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NH Unscripted with Angèlica Forcier Rosenthal, Garrett Meyer, & Mackenzie Goodwin | Part 2
Well, as promised today we bring you part II of my interview with several members from the cast of Actors Cooperative Theatre’s productions of Cruel Intentions: The 90’s Musical stop by and give us a deep, deep dive into the show. Angelica Forcier Rosenthal (Kathryn Merteuil), Garrett Meyer (Sebastian Valmont) and Mackenzie Goodwin (Cecile Caldwell) continue to walk me through more the plays insane “Dantes Inferno” type levels of craziness. Six potential “couples”? Cocaine inside a crucifix? A celebrated death by taxi driver? What is going on here? And to top off the episode we get a sneak peek into their next seasons choice. It’s a play based on a movie that I had no idea was made into a stage production and ONLY ACT would be looking for it!!! The show goes up Aug. 2-11 at the MCTP Theatre at the North End Montessori School; 698 Beech St, Manchester and tickets can be bought at https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=191346
- Duration:
- 44m
- Broadcast on:
- 19 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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It is, huh, huh. This time. Really, why don't we go around the room one more time and just introduce ourselves since we're doing another episode here. Let's start with Mackenzie Slush Heather. I am Mackenzie Goodwin. I play Cecile Caldwell. Not Heather. Not Heather. Okay. I'm Angelica Rosenthal. You are. I play Catherine Mertoy. I am Garrett Meyer, and I play Sebastian Valmont. So, we spoke, if this comes out before the show goes up, why don't we give a quick overview? Garrett, you had a beautiful summary of what this production of Cruel Intentions is about. Why don't you regale us with that one more time? Yeah, so for folks who don't know what Cruel Intentions is all about, it is essentially a 90s musical that is based off of a 90s movie that itself was based off of an old, centuries-old French novel, Dangerous Liaisons. So, it's a great show about essentially two high schoolers that are entangled in the life of Manhattan Socialites who are very disillusioned with the world and enjoy playing games with other people. They're manipulators at heart. And so, my character, Sebastian, essentially decides to go on this one big conquest since he's gotten so bored with being around other normal people. He wants to go ahead and essentially get with this girl who is the new headmaster's daughter Annette is her name. And so, that brings out a whole lot of new emotions that he hasn't felt before as he starts to become interested in this person. And that is essentially what the big crux of this show is all about. - It's the path. We're watching him as he, he's on the hunt. - Oh yeah, yeah, a little creature in the wild. - That's what I, it's a good way of putting it out. - Yeah. - So, does the play just disintegrate? Does it just go like down and down and down and down in the dark places? - I think it starts with one web that becomes more complex and so it's like every web just starts kind of stacking on top and then it's like these characters who you didn't expect to ever have conversations who are now having relationships and it becomes very interwoven. - Is it well written? - It's extremely plot wise, well written. Dialogue wise, it is extremely 90s cheesy dialogue. It is almost verbatim, a lot of the lines from the movie. And as a child of the 90s, I forgot how really bizarre dialogue in that time was. - What do you say there's like catch phrases and stuff from the 90s that-- - Uh huh, I have a six star track reference. - Oh yeah, yeah you do, you want to drop it right here? - Sure, it's when I'm talking to my step brother about how he should pursue Mackenzie's character's a seal and my line is be her Captain Kirk Valmont and boldly go where no man has gone before. - Well, and does he take that to heart? - Well, I will say as an actor, it's very fun being on stage and really having to be grounded in the script and not break character when I have my co-actor Angelica with me saying that into my face. - Is that written into the script? - It is, yeah, oh yeah, and I have to sell it with so much passion that it's gonna convince him to go pursue her. - How do you keep a straight face there? - It's hard, I think the biggest note in that scene is you need to slow it down. I was like, I just want to get through this, like please. - So the note is they're wanting the audience to catch the reference. - You have to really milk it. Well, that whole section is me just trying to convince him in kind of a seductive way to pursue her on my behalf and it is special. I have some other, you have a Wizard of Oz reference. - I do, I do, I do break out the Dorothy, we're not in Kansas anymore, so really. - And I have a silly rabbit that is really in a-- - Sounds perfect. - Very serious part of the show. - It is, it's very, the dialogue is very interesting. It's not, it's a show that wants to be taken seriously and it is, at some point it's very serious but then it will break out these-- - Highly rooted in the '90s cheesy, can't be dialogue. - Exactly. - I mean you have-- - Yeah, I make a little song. - You have