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Dial L for Latch-Key - Abridged by Scott Fivelson
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Dial L for Latch-Key - Abridged

The Radio Play

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Length 26 minutes
Language English
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She tried to dial M for murder, but instead she accidentally dialed L for latch-key…

A plotting husband who strongly resembles Ray Milland …

A framed wife as elegant as Grace Kelly …

An Inspector straight out of Monty Python

Hitchcock would be spinning in his grave if he weren’t suiting up for his cameo.

Suspenseful, witty, and romantic, this one-act play is a lively satire of the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Scott Fivelson is a playwright, screenwriter, author, and director whose short stories and satirical pieces have appeared in Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles magazine, the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Playboy, and Tales from the Heart of Hollywood.

His novel, Tuxes, a satire of the classic multigenerational rich-family saga, was published by BeachSide Press. He is also the author of a number of plays, including Dial L for Latch-Key and Leading the Witness, and coauthor of a noir detective novella, Johnny Passe.

Dial L for Latch-Key has been performed onstage in London, San Francisco, Toronto, and elsewhere. The audiobook version, Dial L for Latch-Key: The Radio Play, is distributed by Blackstone Audio, which also distributes his audiobook, A Farewell to Legs, a humorous homage to Ernest Hemingway, read by Mariel Hemingway. Dial L for Latch-Key: The Radio Play was selected as the opening presentation at the Second Annual HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction & Arts Festival.

His film, American Reel, a comedy/drama about the music business, stars David Carradine, Michael Maloney, and Mariel Hemingway and features songs written and performed by David Carradine.

Fivelson won the Best Screenwriter Award at the 2014 Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles for the film 3 Holes and a Smoking Gun, and two years later, he won the Breakthrough Director Spotlight award at the 2016 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival for the film Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story, starring Lenny Von Dohlen as legendary director Oskar Knight.

The By the Time I Get to Tucson Players are Phil Gordon, Douglas Grant, Jesus Limon, Colleen Zandbergen, and Brian Levario.

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Reviews

“A cheeky take on Dial M for Murder, stuffed with more Britishisms than the British and making fun of the very form itself.”

“A modern self-aware irreverence.”

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