Sandra Oh is Snow White in 'Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You!'

Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You! is an audio drama starring Sandra Oh as Snow White, which is a new "adult, edgy, and not altogether serious" spin on the classic Grimm fairy tale by the award winning audio dramatist Yuri Rasovsky. [Read more here]

We've now got a clip from the audio book where Snow White (or Schnee/Schneewittschen used here) has a conversation with the huntsman (Jäger) about "learning the ways of love":

A note from the publisher about this production:

The beloved Snow White has been receiving a major makeover in the entertainment industry lately. With strong, female heroines taking center stage left and right in print and film, it seems only appropriate that the fairy tale princess gets to join in on the fun, too. Though her skin remains white as snow and hair black as night, you might as well say goodbye to the old damsel in distress and hello to the new Snow White—fiercest of them all. 

To shake things up, Blackstone added its own twist to the fairy tale in the exclusive dramatization, Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You! A full-cast production written, produced, and directed by Yuri Rasovsky, this pseudogothic fable is chock-full of adult content and edgy wit. With hilarious twists and a revamped dialogue, this grown-up fairy tale is both shocking and entertaining.

Other familiar voices in this dramatization are Sandra's former Grey's Anatomy co-star Kate Burton as the wicked stepmother, and The Big Bang Theory's Simon Helberg.

You can order your copy on Amazon.  

Sandra Oh In Audio Drama 'Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You!'

Sandra Oh is one of the performers in Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You!: A Very Grimm Tale, an audio drama by famed audio dramatist Yuri Rasovsky, set to be released on May 1, 2012. It is a new spin on the classic Snow White tale and here is the synopsis:

With the premiere of two new film versions of the Snow White tale, Blackstone enters the fray with its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast exposé of fairy-taledom. At last it can be told!  

Was Snow White really as pure as the driven snow? Did her allegedly wicked stepmother get a bum rap from the Grimm brothers? What went on behind the closed Dutch doors of the dwarves’ cottage? How many handsome princes does it take to screw in a light bulb? 

These and other burning questions may or may not be answered in this new pseudogothic audio play that Blackstone commissioned from award-winning author and audio dramatist Yuri Rasovsky.

Sandra Oh has worked with Rasovsky once before on his audiobook dramatisation of Dashiell Hammond's The Maltese Falcon, which has won several awards and received a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album. 

Sandra Oh as femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy in 'The Maltese Falcon'.

Sadly, Yuri Rasovsky passed away on Wednesday and Sandra Oh talked to the Chicago Sun-Times about working with him:

“Being introduced to [performing] radio plays through [Yuri] was like discovering a new fun planet,” Oh said in a text message. “I knew from the second we worked together that I had so much to learn from him. His understanding of the medium, of storytelling and trust in his actors was superlative. He was a great and generous teacher.”

Sandra Oh Guests CBC's Radio Talk Show "Q"

Sandra Oh will be a guest on the CBC radio talk show Q guest hosted by her former co-star and friend actor/director Don McKellar.

UPDATE 2: The complete interview is now available online so check it out here. (Click on the September 30 broadcast. Sandra's interview starts at the 25:50 minute mark and is about 20 minutes long.)

The broadcast starts at 10.00 AM ET so go here to listen to it live

UPDATE: Sandra's segment has just aired and here are some of the things she talked about:

• Acting: how she started out and her parents. Her acting career in Canada. 

• Being inducted into Canada's Walk Of Fame.

• A heated debate about being a celebrity and being famous.
(Err, Sandra must hate Sandra Oh News) 

• The challenges of being on a network show where the actors get the script just a few day in advance and playing the same character for seven years.

• Cristina's pregnancy storyline and abortion:

“It came to me as a surprise it wasn’t easy for me to shoot by the time we were deep in to the season and there ended up being lost of conflict it was really tough for me I prefer to know what’s coming.. But at that point it was too late .”

“Many women and girls follow this character and my focus was that the character of Cristina makes the decision to not have a child because she is not made to be a mother and the decision to have an abortion is difficult and effects her husband…”

- Transcript thanks to How We Operate:

Also:

Sandra Oh will be in episode 9 of Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays that airs on CBC. She plays a character called Judy Song who is a well-being coach. It's a well-written, funny character.

She has other projects in the works but doesn't want to talk about them not wanting to jinx them. This is one of those super-secret projects.

An Audie For 'The Maltese Falcon'

The Audie awards, which is an award for outstanding audiobooks and spoken word entertainment, announced the winners at a gala last week and The Maltese Falcon - with among others Sandra Oh, Michael Madsen and Edward Herrmann - won in the category for outstanding audio adaptation.

Here is a review of the adaptation, which was also nominated for a Grammy at this year's awards:

They’re all here—Sam Spade, the streetwise detective; the gorgeous but dangerous dame; the squirrelly guy; and the fat man—all chasing an elusive statue of a mythical bird across the most American of literary landscapes, fog-bound San Francisco in the 1920s. Few novels have been more “noir”—or more influential.

With fine talents like Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh, and Edward Herrmann, Blackstone Audio and the Hollywood Theater of the Ear have created a taut, well-paced audio production, drawn directly from the novel, first serialized in BLACK MASK MAGAZINE in 1929. All of Hammett's signature descriptions and stylish dialogue are at the forefront. Sexy, darkly comic, and broodingly moral, THE MALTESE FALCON is like a jolt of bourbon—it wakes you up and keeps you listening.

B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2010 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2009]

Mystery & Suspense • 3 hrs. • Audio Program • ©1957

Click here to hear a sample of Sandra in the role as "the irresistible and treacherous femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy".

On The Radio With Sandra Oh

Back in June 2009, Sandra Oh was the host for the Canadian radio show GO! where she presented The Gayest Music Of All Time. If you missed it the first time around, you can now download the entire show here.

Huge thanks to Carlithiel for sharing this.

Grammy Nomination For Sandra's Femme Fatale

Earlier this year we told you about Sandra Oh being one of the narrators of the audiobook dramatization of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon where Sandra plays the part of " the irresistible and treacherous femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy". A sample of the recording is available here.

The recording has won a few awards so far and today it was announced that it has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling). Here are the rest of the nominees in the same category:

• Always Looking Up, Michael J. Fox
  

• Jonathan Winters — A Very Special Time, Jonathan Winters (Music By Verne Langdon & Skip Edwards)
  

• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Richard Dreyfuss & David Strathairn
  

• The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett), Various Artists Including Michael Madsen, Sandra Oh, Edward Herrmann & Others. Yuri Rasovsky & Josh Stanton, producers
  

• We Can Have Peace In The Holy Land, Jimmy Carter
  

• Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher

The Grammy Awards will be broadcast on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010, on CBS.