The Ransom

Tim Brosnan and Buren Martin in the 1999 Workshop Theatre (Columbia, SC) production of "The Woman In Black." — Tim Brosnan and Buren Martin in the 1999 Workshop Theatre (Columbia, SC) production of “The Woman In Black.”

The more-or-less first show I ever wrote is being performed at a retirement community in Greenville this August 15. It’s a variation on a 45-minute adaptation of The Ransom of Red Chief that I set to music in 1992 and called The Ransom. Its first incarnation was a school tour built around 4 professional actors who’d train student performers at each host school to play the scores of secondary roles that made the product so attractive to sponsors.

Since that time, the touring company owner, Buren Martin, has reworked the script into something he can perform with his wife and two young children. The August 15 venue is called Rolling Green Village. I’ll probably go.

Pictured are Buren and me in a 1999 production of “The Woman In Black” produced by Workshop Theatre in Columbia, SC.