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49.2 The Fortune Teller: "Anita, Alexandra, & the Weepy Little Sad Man"

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Drama, Arts, Fiction, Performing Arts

4.5626 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Meet Anita's sister! They are super tight. Even though they live on different spectral planes.

"Anita, Alexandra, & the Weepy Little Sad Man" is another adventure with Anita in our Fortune Teller series. It was recorded live in NYC on 12/15/19.

The cast featured in this episode:
Ali Silva as Anita The Fortune Teller
Michael Pate as Mr. Schmitt
Kacie Laforest as Alexandra
James Rieser as Marius
Alain Laforest as Mr. Stanley
Rebecca Kopec as The Mystery Women
James Kleinmann as the waiter
David Linton as the dentist Dr. Littlefield
Eirik Davey-Gislason as Marius’s father Adam

Audio play by Lizz Leiser and Kacie Laforest
Directed by Holly Payne-Strange

Song:
“If You Could Read My Mind” by Gordon Lightfoot
Performed by Kat Reinhert accompanied by Nico Sleator

The Fortune Teller is dedicated to the magical Joey Wilder

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
Production assistant: Evan Sachs
Theme music by Jason Graves
Audio post-production: Ali Silva

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, friends. Tell me, if you could contact anyone from the Great Beyond, who would it be?

0:12.1

Socrates, for some scintillating discourse? Jack the Ripper for a mystery solved.

0:17.9

Your great-grandmother Geraldine for the secret to her perfect pie crust, it's lemon

0:22.4

zest, by the way. Who can say what you do with your third eye open? Think on it while I offer

0:28.3

you our own tale of second sight and spectral revelry. I'd also like to extend a special welcome to

0:35.5

our listeners from beyond the veil.

0:42.3

As I'm sure you know, our spectral demographic always rises when a narrative features a spirit in the spotlight. So yes, that cold patch of air wafting past is exactly what you think

0:48.4

it is. Please do make room for our otherworldly visitors as we settle in for a tale about a man, a medium, and a ghost,

0:56.9

or two.

0:58.1

Anita, Alexandra, and the weepy little sad man was taped live in New York City on December 15th, 2019.

1:06.2

This fortune-teller series, in all its humor and eccentricity, its charm and eerie sparkle, is dedicated to Joey Wilder, a man of all that magic and so much more.

1:22.9

Anita is a fortune teller. Enter her parlor and you will see all the tools of her trade.

1:29.9

The crystal believes, a zodiac chart, the mysterious cards of the taro.

1:37.2

Coupon inserts for box chain discount stores, piles of unhoping junk mail, a collection of

1:42.8

redeemable plastic bottles that one of these days

1:45.0

will be recycled. An electric snuggy. I know what some of you may be thinking, but do not make

1:52.5

any snap judgments about Anita. Sometimes the ordinary and the fantastic are more entwined than we realize.

2:01.6

The wheel of our storytelling spindle turns

2:04.6

so that a patchwork of varied visions is threaded right before us.

2:10.4

Here is one of those visions. Ah, ace of ones.

2:27.8

Of course.

2:29.9

The answer could not be more clear, Mr. Schmidt.

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