Jonas Spongeman Crossing

A quick, dirty antidote to any overdose of holiday cheer.

It’s Christmas Night, 1776.  A boat carrying a cannon across the Delaware River during George Washington’s famous crossing also carries snatches of conversation among the two Marblehead boatmen poling the craft and an Irish gunner attached to the cannon.  The bitter rain has turned to driving snow.  The river is choked with ice cakes the size of livestock.  And on the other side are four hundred Hessian mercenaries to be fought come the dawn.  Will they be asleep, drunk from their Yuletide revels, like the Virginian General hopes?  Or will they be waiting for the rag-tag rebel army with their own Christmas surprise?

William Salyers directs a cast of veteran voice talent in this ten minute audio drama. {Adult language}

Jonas Spongeman Crossing by Paul Mullin

For a full script, click here.

Comments

[Matt]

This is really cool, man! When was it recorded? Where was it done?

[Paul Mullin]

Matt, it was recorded in 2001 in Los Angeles especially for posting at this site: http://www.virtualtheatre.org/.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[Bill Salyers]

Glad you like it, Matt.
Specifically, it was recorded in my basement apartment at 1241 Westerly Terrace in Los Angeles, on a crappy pair of low-end mics going into a tiny Behringer mixer I had purchased for the occasion, then pumped into a Creative Nomad Jukebox MP3 player/recorder. We regularly had to unplug my refrigerator and wait for traffic to slow on Sunset to get a take.
The only things high-end about "Crossing" were the excellent performances from the actors and the brilliant foley engineering done by Peter Carlstedt in the wee, wee hours at the otherwise closed Nickelodeon studios on La Brea. Oh, and Paul Mullin's fabulous script, of course.