Season 6.5, Episode 1: "Lady Victoria Ramsey and the Sands of the Pharoah!'" A Thrilling Adventure of Written and Directed by Ryan Cassavaugh! Victorian adventurer Lady Victoria Ramsey retruns with her cohorts on a quest to discover a lost ancient Eyptian tomb! Officially deceased and not allowed to return home ot England, Lady Ramsey has been tasked by the Royal Geographical Society at the request of the Queen to assist Dr. Sarah Hayden-Carter in following a mysterious parchment to lost tomb of Ankhaten -- while trying to voil Professor Evangelyne Goodall in her quest to awaken an anchient god! Featuring: Sadie Cassavaugh, RIchard Dunbar, Cate Ludin, Ryan Lawrence Flynn, Harry Jahnke, Leyla Osman, and Pol Lovett! Live sound effects by Kyle Suta and Liam Mayer! Original music composed and performed by Deborah Schuer! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's historic Ellen Theatre on October 8, 2016! We apologize for the less-than stellar audio quality of this particular episode -- though not up to our usual standards, we wanted you to be able to experience this once-in-a-lifetime performance and hope that it will prove diverting and entertaining despite its technical limitations!

Don't Close Your Eyes: Live Radio Theatre!

Lady Victoria Ramsey and the Sands of the Pharaoh!

Season 6, Episode 7: "The Road to H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks!" A Road Comedy to Hell and Back Written and Directed by Ryan Cassavaugh & Keith Suta! Our rousing Season 6 finale finds Keith and Ryan returning as their comedic dopplegangers: Keith and Ryan! This time, the duo have found themselves on a quest to return a book to a far off library -- the only problems are: (1) the book is a talking smart aleck; and (2) the book needs to be returned to the fires of... Y'know... Down there. Along the way they'll encounter demons, monsters, and that most mythical and magical of occurrences: an open bar! Featuring: Ryan Cassavaugh as Ryan; Keith Suta as Keith; Harry Jahnke as Belphmodeous the Inconvenient; Sarah Suta as Aunt Auntley, the Conductor, and Rusalka; Leyla Kirschner as Trixie, Hippolata Crinklesberg, Kumquateous Obelstein, and Charon; and Richard Dunbar as Virgil, Abraham Lincoln, Moobles, and the Gentleman! Live sound effects by Kyle Suta and Liam Mayer! Original music composed and performed by Garrett Robinson! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Verge Theater on July 23, 2016! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs (clearly)! All sound effects were analog and executed live by our fantastic performers!

The Road to H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks!

Season 6, Episode 6: "The Casebook of Prudence Pearly, Girl Reporter of the Old West: 'Trouble at the Bar-None Ranch!'" A Comedic Western Adventure of Written and Directed by Ryan Cassavaugh! Prudence Pearly is a go-getting, no-nonsese reporter with a nose for news -- but she's forced to write human interest fluff pieces instead of substantive political stories! After sneaking a big scoop into the paper, she and her friend, typesetter Barney Melchic, have been exiled to Montana to review that most horrifying of all occurrences: a community Shakespeare production! Along the way she'll run into an old friend, some new enemies, and the mysterious Masked Phantom! Featuring: Cate Ludin as Prudence Pearly and Button Gwinett; Harry Jahnke as Barney Melchic and Jonathan Harker; Taylor Jensen as Magdalena and Ben Franklin; Kari Doll as Black Bailey and Hippolata Crinklesberg; Leyla Kirschner as The Waco Kid and Alexander Hamilton; Ryan Cassavaugh as the Narrator; and Ryan Lawrence Flynn as Carriage Driver, Dutch Lutheran, Chief O'Bannon, Van Helson, The Masked Phantom, and the Narrator! Live sound effects by Kyle Suta and Liam Mayer! Original music composed and performed by Garrett Robinson! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Verge Theater on July 15, 2016! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs and minimal post-production on volume to try to make it comfortable to your ears! All sound effects were analog and executed live by our fantastic performers!

Prudence Pearly, Girl Reporter of the Old West: 'Trouble at the Bar-None Ranch!'

