51.1 All Aboard! "The Sleeper Car"

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Drama, Arts, Fiction, Performing Arts

4.5 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We apologize for the delay and appreciate your patience, but our train is now ready to leave the station. Please have your tickets ready. All Aboard!
Join us for a cross-country locomotive journey as romantic as you can imagine — with just a touch of the diabolical in every car.
We begin our journey in "The Sleeper Car" where espionage and intrigue take the top bunk. Settle in for the ride!

All Aboard! was recorded live in NYC on January 26, 2020.

Cast:
Matt Roper as Max
Rebecca Kopec as Helen
Kacie Laforest as Jean
Alain Laforest as Paul
James Rieser as Frank
James Scully as Eddie the Porter
Ali Silva as Ethel
David Linton as Harry
Mary Murphy as Eva
Michael Pate as Bob the Policeman

Audio play written by Gabriella Miyares
Directed by Holly Payne-Strange

Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez & Ali Silva
Musical score improvised by Dan Crowley
Additional music by Felix Slim
Sound effects design: Greg Russ & Ali Silva
Live show sound engineer: Evan Sachs
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	Hello, friends. I know it has been a while. What a super weird and scary time we're in, for whatever time means anymore. But we're all in this limbo together, right? So why don't we just dive hard into some good, old-fashioned escapism together,
0:22.7	huh? It's what we do best here at Fireside, in our own strange, silly, creepy, and macab
0:28.6	fashion anyway. Have you ever traveled long distances by train? Maybe in Europe, here in the
0:34.5	States, or elsewhere? The idea, no doubt, evokes some terribly
0:39.0	romantic visions. And surely it can be, for some. But when you're a spy on a secret mission
0:46.5	to catch a Nazi war criminal, you may find that romance loses its luster in the face of cold,
0:53.1	cruel reality.
0:55.3	The Sleeper Car is the first car we'll visit in this collection of stories set on a cross-country locomotive journey entitled All Aboard.
1:04.0	It was taped live in New York City on January 26, 2020.
1:08.1	Even though that time now feels a world away, we think you'll still enjoy. Full steam ahead, my friends. Listen to that sound.
1:35.5	It's a sound that doesn't have quite the same weight or significance today as it did an age ago.
1:43.5	Well, not really. The year is 1947. The sound of a
1:48.6	passenger train careening, lonely and smooth along riverbanks, glistening silver in the moonlight,
1:56.9	is the sound of the restless dreamer. But this passenger locomotive is carrying with it more than just travelers.
2:04.6	Its freight?
2:06.6	Tales both mysterious and bizarre.
2:10.6	Stories that all happened on a particular journey,
2:14.6	on a particular train, on a particular train, on a particular night,
2:18.7	just like this one, which occurred in the vessel's sleeper car.
2:58.6	...and... I'm It's not every day a beautiful woman offers me a lighter. Let me guess, it's usually the other way around.
3:01.6	Come here. You're beautiful.
3:05.6	You're not so bad yourself. Uh...
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