the Wonka books. In the short stories "Shot Down Over Libya" and "Beware of the Dog" Dahl explores the World War II experience. 

Learn more ab out this author at https://roalddahl.com/

Tonight's session will be in SL Voice at the Firecircle.

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SUNDAY, December 26th at 1:30pm: TEATIME Holiday Radio Classics continues

 The Tea Time Crew continues their holiday classics series from the Golden Age of Radio 

THIS WEEK: "It's a Wonderful Life" featuring Corwyn Allen, Gloriana Maertens, Elrik Merlin, Kayden Oconnell,  and Caledonia Skytower, Live on stream.

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. It's the story of George Bailey, a man who has given up his personal dreams in order to help others in his community, and whose thoughts of suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody. Clarence shows George how he has touched the lives of others and how different life would be for his wife Mary and his community of Bedford Falls if he had not been born.

The radio drama is based on the 1946 film, considered one of the greatest films of all time. It was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and has been recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films ever made.

At a Seanchai Winter Holiday . . . . 

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THURSDAY, December 23rd at 7pm: The Night Before, The Night Before

It's the return of a Seanchai tradition with Kayden Oconnell, Aoife Lorefield, and Caledonia Skytower including: O'Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," Dylan Thomas' "A Child's Christmas in Wales," and "A Visit from St. Nicholas."

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

Live on stream from A Seanchai Winter Holiday, 

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SUNDAY, August 15th at 1:30pm: TEATIME at The Movies Concludes

TEATIME at The Movies concludes today, our fun summer series were we read from the Lux Radio library, adapting great films of the 20th C

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TODAY: The Thin Man

The Thin Man is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy-mystery directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. The film stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a leisure-class couple who enjoy copious drinking and flirtatious banter. Nick is a retired police detective who left his very successful career when he married Nora, a wealthy heiress accustomed to high society. Their wire-haired fox terrier Asta was played by canine actor Skippy. In 1997, the film was added to the United States National Film Registry having been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

Script and sound preparation by Corwyn Allen. Sound effects and technical support by Elrik Merlin.

Join our cast of readers for a backyard festival of radio drama versions of some of the finest and most beloved films of the golden age of 20th C cinema. Popcorn provided.  Presented live, on Stream.

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SUNDAY, August 8th at 1:30pm: TEATIME at The Movies, continues

TEATIME at The Movies continues today, our fun summer series were we read from the Lux Radio library, adapting great films of the 20th C

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TODAY: The 39 Steps

Today's radio adaptation was based on the 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. It is very loosely based on the 1915 adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. It concerns an everyman civilian in London, Richard Hannay, who becomes caught up in preventing an organization of spies called "The 39 Steps" from stealing British military secrets. After being mistakenly accused of the murder of a counter-espionage agent, Hannay goes on the run to Scotland and becomes tangled up with an attractive woman while hoping to stop the spy ring and clear his name.

CAST:

• Announcer, and various – Elrik Merlin
• Richard Hannay – Kayden Oconnell
• Annabella Smith, and various – Gloriana Maertens
• Mr Memory, The Professor, and various - Da5id Abbot
• Various, and various – Corwyn Allen
• Pamela Stuart – Caledonia Skytower

Script and sound preparation by Corwyn Allen. Sound effects and technical support by Elrik Merlin.

Join our cast of readers for a backyard festival of radio drama versions of some of the finest and most beloved films of the golden age of 20th C cinema. Popcorn provided.  Presented live, on Stream.

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ONE MORE Episodes left in this series. Next week, The Thin Man.

 

SUNDAY, August 1st at 1:30pm: "TEA TIME at The Movies" Continues

TEATIME at The Movies continues today, our fun summer series were we read from the Lux Radio library, adapting great films of the 20th C

TODAY: The Maltese Falcon 

"Spade has no original. He is a dream man in the sense that he is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been, and, in their cockier moments, thought they approached."     ~ Dashiell Hammett

The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir written and directed by John Huston in his directorial debut, based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett, and indebted to the 1931 movie of the same name. The story follows a San Francisco private detective and his dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers, all of whom are competing to obtain a jewel-encrusted falcon statuette.

