55.1 Nightfall on the Nutmeg State: "Old Wolf Put"
Fireside Mystery Theatre
Fireside Mystery Theatre
4.5 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Where did all the wolves in Connecticut go? Only Israel Putnam knows.
"Old Wolf Put" is the first of four episodes from our recent return to the live stage! Nightfall on the Nutmeg State is an original series crafted from the lore and legends of the great state of Connecticut — and it was performed live at The Westport Library in Westport, CT, on Friday the 13th of October, 2023.
Written by Silbin Sandovar
Featured cast:
Ali Silva as Narrator
James Rieser as Israel Putnam
James Kleinmann as Henry
Eirik Davey-Gislason as Farmer Dodd
Michael Pate as Farmer Barney
Kacie Laforest as Kate
Alain Laforest as Donovan
Mary Murphy as Evelyn
Produced by Ali Silva & Gustavo Rodriguez for Fireside Mystery Productions
with amazing support from Verso Studios at The Westport Library @westportlibrary @verso.studios
Musical score: Nico Sleator
Lead sound effects designer and engineer: Greg Russ
Additional sound design: Ricardo Delgado & Ali Silva
Direction team: Lizz Leiser, Kacie Laforest & Ali Silva
Fireside production coven: Lizz Leiser, Kacie Laforest & Mary Murphy
FMT theme music: Jason Graves
Audio post-production: Ali Silva
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:25.5 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.6 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:36.7 | Hello there. Have you missed us? |
| 0:41.3 | Have you missed us as much as we have missed performing in front of a live audience? Well, three years away from the stage was more than we could bear, but now, at long last, it has happened. |
| 0:47.3 | And here is the proof, the unvarnished evidence of our rebirth and resurrection. |
| 0:53.3 | You are about to hear the first of four brand-new tales that we brood from scratch for a special |
| 0:59.5 | presentation we called Nightfall on the Nutmeg State, a poisoned pen letter of pernicious |
| 1:06.2 | passion to the great state of Connecticut. The story you're about to hear now, |
| 1:11.9 | Old Wolf Putt, |
| 1:14.1 | was taped live at the Westport Library in Westport, Connecticut |
| 1:15.4 | on Friday the 13th of October, |
| 1:18.1 | 2023. |
| 1:22.9 | Music I'm going to be. Oh, and |
| 1:30.3 | the I know you can hear them. |
| 1:45.0 | I know you can hear them. You can feel them all around us. Tonight, they have somehow returned. |
| 2:08.8 | But it can't at all be possible. Most locals know this. Wolves are not to be found in this place called |
| 2:16.4 | Connecticut. The Nupmeg State, the Constitution |
| 2:20.3 | State, the home of Noah Webster and its famous dictionary, Mark Twain, P.T. Barnum, |
| 2:26.3 | Harriet Featyrstow, and one Israel Putnam, who, on a moonlit night in 1743, in the township of Pompret? |
| 2:37.0 | Huss! |
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