Season 6, Episode 5: "Tournament of Quizzards!" A Trivial Whodunit Written and Directed by Keith Suta! Ruby Kallen wants to be a great writer -- but all her plays have closed before they opened! To make ends meet, she writes trivial questions for the terrible but popular trivia program "Quizzards," hosted by her ex-, Gordon Clifton, and his Transistor-Reliant Intellegent Victor-Indicating Automoton (T.R.I.V.I.A. for short)! On the night of the very first Quizzards Tournament of Victors, the entire cash prize has been stolen! Now Ruby and Gordon have to find the thief while still making sure their live, coast-to-coast broadcast goes off with as few hitches as possible! Featuring: Sarah Suta as Ruby Kallen and a Hippolata Krinklesburg; Robert Dalton as Gordon Clifton; Kari Doll as Victoria Daily and the Reverend Mother; Randy Glynn as Professor Rememberer and Griffin Bergston the Third; Owen Burroughs as Vic Glass; Leyla Kirschner as T.R.I.V.I.A., Tori Trivium, and a Hippolata Krinklesberg, and Keith Suta as Mr. Announcer and the Condemned Man! Live sound effects by Kyle Suta and Liam Mayer! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Verge Theater on July 9, 2016! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs and minimal post-production on volume to try to make it comfortable to your ears! All sound effects were analog and executed live by our fantastic performers!

Tournament of Quizzards!

Season 6, Episode 4: "The Dark Hallway: The Knife!" A Story of Suspense Written and Directed by Ryan Cassavaugh! Mack and Jenny Heath are hosting Mack's old commanding officer, the Colonel, and his wife for a perfectly normal dinner party -- food, conversation, listening to music, maybe a game of charades -- like regular people do. But Mack has nightmares. Nightmares that have begun to intrude on his daily life; a secret from his past is waking up, threatening to ruin his world and drive him insane! Featuring: Keith Krutchkoff as Mack Heath; Joel Jahnke as The Colonel and Commercial Man John Q.; Heidi Kurtchkoff as Jenny Heath; Kathy Jahnke as Lotte and Commercial Woman Jane Q.; Ryan Cassavaugh as Louie and The Announcer; and Harry Jahnke as The Narrator, the Soldier, and William Howard Taft! Live sound effects by Kyle Suta and Liam Mayer! Musical arrangements and original music composed and performed by Garrett Robinson! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Verge Theater on July 2, 2016! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs and minimal post-production on volume to try to make it comfortable to your ears! All sound effects were analog and executed live by our fantastic performers!

The Dark Hallway: The Knife

Season 6, Episode 2: "Mystico the Magnificent Mentalist in 'The Mystery at St. Agnes' Home for Wayward Girls!'" An Adventure Tale Written and Directed by Ryan Cassavaugh! Mystico the Magnificent Mentalist and his crew of stalwart companions return in a new adventure! Lillian has witnessed a crime and goes to the only person who can help her; along the way she and Mystico will face organized crime, The Mad Monk, and more fearsome foes in the Boman Kahn! Featuring: Pol Llovet as Mystico and Officer Sanderson; Harry Jahnke as The Mad Monk, Police Officer, and the Announcer; Leyla Kirschner as Athena, Newspaper Reporter, Police Officer, Commercial Woman, and Jane Q.; Ryan Lawrence Flynn as Mr. B, Professor Darwin, Doc, and John Q.; Ryan Cassvaugh as Kermit Wolfe, Boone Tolliver, and Andrew Jackson; and Rosemary Cassavaugh as Lillian! Live sound effects by Kyle Suta and Liam Mayer! Original music composed and performed by Deboarah Schuerr! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Verge Theater on June 18, 2016! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs and minimal post-production on volume to try to make it comfortable to your ears! All sound effects were analog and executed live by our fantastic performers!

