SHADOWGRAM OFFICIAL DARK SHADOWS ONLINE NEWS: SHADOWGRAM NEWS UPDATE # 335 November 22, 2014 The Official Dark Shadows Published Newsletters The Official Dark Shadows Online News Updates Marcy Robins Cyberspace Dark Shadows News Updates An Official Internet Publication of SHADOWGRAM Each of these SG News Updates is initially posted through the ShadowGram Yahoo Group. Joining the Group is free. To receive a Yahoo Group invitation, or to learn more about the ShadowGram Official Dark Shadows Published Newsletters by postal mail subscription, or if you have any questions, please directly contact Marcy Robin at the following email address: ShadowGram@aol You also can join the SG Group directly at: movies.groups.yahoo/group/ShadowGram/ ******************************************** Update Number 335 November 22, 2014 ******************************************** Hello, Dark Shadows Fan, ShadowGram (SG), The Official Newsletter & News Source for Dark Shadows (DS), announces the following key breaking news in this Official DS News Online Update bulletin. **** JONATHAN FRID’S READERS THEATRE SHOW PERFORMANCES ON DVD **** SG PREMIERE ANNOUNCEMENT: 2 NEW DS AUDIO DRAMAS – CASTING NEWS **** JONATHAN FRID: ONE-MAN READERS THEATRE PERFORMANCE DVDS The DS Festival / Official DS Fan Club asks SG to please share about the “EXCLUSIVE LIMITED EDITION OFFICIAL JONATHAN FRID DVDs.” The late Jonathan Frid thrilled millions as vampire Barnabas Collins. In his later years, he entertained with his live, wonderfully dramatic one-man Readers Theatre presentations. Mystery, suspense, commentary, and his own special brand of humor were expressed through literary selections from the Bible, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King, Groucho Marx, James Thurber, and other authors and sources – including Jonathan himself. From the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, Jonathan performed before audiences in venues large and small across the U.S. and in eastern Canada. He used no costumes, props, or sound / special effects. Only his voice talents, body language, facial expressions, and the written words themselves created the myriad characters, settings, and moods. Before and after DS, Jonathan enjoyed a long career on stage in roles ranging from Caliban and Richard III to a comic turn as Jonathan Brewster in the classic play “Arsenic and Old Lace” (on Broadway and national tour 1986-87). His various Readers Theater live programs showcased all his talents as an actor, storyteller, director, and observer of life itself. To benefit Jonathans special charity in his Canadian hometown – the Hamilton Community Foundation – a very limited number of DVDs are offered. Each features videos of Jonathan in performance. These are available only by mail-order from the Dark Shadows Festival / Dark Shadows Official Fan Club. FOOLS AND FIENDS presents Jonathan in a live Readers Theater production recorded in September, 1992, at the Mid-Manhattan Library in New York City. FRID – EVIL presents Jonathan on stage with his “Shakespearean Odyssey” program, celebrating his fascination of Shakespeare. It was performed and recorded live in 1990 in New York City. JONATHAN FRID – AGAIN! “Presents all-new readings by Jonathan of an assortment of poetry, prose and musings to amuse and, we hope, delight. “ Each DVD is $12.00. Two or three DVDs are $10.00 each. Check or Money Order only, payable to: Dark Shadows Festival. Sorry, credit card and PayPal can not be accepted. Please send your order and payment to: Dark Shadows Festival P. O. Box 92 Maplewood, NJ 07040 **** SG PREMIERE ANNOUNCEMENT: 2 DS STARS IN 2 NEW SEPARATE AUDIO DRAMAS IN 2015 England-based Big Finish Productions’ (BFP) first DS audio drama debuted at the DS Festival in Brooklyn 8-2006. A range of these original “Stories on CD” have been released throughout the years and will continue in 2015. These stories are based in the 1966-71 DS and performed by many of the actual DS cast members as their TV or as new characters. Each DS cast member – plus other actors from America and England – has been recorded live in professional studios in LA, NYC, Denver, Florida, and England. Sound effects and music enhance the atmospheres and characterizations. SG here premiere-announces that each of 2 new releases in 2015 stars a DS actor participating for the first time. --- One release will star MITCHELL RYAN (Burke Devlin) in his first DS audio drama, along with KATHRYN LEIGH SCOTT (Maggie). -- One CD release will star SUSAN SULLIVAN (Ghost) in her first DS audio drama, along with DAVID SELBY (Quentin). SG Online Updates and the upcoming SG #124 published newsletter will report more confirmed developments on these and future DS audio dramas from BFP. Also, very soon SG will announce more details for BFP’s “Bloodlust,” a major new multi-CD release with a large cast and a riveting, complex story spanning 13 episodes. **** SG NOTES Each