Watch your head! Seattle Radio Theater presents 'sleepy hollow'
Pat Cashman, John Maynard, Lee Callahan, Tracey Conway and Jim Dever performed a live radio drama broadcast Friday night October 28, 2011 at 8p on AM1090 (KPTK).
It's an adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (penned and directed by radio historian-about-town Feliks Banel) as part of a national project called Sleepy Hollow: The Ride Across America.
It's a "modern" version, so Banel set the story in Seattle and Concrete, WA in 1941. Why Concrete, you ask? Banal's version riffs from the Orson Welles, 1938 War of the Worlds panic that hit the little Skagit County town particularly hard.
Probably the most terrified listeners were in the town of Concrete, located in Skagit County, 60 miles northeast of Seattle. By sheer coincidence, during the midpoint of the broadcast a power failure plunged almost the entire town of 1,000 into darkness. Some listeners fainted while others grabbed their families to head up into the mountains. Some of the men grabbed their guns, planning to blow away any bug-eyed monster or spaceship that got in their way.
The plot maintains the incident may have been related to something less benign than the radio show. Dever plays the hardboiled detective Irving Washington (get it?!?!) who must sort out a town full of shady characters to get to the bottom of the disappearance of Ichabod Crane.
The troupe dedicated the broadcast to radio drama pioneer Norman Corwin, who died the week before.
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This i will grab me for tonight. Thanks, Master Rikabod! ;)
Thanks Rik once again.
You welcome! ------ R