Mystico the Magnificent Mentalist in "The Mystery at St. Agnes' Home for Wayward Girls"

Season 6, Episode 1: "Foxglove Greens!" A Snobs-vs-Parvenus Comedy Written and Directed by Keith Suta! Foxglove Greens is Great Britain's most-exclusive golf course, having only one member, and serving primarly as a refuge for wild foxes and eccentrics like Lady Wethered. But when ruthless American real estate developer Fred McLeod comes to buy the entire village of Alderburgh, he finds himself engaged in a high-stakes game for the future of the course against a plucky university dropout, a constantly drunk Admiral, and his own son! It's the snobs versus the other snobs in this racous comedy with just a little bit of golf in it! Featuring: Leyla Kirschner as Rosalind Benjamin; Bennett Drozic as Craig McLeod and the Scientist; Kari Doll as Ella Theodore and Hippolata Crinklesburg; Sarah Suta as Lady Wethered and Tansy; Richard Dunbar as Fred McLeod and Mr. Hogan; and Keith Suta as the Admiral and Hubert! Live Sound Effects performed by Kyle Suta and Liam Meyer! Original music composed and performed by Garrett Robinson! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Verge Theater on June 11, 2016! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs and minimal post-production on volume to try to make it comfortable to your ears! All sound effects were analog and executed live by our fantastic performers!

Foxglove Greens!

Season 5, Episode 7: "The Road to Murder!" Written and Directed by Ryan Cassavaugh and Keith Suta! In our glorious Season 5 finale, Keith and Ryan hog spotlight and forego story for jokes, as their loveable reoccurring characters: Keith and Ryan! This time, our hapless heroes have bumbled into a scam posing as world-famous condiment designers -- and they're crashing the dinner party of "Hickory" Chicory, the richest sauce magnate in the world! But Chicory is under threat of a buyout from international interests and then, just as everything seemed funny, a mysterious set of sounds is heard and Chicory is dead! Keith and Ryan have to solve the case while keeping their identities secret -- but that's too much plot for these season-ending shows, so it's mostly a collection of gags and silly sounds! Featuring: Ryan Cassavaugh as Ryan; Keith Suta as Keith; Sadie Cassavaugh as Catherwood; Sarah Suta as Babette Molho; Leyla Kirschner as Himilsy Glossop; Richard Dunbar as "Hickory" Chicory; Ryan Lawrence Flynn as Bertram Chicory; and Harry Jahnke as Elias Kastike and Baldy the Eagle! Live Sound Effects performed by Kyle Suta! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Verge Theater on July 24, 2015! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs and minimal post-production on volume to try to make it comfortable to your ears! All sound effects were analog and executed live by our fantastic performers!

The Road to Murder!

Season 5, Episode 6: "Tales of the Bloody Bozeman" Written by Ryan Cassavaugh and directed by Sadie Cassavaugh! The Weston Family are homesteaders in Montana, trying to hold onto their little piece of land and carve out a future -- if they can hold off Asa Bryson and his illegal attempts to steal their soil! It all comes to a head when mysterious stranger Gideon Murphy rides into town with an unexpected purpose. Secrets come out -- tragedy ensues. Travel back with us to the untamed past! Featuring: Ryan Lawrence Flynn as Gideon Murphy and Carl the Barender; Richard Dunbar as Neb Weston, Boone Helm, and Dave; Wren Goodman as Hope Weston; Harry Jahnke as Asa Bryson, Doc Morrison, and the Announcer; Arlen Guest as Jacob Weston and Marty; and Ben Guest as Noah Weston! Live Sound Effects performed by Kyle Suta and Ty Gardner! Music written and recorded by Oxide! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Verge Theater on July 18, 2015! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs and minimal post-production on volume to try to make it comfortable to your ears! All sound effects were analog and executed live by our fantastic performers!

Tales of the Bloody Bozeman

Season 5, Episode 5: "The Contest of the Cosmos, or How Divinia von Presterton and Lord Tiberius Q. Braithwaite Defeated Invaders from Another Planet!!" A Steampunk Galimaufrey written and directed by Keith Suta! 1901: Divinia von Presterton and Lord Tiberius Q. Braithwaite are assisting their friend, Nikola Tesla, in his latest experiment -- beaming messages into space! Unfortunately, the recipients found the messages a little TOO inviting. Soon, someone has landed in New Jersey and only Divinia holds the key to saving humankind -- or so says renowned psychic Victoria Woodhull! To save the day, she will need the help of her father (though he's only a brain in a jar), Tesla, Tiberius, and re-zombified Benjamin Franklin to save the Earth from invaders from Mars! Featuring: Sarah Suta as Divinia von Presterton; Robert Dalton as Lord Tiberius Q. Braithwaite; Ryan Lawrence Flynn as Nikola Tesla and Benjamin Franklin; Sadie Cassavaugh as Victoria Woodhull and Carrie Nation; Christian McDaniel as Henry Ford, Preston von Presterton, and the Martian; and Keith Suta as Thomas Edison and Mr. Announcer! Live Sound Effects performed by Kyle Suta and Sadie Cassavaugh! Music written and performed by Scott Parsons, remixed by Keith Suta! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Verge Theater on July 11, 2015! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs and minimal post-production on volume to try to make it comfortable to your ears! All sound effects were analog and executed live by our fantastic performers!

