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52.3 The Ride Sharers: "Anywhere You Want to Go"

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Drama, Arts, Fiction, Performing Arts

4.5626 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A surly driver for the Schnell ride-sharing company acquires a brand new sense of direction.
“Anywhere You Want to Go” is the third of our four-part series, The Ride Sharers.

It was taped live on stage in NYC in December 2018.

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Cast featured in this episode:
Eirik Davey-Gislason as Philip
Michael Pate as Tony
David Linton as The Disgruntled Passenger
James Kleinmann as Frederick Albans
James Rieser as Vernon Ames
Alain Laforest as Jackson Ames
Ali Silva as Susan Weems
Kacie Laforest as Barb, The Traffic Cop
Mary Murphy as RUTH, voice of the GPS

Song:
“Big Yellow Taxi,” by Joni Mitchell
Performed by Martina DaSilva with Brad Whiteley

Special musical guest:
Tom Shaner with his own composition, "Careless Driver"
http://blog.tomshaner.com

Audio play by Silbin Sandovar
Directed by Holly Payne-Strange

Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez & Ali Silva
Musical score improvised by Brad Whiteley
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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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, glad you stopped by.

0:07.0

Oh, what's this I'm holding in my hand?

0:09.0

This old relic, this crumbling piece of parchment.

0:13.0

Oh, don't tell me, you haven't seen one of these before.

0:15.0

Of course you have. It's a map.

0:17.0

Remember these? You used to find at least one in every glove compartment and every

0:21.8

vehicle on the road. Not so much these days, I guess. Not when you have the technology of GPS

0:27.5

available to you. Not when you have someone or something like a Ruth. What do I mean by that?

0:35.8

Well, press on with us and find out. This episode from our four-part

0:39.6

series, The Rideshares, was unearthed from our vault of unreleased gems. It was taped live in

0:45.9

New York City on December 16, 2018.

0:54.1

I am very excited to welcome to the stage a very special guest.

1:00.3

When the rakishly debonair singer-songwriter, man about town, Tom Schener,

1:07.2

heard about the theme of our show this evening, he couldn't resist sharing with us a great song of his.

1:13.9

Once we heard it, we knew we just had to share it with the rest of you here tonight.

1:18.5

With us to perform his original song, Careless Driver,

1:22.8

is the gentleman drifter himself, Tom Schener.

1:26.1

Thank you,

1:30.3

Thanks, Alan. I've been a careless driver down the highway of my days.

2:03.3

I did not know the road curved so many ways.

2:13.4

I've been a careless driver turning down lost roads never was the kind to do

2:23.3

what I was told

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