Podcast: Open Season
No lights, no camera, but plenty of action. The Wall Street Journal visited the set an audio adaptation of Vermont author Archer Mayor's first mystery novel, Open Season--the latest production from Fred Greenhalgh's FinalRune Productions.
"What amazes me is that audio drama just won't go away," said Sue Zizza, a sound-effects artist and one of the director's mentors. "It's so primal in us. No matter how much we ignore it, there are still people out there like Fred."
The inspiration for Open Season came from Martin Cohn, a public relations man who approached Mayor about adapting one of his 20 Joe Gunther mysteries, which are set in Vermont, into an audio drama. Greenhalgh was hired to produce a pilot. According to the Journal, the "script, the theater, the actors, the sound man and the lasagna are setting Mr. Cohn and Mr. Mayor back $1,500."
