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The Old Cart Wrangler’s Saga: A Fully Blown, Full Length, Fully Baked Comic Monologue Audiobook
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We’ve all seen that lone shopping cart sitting on the edge of a parking lot. Who goes and gets it and brings it home? The cart wrangler, of course.
Brimming with easy humor, fantasy, and wisdom, David Ossman—of Firesign Theatre fame—gives the performance of a lifetime in this theatrical full-length monologue backed by a crack Kansas City jazz trio and recorded before a live audience at the Brick in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, on June 6, 2018.
Mixing voice, eclectic jazz, and sound effects, this performance breaks sound-art boundaries and may even break your heart.
Told in three parts:
1. Cart 437 or The Long Way Around
2. Cart 437 2.0
3. Cart 437 3.0 Potemkin
Includes a bonus interview with David Ossman and Brian Price
With Reverend Dwight Frizzell, woodwinds; Julia Thro, guitar; Patrick Alonzo Smith Conway, percussion; Tony Brewer, sound effects.
Executive producers: Judith Walcutt and Jerry Stearns
A production of Great Northern Audio Theatre and Otherworld Media
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“This audiobook is a live performance of David Ossman, formerly of The Firesign Theatre, telling the story of the old guy who made it his life’s work to collect stray shopping carts and bring them home. The humor comes from the zeal Ossman’s character has for his job, which he equates with the cowboys of centuries passed who wrangled stray cows. The three-part monologue is backed by a jazz trio and recorded live at The Brick in Kansas City. The subtle jazzy background with occasional sound effects carries listeners along with the story of an elderly man who takes his last job more seriously than anyone could imagine. The story is sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always intriguing.”
— AudioFile
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“Super funny!”
— Emily Solt McGee, actress and producer -
“I saw it live! Wonderful writing and a great performance.”
— Marjorie Van Halteren, That Tuesday podcast, Lille, France -
”That is the best thing I’ve heard in a loooong time! Takes a lot to impress me, but you did it. I can’t think of anyone better than David Ossman to perform this piece…And in front of a live audience. Oh yeah, and Dwight’s backing was so nice to hear, very fine indeed. I have to admit, it’s rare I listen to a piece all the way to the end, but you nailed me in the first minute…maybe seconds.”
— Tom Lopez, ZBS, Fort Edward, New York
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A 2019 Audie Award Finalist for Best Original Work
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About Brian Price
Brian Price has been working in audio theater and production for over thirty-five years. He has written, directed, and adapted for groups such as Native Voices at the Autry, the Grist Mill, and the National Audio Theatre Festivals. He and his Great Northern Audio Theatre partner, Jerry Stearns, wrote and produced eighteen years of the Mark Time Awards Radio Show and were awarded an Audie Award in 2017 for Best Audio Drama for their full-length drama In the Embers. They also hold a Norman Corwin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Audio Theater.
About David Ossman
David Ossman, narrator, writer, producer, and character actor, is a founding member of the legendary comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre, which has celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Funny, prophetic, and groundbreaking Firesign has had an incalculable influence on generations of comics and sound artists. Their album Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers has been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. With his wife and partner, Judith Walcutt, he continues to create audio magic through their production company Otherworld Media.