Jonathan Frid Plays Magda!

[Nancy]

I have a very rare item that was initially an audiotape and was transferred onto a CD.  This 44 minute recording are snippets from Jonathan Frid rehearsing lines for "Dark Shadows" back in the day.  He used audiotapes to tape the lines of other characters (he playing those characters) and left blank space enough in between for where his lines would go.  You get to hear him play Magda and Nathan Forbes and there is a section where he is running lines with Roger Davis. You hear the pages of the scripts turning.  JF evidently used this tape quite a bit so there are different time periods of the show here in snippets.  It's a fun recording.

Also, the radio commercial spots for House of Dark Shadows are on the CD.  I am listing it on ebay for $20.00 including first class shipping.  You can buy it directly from me by sending me an email for money order information or go directly to Paypal.  The email addy to use for that is redceltt@aol.com.

Ships within a week of purchase.

[Gothick]

Oh. My. GODS.

Frid plays Magda??? This, I HAVE to hear!

Thanks for the listing, Nancy!

cheers, Steve

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Frid plays Magda??? This, I HAVE to hear!

Indeed! But is each individual section a separate track? Certain fans would probably love it if they could just skip over the RD portion altogether. 

[Nancy]

I don't know, MB. I didn't try that since JF reads with Roger Davis. It wasn't that long as I recall.  Fans will recognize some of the dialogue throughout.

Nancy

Frid plays Magda??? This, I HAVE to hear!

Indeed! But is each individual section a separate track? Certain fans would probably love it if they could just skip over the RD portion altogether. 

[adamsgirl]

How cool is that? Hey, I think it's worth more than $20 (just my two cents)!

[Nancy]

It is but I really don't like gouging other fans - the packaging is simple and there isn't any great expense copying the CD.   This is the CD I told you about the other night on the phone.

nancy

How cool is that? Hey, I think it's worth more than $20 (just my two cents)!

[Sunny_Collins]

Nancy, thank you very much for posting this! 

[MagnusTrask]

All I can think is, JF could not have thought that fans in the year 2007 (back then it was always "the year 2000" etc., not just "2000") would be exchanging recordings of this possible cheap humble cassette he was rehearsing with.... 

[Gothick]

I had a horrifying revelation last night, thinking about this cassette... somewhere out there on tape there is, or at least used to be, passages where Mr. Frid was impersonating Julia.

I think I would crawl over broken glass in the alleyway behind Jacque's (a notorious tranny bar in Boston patronized mostly by married men from the outer surburbs)  to hear Mr. Frid hoasely intoning: "B-B-B-Barnabas!!!!"

G.

[Nancy]

You might be thinking of "the Genesis of Evil" program Frid did back in the early 1980s at some DS conventions.  He read DS fanfiction and also the scene between Barnabas and Julia where Barnabas was making nice to her after creating the ghost of Dr. Woodard to try and drive her crazy.  However, he played it straight.  No "B-B-B-Barnabas" or display of sharp, juxtapositioning elbows . . . .

nancy

I had a horrifying revelation last night, thinking about this cassette... somewhere out there on tape there is, or at least used to be, passages where Mr. Frid was impersonating Julia.

I think I would crawl over broken glass in the alleyway behind Jacque's (a notorious tranny bar in Boston patronized mostly by married men from the outer surburbs)  to hear Mr. Frid hoasely intoning: "B-B-B-Barnabas!!!!"