The Recent Ghost of Halloween Past

The Incredible Shrinking Skipper (10/26/19)
Photograph by Cindy Lowe.

The Ross Community Center Roadshow

Tom Cherry’s Old Time Radio Show went on the road to the Ross Community Center to help celebrate their International Festival this past Saturday (September 21, 2019)! It was a beautiful day to share the magic of radio! Thank you to the kind folks at Ross for inviting the radio gang to such a worthy event! More thanks to Sean Orlosky, Wendy Carpenter, Gabe Carpenter, Bob Green, Katy Wolfe, Cliff Lowe and Dalton Knox for sharing their time and talent!

Photograph by Cindy Lowe

The Radio Gang Strikes Again!

Larry Beck, Sean Orlosky, Todd Terrell, Wendy Carpenter, Angela Gick and Bob Green perform a scene from MY FRIEND IRMA (June 22, 2019). Photo by Cindy Lowe

Scenes From an Old Time Radio Show

Pictures from Tom Cherry's Old Time Radio Show (July 28, 2018)
Photo collage taken and assembled by Cindy Lowe

Basil Has Left the Building

The cast and crew of Chiller Thriller Theatre with Basil Q. Mylk-Bone: (Front, l-r) Judy Cole, Thomas Nelson III, Missy Donahue, Little Guy, Bob Green, Tony Morris with Murgatroyd dangling below. (Back, l-r) Sean Orlosky, Cliff Lowe, Tom Cherry, Jeff Shull, Jerry Cole, Sean Heline, and Cindy Lowe.

Chiller Thriller Theatre with Basil Q. Mylk-Bone is now over. Thank you to all the folks who attended and even more thanks to all the wonderful people, onstage and off, who made this fun experience possible. Making good shows with good people. Who can ask for anything more?

This Halloween Weekend

  This weekend is your last chance to see Chiller Thriller Theatre with Basil Q. Mylk-Bone! It stars the finest cast around and features some horrific tales with a comic edge! If you would like to see the show, tickets are just ten dollars! If you prefer eating a delicious catered meal a half hour before the show, it'll only cost you twenty dollars (Seniors $18.00)! Plus desserts at intermission! Friday and Saturday shows start at 7:00pm (Dinner at 6:30pm) and Sunday's matinee is at 1:00pm (Lunch at 12:30pm)! To make reservations please call 765-468-7631! Join us for our costume contest on Halloween! Dress up and YOU may win some special prizes! No tricks here, folks, just treats!   Photograph by Cindy Lowe.

Good Guys and Bad News

  GOOD NEWS: The wonderful Cindy Lowe recently finished work on one of the stars of my play, Two Guys and a Pearl! Meet Little Guy and his stunt double, Mort! Little Guy will be making his stage debut as part of Chiller Thriller Theatre with Basil Q. Mylk-Bone on October 24 at the Farmland Center!   BAD NEWS: My laptop finally called it quits so my presence on the Interwebs may be a limited for a bit. Thankfully my Aunt Lee Ann is letting me use her computer to write scripts and surf the world wide web for awhile as I decide on my next computer purchase. Thanks, Aunt Lee Ann!   GOOD NEWS: Ending on a happy note, the radio gang loaded up the radio Winnebago and took Tom Cherry's Old Time Radio Show on the road to Heather Hills Baptist Church in Indianapolis yesterday. We all had fun performing for the church's chili cook off and we met a lot of great people! Plus we had some tasty chili as well! Thanks to Missy Donahue, Katy Wolfe, Jeff Shull, Jeff Rapkin, and Jerry and Judy Cole for helping create another fantastic show!

The October People

  Last Saturday I helped Cliff Lowe, Tony Morris, Cindy Lowe, and Sean Orlosky tape some scenes for our Halloween show, Chiller Thriller Theatre with Basil Q. Mylk-Bone. The premise of the show is that it is actually a horror movie marathon hosted by Mr. Mylk-Bone (Played by Mr. Orlosky). Our two plays, Cliff's Vampire in the Attic and my Two Guys and a Pearl, serve as the horror movies. Since Sean will be on vacation during the show's run, Basil's bits were recorded to appear on an actual TV that will be played on and off throughout the two acts.

It was a lot of fun taping the host segments and it brought back fond memories of those good, old days when I used to work on my public access sitcom years ago. Plus I got to be the voice of Murgatroyd, Basil's spider co-host! How can you not have a good time with great friends and a spider puppet?

Photograph by Cindy Lowe.

Coming This Halloween!

  Sean Orlosky is Basil Q. Mylk-Bone, the host of Chiller Thriller Theatre, a new Halloween show debuting this October at the Farmland Center featuring two original plays by local playwright Clifford Lowe and myself. Running October 24-26 and October 31-November 2! Tricks and treats will be provided! Photograph by Cindy Lowe.

The Pain (Oh, the Pain!) of Live Theatre

Saw a lousy piece of theatre last night with Sean Orlosky and Cliff and Cindy Lowe. It was the perfect marriage of bad acting and a bad script. You know you're in trouble when the lead actor spends most of his time making eye contact with the floor. You could also tell he was a professional actor because he had at least 85 percent of his lines memorized. According to the program, he was also the executive producer of the piece which explains a lot. The script was full of lazy writing and the performers did a fine job reading their lines. Knowing they were all part of a professional touring group should give hope to amateur actors everywhere! Watching that play was like watching a episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in person (I called dibs on Tom Servo!). Believe it or not, we all had a great time!