48.1 Holiday Haunts 2019: "The Gingerbread Man"
Fireside Mystery Theatre
Fireside Mystery Theatre
4.5 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
"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
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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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