CAST:

• Announcer – Elrik Merlin
• Samuel Spade – Kayden Oconnell
• Effie Perine – Gloriana Maertens
• Lieutenant Dundy - Da5id Abbot
• Detective Tom Polhaus – Corwyn Allen
• Miles Archer – Corwyn Allen
• Ruth Wonderly/Brigid O'Shaughnessy – Caledonia Skytower
• Kasper Gutman – Corwyn Allen
• Joel Cairo – Da5id Abbot
• Wilmer Cook – Da5id Abbot
• District Attorney Bryan – Corwyn Allen
• Captain Jacoby – Corwyn Allen

Script and sound preparation by Corwyn Allen. Sound effects and technical support by Elrik Merlin.

Join our cast of readers for a backyard festival of radio drama versions of some of the finest and most beloved films of the golden age of 20th C cinema. Popcorn provided.  Presented live, on Stream.

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SUNDAY, July 25th at 1:30pm: "TEA TIME at The Movies" Continues

TEATIME at The Movies continues today, our fun summer series  were we read from the library of Lux Radio adaptations of great films of the 20th C

TODAY: The Philadelphia Story  (Note: Today's session will last approximately 1:20)

The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, and Ruth Hussey. Based on the 1939 Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry, the film is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a tabloid magazine journalist. The socialite character of the play—performed by Hepburn in the film—was inspired by Helen Hope Montgomery Scott (1904–1995), a Philadelphia socialite known for her hijinks, who married a friend of playwright Barry.

Nominated for six Academy Awards, the film won two: James Stewart for Best Actor, and Donald Ogden Stewart for Best Adapted Screenplay. MGM remade the film in 1956 as a musical, retitled High Society, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra.

The Philadelphia Story was produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1995.

Join Corwyn Allen, Gloriana Maertens, Caledonia Skytower, Kayden Oconnell, Da5id Abbott & Elrik Merlin for a backyard festival of radio drama versions of some of the finest and most beloved films of the golden age of 20th C cinema. Popcorn provided.

Presented live, on Stream.

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SUNDAY, July 18th at 1:30pm: TEATIME at The Movies, Continues

TEATIME at The Movies continues today, our fun summer series  were we read from the library of Lux Radio adaptations of great films of the 20th C

TODAY: "All About Eve"  

All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It was based on the 1946 short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr, although screen credit was not given for this.

The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star. Anne Baxter plays Eve Harrington, an ambitious young fan who maneuvers herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career and her personal relationships. The film co-stars George Sanders, Celeste Holm, and features Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe in one of her earliest roles, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates and Walter Hampden.

Praised by critics at the time of its release, All About Eve received a record 14 Academy Award nominations and won six, including Best Picture. All About Eve is the only film in Oscar history to receive four female acting nominations (Davis and Baxter as Best Actress, Holm and Ritter as Best Supporting Actress). Widely considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, All About Eve was one of the first 50 films selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". All About Eve was ranked sixteenth on AFI's 1998 list of the 100 best American films.

Join Corwyn Allen, Gloriana Maertens, Caledonia Skytower, Kayden Oconnell & Elrik Merlin for a backyard festival of radio drama versions of some of the finest and most beloved films of the golden age of 20th C cinema. Popcorn provided.

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SUNDAY, June 11th at 1:30pm: TEATIME at The Movies!

TEATIME at The Movies begins today, our new, fun summer series, as we read from the library of Lux Radio adaptations of great films of the 20th C

TODAY: "The African Queen."  

The African Queen is a 1935 novel written by English author C. S. Forester. The novel was made into a film in 1951: The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnutt and Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer. Allnutt is changed to a Canadian in the film to explain Bogart's accent. The church is changed to Methodist from Anglican - though the paper which Allnut delivers to the missionaries in the first scene records the elevation of a college friend of the missionaries to being a bishop, which makes no sense given that the Methodist Church in England had (and has) no bishops.