published SG newsletter features confirmed news and information direct from the DS cast / crew about their projects and activities, Dan Curtis Productions, the DS Festival, MPI, Big Finish Productions, Hermes Press, and others involved in DS today. There are photos, announcements, reports, publicity materials, media coverage, and updates for DS guest/fan gatherings, plus all the definite DS news and plans. To subscribe / renew to the complete ShadowGram Official Dark Shadows Newsletters: --- US & Canadian First Class subscriptions: $12.00 for 4 issues, $24.00 for 8 issues. ---Overseas Air Mail subscriptions: US $20.00 for 4 issues, US $40.00 for 8 issues. Please send your subscription / renewal payment by check or money order, made payable to: Marcy Robin P.O. Box 1766 Temple City, CA 91780-7766 Email: ShadowGram@aol Subscription/renewal payments also can be made via PayPal to: ShadowGram@aol After your subscription/renewal arrives, I will send you the current Double SG #122-#123 as well as the upcoming SG #124 and future SG issues as they are published. ---- Fans attending personal appearances by the DS actors always are encouraged and welcome to please share with SG their reports, photos, video footage, program books, local publicity, media articles, interviews, reviews, etc. Each experience and perspective is unique and helps let SG readers who can’t attend “be there with you.” As always, SG invites and asks fans to please share any DS-related materials you find at any time. These can be on-air, in print, and online, international, nationwide, or local, including media publicity, references, articles, reviews, interviews, commentaries, etc. Such items can be hard copies (photographs, newspapers, magazines, program books, flyers). You can email photos and articles at high resolution or send materials via postal-mail. Please always include your full name and the source name and date. Please send all items to ShadowGram’s postal- and e- mail addresses above. You will be named as a Contributor in the published SG newsletter. You also may receive a complementary Contributors Copy for major donations of photos, information, funds, postage stamps, supplies, publicity, assistance, etc. Thank you in advance for your support and sharing. All such information is important to ShadowGram, the Official DS Newsletter Publication. Subscribers of all ages are across the US and worldwide. I send complimentary copies of every issue directly to many of the DS cast and crew. They share their news with me for SG, and they enjoy learning about their DS colleagues in SGs pages. The release of each SG published newsletter is announced in an SG Online Update via the SG Yahoo Group and other social media. **** PLEASE NOTE: These breaking-news Official DS Online News Update bulletins are officially posted through the ShadowGram Yahoo Group. These brief email Updates are * NOT * the actual Official DS Newsletter. The published SG print issues provide and report in depth, with pictures, quotes, publicity and media materials, and more. To receive each SG Online Update directly to you as an email, please join the free SG Yahoo Group. You do not need to be a SG postal-mail subscriber to join the Group. To become a member of the ShadowGram YahooGroup, go to movies.groups.yahoo/group/ShadowGram/ To receive an invitation – which makes it even easier to join the Group – please directly email Marcy Robin at ShadowGram@aol You can read past SG Online Updates once youre a member of the Group by clicking on the Messages tab. If youd like more information on how to become a SG Yahoo Group member, or if you have any questions, please e-mail Marcy Robin at ShadowGram@aol This Update is posted to the ShadowGram Yahoo Group and is dispersed by interested people to various lists, boards, websites, groups, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal, Tumblr, in personal emails and other online / print communications. PLEASE include ShadowGrams complete e- and postal- mail addresses and subscription information in all of your online sharing. SHADOWGRAM (SG) is the * Official * Dark Shadows Newsletter. Much of its news is directly provided by the shows personnel and those involved in the 1966-71 TV series and the 1991 TV series. Established 35+ years ago in April, 1979, SG always works directly with the cast /crew and related individuals, companies, and others involved in DS creation, distribution, promotion, merchandise, etc. SG print issues usually are published 2-3 times during a year. See subscription information and contact addresses above. For more newsletter information or if you have any questions, please email or send a SASE (Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope) to the postal-mail address: Thank you. Marcy Robin ShadowGram Editor / Publisher P.O. Box 1766 Temple City, CA 91780-7766 E-mail: ShadowGram@aol
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