The Contest of the Cosmos, or How Divinia von Presterton and Lord Tiberius Q. Braithwaite Defeated Invaders from Another Planet!

Season 5, Episode 4: "Old Glory vs. The World of Tomorrow!" A Four-Star Hero Comic on the Radio written and directed by Ryan Cassavaugh! In 1932 Commander American Flag and the Freedom Squadron of America were the greatest superheros in the world -- but by 1964, times had changed. Super-Villains were no more, there was a New Freedom Squadron keeping the city of Megalopolis safe, and television was replacing radio as the dominant for of entertainment. What is left for a retired crime fighter with a bad back and a heart problem? Not much -- until a mysterious millionaire decides to tear down their old Freedom Lair to put in a TV tower! Is some nefarious plan at work, or has the world just forgotten about the golden age of superheroes? Find out in this weeks thrilling story! Featuring: Pol Llovet as Old Glory, Charlie, and Enchanted Lamp; Leyla Kirschner as Lady Liberty, June Everett, and Kid Speedy; Ryan Lawrence Flynn as The Great Auk, Magic Lantern, and Mayor Applegate; Harry Jahnke as Professor Thinktank, Joe, Mayor Grimpt, Liberty Lad, and Liberty Man; and RIchard Dunbar as the New Commander American Flag, Mr. Mystery, and the Announcer! Live Sound Effects performed by Wren Goodman and Kyle Suta! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Verge Theater on June 27, 2015! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs and minimal post-production on volume to try to make it comfortable to your ears! All sound effects were analog and executed live by our fantastic performers!

Old Glory vs. The World of Tomorrow!

Season 5, Episode 3: "Jimmy Ackerman: Monsterologist!" A Scary Coming-of-Age Tale written and directed by Keith Suta! Jimmy Ackerman is like any kid in New York during WWII: His dad is overseas fighting; his mom works at a munitions plant; and he's got to do his dad's job as superintendant of a small tenement filled with... interesting folks. Jimmy escapes into the exciting and spooky adventures of Doctor Aberrant -- wanting to grow up to be a Monsterologist, just like his radio hero! His friend Cordelia (who is definitely NOT his babysitter) tells him that monsters are all made-up. Until those holes appear in the walls... Until people in the building start dying... Until Jimmy must face a monster. Featuring: Owen Burroughs as Jimmy Ackerman; Leyla Kirschner as Cordelia Loomis; Wren Goodman as Shelly Ackerman and Delfina; Harry Jahnke as Doctor Aberrant, Mrs. Cooger, and Mr. Loomis; Ryan Lawrence Flynn as Delbert, The Operator, Mr. Bachmann, and Detective Murdoch; and Keith Suta as Mr. Announcer! Theremin and Live Sound Effects performed by Kyle Suta and Sarah Suta! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Verge Theater on June 20, 2015! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs and minimal post-production on volume to try to make it comfortable to your ears! All sound effects were analog and executed live by our fantastic performers!

Jimmy Ackerman: Monsterologist!