Lux Hollywood presented this John Huston production on the radio in December of 1952,  with Greer Garson, another Academy Award winner, varying her popular role of the charming wife to play the strait-laced spinster Rose.

Join Corwyn Allen, Gloriana Maertens, Kayden Oconnell & Elrik Merlin for a backyard festival of radio drama versions of some of the finest and most beloved films of the golden age of 20th C cinema. Popcorn provided.

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THURSDAY, July 1st: LITTLE FUZZY *plus* LATE NIGHT

 LITTLE FUZZY concludes in The Glen

Protagonist Jack Holloway lives a solitary life mining valuable "sunstones" in the wilderness of the planet Zarathustra, managed by Victor Grego's Chartered Zarathustra Company, which built colonial outposts there and now reaps the benefits of the planet's resources. One day, Holloway meets a small golden-furred humanoid whom he names "Little Fuzzy", who soon introduces Holloway to his family. Holloway cares for the Fuzzies and spreads word of their apparently intelligent behavior. 

Kt presents H. Beam Piper's tale, live on Stream.

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@ 9pm: SEANCHAI LATE NIGHT

Contemporary Sci-Fi-Fantasy with Finn Zeddmore back on the Library's main story floor.

WEDNESDAY, June 30th at 7pm: SKINK - No Surrender! Concludes

It's been a rough trip for Skink, the ex-Gov of Florida. He's had his foot run over while saving a baby skunk, wrestled with an alligator, and then taken a gun shot to the chest from Tommy Chalmers. Skink and Richard have been tracking Tommy down, after he kidnapped Richard's cousin, Malley. Life has been no picnic for Tommy either, he's had a catfish stinger impale his hand, and been gored by a wild pig. After bringing Skink back to life with some emergency CPR, Tommy slipped away from Malley's rescuers. Will they find him before the book ends?

Kayden concludes Carl Hiaasen's adventure, live.

WEDNESDAY, June 23rd at 7pm: "SKINK - No Surrender!" Continues

 

Blinding storms, poisonous snakes, crazed pigs and giant gators. Add in a missing young girl, her improbably brave cousin, and a ragged wandering vigilante named Skink, and Carl Hiaasen sets the stage for a Florida misadventure in "Skink -- No Surrender." This young adult novel brings back Hiaasen's iconic character Skink, from his earlier book, "Stormy Weather." All the nuts do roll down to Florida, so join us on the beach for some fun in the sun. But watch out fer the gators.

Kayden continues Carl Hiaasen's adventure, live.

SUNDAY, June 20th at 1:30pm: TEATIME with Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise is a British comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by author Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway in 1963. The strip follows Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin. It was adapted into films in 1966, 1982, and 2003, and from 1965 onwards eleven novels and two short story collections were written. 

TODAY: Elrik, Corwyn, Kayden, Glori, and Cale as they present "The Giggle Wrecker" from the short story collection "Pieces of Modesty," live on stream from the Seanchai Library Fireside Room.

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WEDNESDAY, June 16th at 7pm: SKINK - No Surrender! Continues

Blinding storms, poisonous snakes, crazed pigs and giant gators. Add in a missing young girl, her improbably brave cousin, and a ragged wandering vigilante named Skink, and Carl Hiaasen sets the stage for a Florida misadventure in "Skink -- No Surrender." This young adult novel brings back Hiaasen's iconic character Skink, from his earlier book, "Stormy Weather." All the nuts do roll down to Florida, so join us on the beach for some fun in the sun. Watch out fer the gators.

Kayden continues Carl Hiaasen's adventure, live.

WEDNESDAY, June 9th at 7PM: SKINK - No Surrender! Continues

 

Blinding storms, poisonous snakes, crazed pigs and giant gators. Add in a missing young girl, her improbably brave cousin, and a ragged wandering vigilante named Skink, and Carl Hiaasen sets the stage for a Florida misadventure in "Skink -- No Surrender." This young adult novel brings back Hiaasen's iconic character Skink, from his earlier book, "Stormy Weather." All the nuts do roll down to Florida, so join us on the beach for some fun in the sun. But watch out fer the gators.

Kayden continues Carl Hiaasen's adventure, live.