48.1 Holiday Haunts 2019: "The Gingerbread Man"

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Drama, Arts, Fiction, Performing Arts

4.5 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes fairy tales are real. And sometimes a sweet tooth can get you into trouble.

"The Gingerbread Man" is the first of our freshly baked Holiday Haunts for 2019. It was recorded live in NYC on 11/17/19.

We wish all of our listeners a happy holiday season!

The cast featured in this episode:
Alain Laforest as Father
James Scully as the street Santa
James Rieser as the policeman
Ali Silva as Gretta
Eirik Davey-Gislason as Henry
David Linton as The Baker
James Kleinmann as Hansel
Kacie Laforest as Gretel

Audio play written by Courtenay Gillean Cholovich and directed by Holly Payne-Strange

Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez & Ali Silva
Musical score improvised by Nico Sleator
Sound effects designer & engineer: Greg Russ
Technical director at The Slipper Room: Johnny Goddard
Theme music by Jason Graves
Audio post-production: Ali Silva
Copyright 2019 Fireside Mystery Productions

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0:00.0	Hi. Well, I see you've wandered into my kitchen. Couldn't resist the smell, huh? Yep, I'm baking a batch of gingerbread. What's my recipe? Well, I suppose I don't mind sharing it with you. I take half a cup of sugar, half cup of butter,
0:23.0	a teaspoon of ground ginger, half a teaspoon clove, four tablespoons molasses, a tablespoon of honey,
0:29.2	and just a pinch of arsenic... Oh, sorry, you know, there are some things that are just best
0:34.5	kept secret. Hey now. Okay, well, since I can't tell you my secret
0:39.0	ingredient, I'll make it up to you by sharing the following tale. It's called The Gingerbread Man,
0:45.5	and it's the first of this year's batch of freshly baked holiday haunts. It was taped live in New York City
0:51.3	on November 17th, run. That's you can't catch me. I'm the gingerbread man.
1:29.3	Run, run, run.
1:30.3	That's what you can.
1:31.3	Can't catch me.
1:32.3	I'm the ginger red man.
1:34.3	That's mine.
1:36.3	I want that.
1:37.3	It's going to be mine.
1:39.3	Merry Christmas!
1:41.3	That's mine. Greta?
1:46.9	Henry?
1:48.5	Greta, where have you gotten to with your brother?
1:50.8	Henry!
1:51.8	Spare some change.
1:53.3	Spare some change for the bucket.
1:55.1	Spare some change for those who need this Christmas season.
	...

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