The Halloween Tree (Dramatization)
by Ray Bradbury
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Author: Ray BradburyReader: Jerry Robbins
Reader: The Colonial Radio Players
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Unabridged
Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN: 1433232162
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.
Book Reviews of The Halloween Tree (Dramatization)
Book Review: An excellent production!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is another triumph for Jerry Robbins and the Colonial Radio Theater. This is a third in a series of Ray Bradbury's books referred to as the "Green Town" stories. The other two are "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and "Dandelion Wine". I highly recommend all three but it is "The Halloween Tree" I'm reviewing right now.
This is a wonderful story for the family, but be forewarned it is a slightly morbid subject, but is handled in Bradbury & CRT's usual tasteful and entertaining manner. It is a wonderfully historical trip through time. J.T. Turner is fantastic as the narrator making you wonder if he isn't the author of the story himself relating it just for you. Jerry Robbins is the mysterious and slightly suspicious Mr. Moundshroud and does the part with an enthusiastic and marvelous creepy touch. Just the right balance of the bizarre and humorous.
Anastas Varinos(Pip), Matthew Scott-Robertson (Tom)and the other children sound like they've stepped right out of this Bradbury classic and really deliver 1st class performances. Mr. Jeffrey Gage gives us a soundtrack that sounds like it would be enjoyable on its own, and yet it never over powers the performances and, as all great soundtracks do, it lifts the story and moves it along at just the right pace.
If you are an audio drama buff or just a Bradbury buff add this to your collection. You'll find that Ray Bradbury's stories come alive when you step into this theater of the mind adaptation.
Enjoy!
Summary of The Halloween Tree (Dramatization)
Special indeed are holiday stories with the right mix of high spirits and subtle mystery to please both adults and children. In Ray Bradbury's classic The Halloween Tree, eight boys set out on a Halloween night and are led into the depths of the past by a tall, mysterious character named Moundshroud. Bradbury's lyrical prose whooshes along with the pell-mell rhythms of children running at night, screaming and laughing, and the reader is carried along by its sheer exuberance.Literature & Fiction Books
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