About this Event
The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society invites you to celebrate the Halloween season with two uniquely American vampire stories, performed in the style of vintage radio broadcasts, complete with period commercials and live sound effects.
It’s an “entertaining and creepy homage to an era gone by” (Cherry and Spoon), brought to life by veteran Twin Cities performers Shanan Custer, Joshua English Scrimshaw, Tim Uren, and Eric Webster, who “use their voices to paint a picture so vivid that if you close your eyes, you can see the action in your mind's eye.” (Stages of Minnesota) “The Horror from the Mound” from Escape: Desperate to save his failing Texas farm, Steve Brill stakes everything on a local legend of buried gold. What he finds beneath the earth will change his life forever. Adapted from the 1932 short story by Robert E. Howard. “Moonlight of Madness” from Inner Sanctum: Struggling author Edgar Allan Poe investigates the strange case of a woman who survived being buried alive, only to discover that she may have returned from the grave as something else. Adapted from the 1940 short story by Manly Wade Wellman.
Shanan Custer, Joshua English Scrimshaw, Tim Uren, and Eric Webster
The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society performed its first staged old-time radio recreation in 2016 at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater in Minneapolis. Since then, the Society has appeared at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, Daleko Arts in New Prague, the Wabasha Street Caves in Saint Paul, and The Phipps Center in Hudson. Their recreations were also featured monthly from 2017 to 2019 at the James J. Hill Center and from 2020 to 2022 at Park Square Theatre in Saint Paul. Currently, MORLS can be seen every other month at Crooners Supper Club in Minneapolis.
“This show is an entertaining and creepy homage to an era gone by, that of the radio drama. The creators of this show have a podcast of the same name… and their love for and knowledge of the genre is evident… There's a reason these radio horror shows were so popular, and happily they continue to exist in some form today thanks to Ghoulish Delights.” -Cherry and Spoon
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Event venue & nearby stays
Main Stage Showroom, 6161 Hwy 65 NE, Minneapolis, United States
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