Meg and her Mom Sandra are heading to Detroit to do a little cross-border shopping, and take in a Tigers game. However, Sandra’s passport has expired and they are turned back at the border. An odd encounter on the Windsor waterfront leads them into a wild night of time-travel, rum-smuggling, a near-drowning, hijackers, customs officials thirsty for bribes, and a chance encounter with controversial baseball legend Ty Cobb. The sound effects and music will take you from the present back to the 1920s; a time when ‘heading for the wild west’ meant sneaking into Michigan with a boatload of Canadian contraband.
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Runtime: 35:00 Minutes / MP3 Digital Download
Also Released on AUDIBLE – January 13, 2015
PUBLISHER: Design Sound Productions / Blackstone Publishing
Performance ©2010 Design Sound Productions / Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre
Cast
NOELLE DUPUIS as Sandra, MICHELLE MAINWARING as Amber, BOB TELFER as Walt, CHERI SCRATCH-LAPAIN as the Customs Agent and Tim Hortons Drive-Thru Voice, KEITH BURNETTas Gord and Dad, JASON GALE as Gordie and Ty Cobb, and introducing RACHEL MUHARREM as Meg.
Written by: Dave Carley
Directed by: Pat Gough and David Farquhar
NOELLE DUPUIS as Sandra (The Mom)
Reviews
RUNNING TO DETROIT premiered on CFCO 92.9 FM/630 AM Chatham, Ontario on July 17, 2010.
“I had a chance to listen to the show last night – it’s wonderful! I think it held together really well;… it just clipped along and was engaging throughout. I thought the transitions from scene to scene worked really well – it was always easy to tell where we were, and when a change had occurred, which is one of the toughest areas to solve in radio drama. The acting was great – loved the performances. I won’t center anyone out in particular, though I really appreciated the nice rapport your Meg and Sandra had, and you certainly picked your Meg well! The others were all terrific too, with great humorous cameos. -Dave Carley Senior Writer/Script Editor – CBC Radio National Programming Toronto
Well done David! I heard good things about the (radio) broadcast from Saturday afternoon (July 17th). –Lesley Grand, Director CK on the Edge Summer Arts Festival 2010 Committee
“Thanks for the Notice; I got a chance to listen to Running to Detroit and LOVED it! Very well done!” –Dex Trenchcoat, Editor – The Listening Post
“The voice acting is well done and is definitely a story to check out.” -Kenneth Jarman, Audio Drama Examiner
RUNNING TO DETROIT was featured on The Sonic Society Broadcast/Podcast hosted by Jack Ward and David Ault on CKDU 88.1 FM Halifax, Nova Scotia.
RUNNING TO DETROIT was featured on the radio drama program Sound Affects: A Radio Playground hosted by Jerry Stearns on Public Radio Station KFAI 90.3 FM Minneapolis and 106.7 FM St. Paul, Minnesota