Nancy Barry, the Producing Director for the multiple award winning Interlakes Theatre Company, stops by the WKXL NH Unscripted studio to give all the details of their upcoming season. We talk show selection, casting selections, spotting talent, their Youth division, housing the company, difficulty in the industry with releasing some of the classic more well know plays, all of the bragging rights that the company deserves and (trust me) a whole lot more.

Time for NH Unscripted to get culcha-ed up!! Todays' WKXL NH Unscripted fascinating guest is Jane Cormier, host of the NH Talk Radio program Artful Living. What an incredible life. Jane gets to name drop big names that she had the privilege of either working with or coming into contact with as she wove her way through the opera world in Europe. And man, does she know her stuff and she was very gracious to keep it all on a level that I could understand. Opera isn’t my wheelhouse (unless we’re counting rock operas) and it was so refreshing to learn about it from someone that not only lived in it but lived in it at the top.

It was another One Hit Wonder Wednesday on the show Cail & Company LIVE. This month’s edition co-hosted by Ray Dudley of WKXL’s “New Hampshire Unscripted”. No script for this program just a chance to bring back some memories including a few hand picked novelty songs that climbed the charts in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s.

Today on WKXL NH Unscripted former restaurant owner turned author, Douglas Zechel aka KD Mason, drops by to talk about his writing journey. He’s been pretty much self taught for most of his writing career and I found that extremely intriguing. Now with 13 novels completed it was time to get the details about how he did it, his tenacity and some great stories about his characters and places he names in his books.

New York talent agent Albert Bramante (Bramante Artists) steps up to the plate on today’s WKXL NH Unscripted episode! Some of Alberts talents have appeared in Blue Bloods, FBI:SVU and on networks such as Netflix, hulu, Paramount+ and Comedy Central plus in commercials for Venmo, McDonalds, Spotify and UPS. Albert chats about what he looks for when accepting submissions and taking on new talent. His agency also handles talent for theater and voiceovers. Some nice inside baseball chat taking place here!

Continuing with a little bit of an insight into my life (and I do mean a little insight) I took the time today to showcase some very interesting songs that popped up in the 60’s & 70’s. Think Allan Sherman (Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh), Ray Stevens (The Streak), Jimmy Dean (Big Bad John), Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon (Way Down Yonder in New Orleans) and even The Archies (Sugar, Sugar). Plus One Tin Soldier, Clap for the Wolfman and a few more. I toss in some background info for most of them and get slightly nostalgic.

Bond. Jane Bond. Yup it’s time for WKXL and NH Unscripted to have a return visit with my good friend Daniel Siletti. This episode was a hoot to do!  Daniel and his crew have been crazy busy with their projects and I wanted to get caught up to speed on them. They’re in the 5th season of their series Doctor Who School Daze and 2nd season of their Jane Bond series. Seriously? 5 seasons of one and 2 seasons of the other? And that doesn’t count the CTV projects that they’re knee deep in! This turned out to be a hilarious episode (with special thanks to Andrew Gibson) and the time just flew by. Enjoy!

Time to get personal. Well, a little personal anyway. Today on WKXL's NH Unscripted we take a trip in the wayback machine to my high school years and a couple of songs that had an impact on me. I especially focus on two musical groups: Procol Harum and Marmalade. The 60’s and 70’s were both great times and brutal times socially. The Vietnam war, forced school integration, the Kent State shootings, Woodstock, etc. combined to produce a snapshot of life never to be reproduced. Enjoy.

WKXL & NH Unscripted question of the day: Can you imagine attempting a brand new career at the same time that most of us would just retire and walk off into the sunset? And what if that new field you’re jumping into is standup comedy? I have an incredible amount of respect for Doris Ballard who’s decided to do that very thing. Honestly, I don’t think I could handle the rejection, but, she’s out there hitting the circuit making folks laugh. God knows we need it lately. And, just because that doesn’t keep her busy enough she’s working on writing her memoirs. AND she’s wanting to produce a project that’s she’s secretly working on. Really Doris? I’m tired just writing up this blurb!!

Today’s WKXL NH Unscripted interview was with Paul Lussier and it’s one of those interviews that I enjoy to do so much. Paul has had an interesting (though late start) career and has managed to do what a lot of us try do. And that is work in multiple mediums. His resume is impressively full of work in film/video, television, commercials, theatre and now he’s touring venues as a one man musical band! Yeah, I’m jealous. Another great inspiring interview.