Season 5, Episode 2: "Lady Victoria Ramsey and the King of Skull Island!" A Thrilling Adventure written and directed by Ryan Cassavaugh! Presumed dead, but merely avoiding her humdrum existence back in England, Lady Victoria Ramsey always seems to find adventure! Or, more to the point, adventure always seems to find her! The Royal Geographical Society has tracked her down and brought her a mission she cannot refuse: finding Prince Leopold, lost on an expedition to the fabled Skull Island! Soon, she and a ragtag group of adventurers are off to the deepest jungle to rescue the prince, and confront its ancient god king! Featuring: Sadie Cassavaugh as Lady Victoria Ramsey and Mrs. Jones; Richard Dunbar as Charles Marsden-Smythe, the Sailor, and Kong; Leyla Kirschner as Manjula, Nana, and the Announcer; and Ryan Lawrence Flynn as Tana, Prince Leopold, Demitri, the Beggar, and the Commercial Shopkeep! Live sound effects performed by Wren Goodman and Kyle Suta! Music written and performed by Deborah Schuerr! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Verge Theater on June 13, 2015! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs and minimal post-production on volume to try to make it comfortable to your ears! All sound effects were analog and executed live by our fantastic performers!

Lady Victoria Ramsey and the King of Skull Island!

Season 5, Episode 1: "The Not-So-Great Zambronski!" A Sleight-of-Heart Comedy written and directed by Keith Suta! Maria Tura has had enough -- relegated to the thankless role of "lovely assistant" to her unappreciative and philandering husband Joseph, she quits the act and her marriage and strikes off to become "The Great Zambronski" in her own right. She can make up the tricks, but there's never been a sucessful female stage illusionist before -- while she and Joseph flounder as solos, Maria meets Fey, a skittish and awkward young woman who possesses REAL MAGIC. Convincing Fey to be her lovely assistant, Maria tricks an audience like never before -- and soon she will win the coveted Golden Wand Competition of stage magicians! But will it turn her into the very thing she left in the first place? Featuring: Sadie Cassavaugh as The Great Zambronski, Jenny Everygirl, and the Wife; Todd Hoberecht as The Great Zambronski, Colonel Desiccant, and the Husband; Sarah Suta as Fey; Pol Llovet as the Stage Manager, Carmen, Morty, Fteven, Sir, Emulso, and Wah; and Keith Suta as the Geezer, Sigurd, and Mr. Announcer! Sound effects performed by Wren Goodman and Kyle Suta! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Verge Theater on June 7, 2015! What you hear is what the audience heard with no overdubs and minimal post-production on volume to try to make it comfortable to your ears! All sound effects were analog and executed live by our fantastic performers!

The Not-So-Great Zambronski!

Season 4, Episode 7: The Road to the Big T.O.P.! A Road Comedy Written and Directed by Ryan Cassavaugh and Keith Suta! Ryan and Keith return as the characters they were born to play: Ryan and Keith, failed soup salesmen and ne'er do wells! After finding out they have inherited a circus from a dead relative, they also find out they have inherited its debts! The only way to save the show from the evil Malefactora Califf is to head to the annual Tournament of Performers and wow the audience with a never-before-attempted, entirely too elaborate stunt! Comedic chaos and silly noises abound in our fourth season finale! Featured cast: Keith Suta, Ryan Cassavaugh, Sadie Cassavaugh, Sarah Suta, Ryan Lawrence Flynn, Marya Llovet, Pol Llovet, and Christian McDaniel! Sound effects and music by Wren Goodman and Marya Llovet! Recorded live at Bozeman, Montana's Equinox Theatre (now known as the Verge Theater) on July 26, 2014! What you hear is what the audience heard that night with no overdubs and minimal post-production to try to make it comfortable to your ears!

The Road to the Big T.O.P.!

Don't Close Your Eyes is Montana's longest-running and most-popular live radio theatre presentation! Each week during the summer, writer/directors Ryan Cassavaugh and Keith Suta take turns writing and presenting a brand-new one-hour play in a variety of genres from the golden age of radio! Since 2011, DCYE has produced weekly radio plays all summer long at Bozeman's Verge Theater! Each new play is written in just one week previous in order to recreate the vibrant energy and demands of live radio! The genres are as wide-ranging as the schedule is tight: sci-fi, comedy, western, thriller, comedy, and more! Presented live on stage with multi-voiced casts and entirely analog sound effects, DCYE is a unique and original anthology production that the whole family can enjoy! If you want to keep up with all our future live productions, please "like" us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/dcyeradio) and follow us on twitter (@dcyeradio)!

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