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Fireside Mystery Theatre

38.3 LOST AT SEA: "True North"

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Drama, Arts, Fiction, Performing Arts

4.5626 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tensions escalate as a dysfunctional family takes their problems to the high seas for a cryptic cruise...

"True North" was recorded live at The Slipper Room in NYC on January 28th, 2018\. It's the 3rd part of our series of nautical nightmares, **Lost at Sea**.

Cast:
David Linton as Charles Wilcox
Eirik Davey-Gislason as Junior Wilcox
Michael Pate as Lenny Lawrence
Ali Silva as Lily Lawrence Wilcox
Mary Murphy as Candy Wilcox
Kacie Laforest as Clarissa Wilcox
James Rieser as The Captain
Alain Laforest as The First Mate
Gustavo Rodriguez as Pavel Wilcox

Song:
“Harbor Lights” by Jimmy Kennedy & Wilhelm Grosz
Performed by Susan O’Dea accompanied by Jason Yeager

Radio play by Courtenay Gillean Cholovich
Directed by Holly Payne-Strange

Musical score improvised by Steve Blanco
Sound Effects Designer and Engineer: Greg Russ
Technical Director at The Slipper Room: Johnny Goddard
Theme music by Jason Graves

Post-production audio & podcast production by Ali Silva

Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez & Ali Silva for Fireside Mystery Productions

Copyright 2018 Fireside Mystery Productions

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Our little ghost ship has been set adrift with neither chart nor course.

0:09.0

We have only the moon and the stars to guide us.

0:13.0

I have a faint premonition of where we may be heading,

0:16.0

and it fills me with apprehension and terror to imagine what sinister destination awaits us.

0:22.9

A terrific tale is about to be told, that is, if you're willing to go down with the ship.

0:29.3

True North was recorded live in New York City on January 28, 2018.

0:33.5

It was part of our show, Lost at Sea. It was relaxed already now. This is a vacation. Am I right?

1:12.6

Yeah, great, Dad. Really? You still there? Look, Regina. Regina, I'm going to be on this rusty bucket for a few weeks,

1:17.6

and odds are that I won't have any service out there, so I'm asking you what the odds are that I come back to a company still afloat.

1:24.6

He should be worried whether we'll stay afloat from the look of this thing.

1:28.3

Oh, Lenny, hush now.

1:30.3

Don't let your father hear you.

1:32.3

No, Mom.

1:32.8

I'll be sure not to upset Charles and ruin his, quote, family adventure.

1:36.7

Did I hear adventure?

1:38.7

Getting into the spirit, are we?

1:41.0

Oh, well, no, well, now here's me first mate, eh?

1:44.6

Aye, aye, Captain. Reporting for Judy.

1:47.1

There you go. Get your sea legs about your candy bar? Here, let me tick them.

1:52.7

Going over the bill.

1:56.5

Captain Grandpa, that tickles.

2:00.7

Junior, Junior, honey, your father isn't really captaining this vessel, is he?

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