a song? - I do say icky a lot. - What? - I do? - But I personally say icky a lot so it's not that weird for me. - But I think in the Kenzie's character has a song that she makes up about our friendship. - So is this, do you, I don't, okay I'm gonna unfold this. (laughing) My brain is full. - I'll take your time. - Does, or do you think those references are in there unintentionally funny or where they put there to help kind of, 'cause it's dark. And so there are, they're trying to add some levity to it so it doesn't get quite so dark. - They were all, all those lines were in the movie. - Yeah, so that's-- - They were all originally there so-- - So they took them seriously. - I would argue that my lines and your lines are very seriously intended. - Yeah, the way that I see it personally, because I hope that the authors of the piece knew what they were doing when it comes to some of these lines because I think the '90s charm is that we as characters take what we're saying so seriously. We don't see any humor or irony in any of the words at all, but as audience members, you know, you have an inkling is, oh, this is a little weird. So I think it's, it helps because it's not to be taken so seriously by the audience, but we as characters are still living this reality. So it adds to that kind of charm in my opinion where it's can't be to us as the audience, but as characters, we're still very, very committed to this reality that we, you know, ground ourselves in. - And all that stuff in the '90s was that, you know, you go look at like an episode of like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the dialogue is that, and so it, to me, it's kind of this time capsule of the '90s. - Well, that was smartly written then when you think about that. - Yeah, well, and so Sarah Michelle Geller played my character in "Curl and Tensions" movie, and so, which was a very big change for her. - No, yeah. - In the '90s, but it is all in that same vein and especially I think Cecile's dialogue is very naturally of the '90s. - For good? - No, I know. - For better or for worse? - For accuracy of the character. - Okay, okay, yeah. - So what do you think the audience is gonna take away? At the end of it, when they go home, are they gonna be like, that was just so upbeat? Are they gonna be going home going, dude, I feel like killing myself, you know? - I don't know if it's that dark. - The wind surprised me, I've seen "Hand the God." - Oh, well, "Hand the God" is nothing. For me, Sebastian's death at the end is the best thing that can happen to anybody. He's the terrible person, he is abusing women throughout the show, he is a huge sexist, horrible person, and for me, the hero of the show is the taxi driver that hits him. And they do try to do this big redemption arc of he fell in love, so he's a good person, and I don't buy that. I think that if he had continued, he would have, in three weeks, been the same bad person he was. - From your lips, you said, him dying is the best thing that could ever happen to someone. - Mackenzie was 100% of my zod on that. - Oh, hang on, hang on, here's your dance shoes, we're tap-shoeing out to a break. You are listening to NHM's scripted, I am your host, Ray Dudley, and we are coming to you from the... Let's see, where are we? - My favorite Martian-like digs of the WKXL studios in Concord, 1450 AM 103.9 FM on your Sony Walkmans. 101.9 FM, few beautiful people in Manchester, and each talkradio.com is our URL. Yeah, we get a lot more to talk about, wouldn't think so, but we do. We'll be right back. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Ooh, baby, the bottom of this mine is a big, big man. You have found NHM's scripted, I am your Jimmy Dean-like host, Ray Dudley, and we are coming to you from Thee, my mother of the car-like digs of us. WKXL studios in Concord, 1450 AM 103.9 FM, all conquered based on your transistor radios. 101.9 FM in Manchester, NH talkradio.com is our URL, and we are still talking about cool intentions. The 90s musical happening when? - So the show is the weekend of August 2nd, it is the following weekend as well, through August 11th. It is going to be at the North End Montessori School in Manchester, and tickets can be bought on the Hatbox website, since we are partnering with both them and the Manchester Community Theatre players. - Does anybody know the Hatbox of the Hatbox URL? - Tapbox, nh.com.org.net.something. - I'll get back to you. - I'll have people who can do it. - I'll have people who can do it. (laughing) - So there are almost no redeeming characters in this production. Is that true? Are people going to be walking out and go, "I need a shower." - I would describe the show as everyone's horrible, the musical. - Yeah. - I think that is honestly like a fair description. - Who writes a play where nobody's likeable? - The French, dangerous liaisons. I think Mackenzie's character, and maybe a net too. - Yes, yes. - It's probably the most redeeming. I don't think your character is really out to get people. - No. - But she's still not clean. Is that what she's saying? - No, I don't know that I say that. She's the victim of what we're doing. - Okay, okay. - She's a textbook example of the type of person that my character Sebastian and Catherine go for. They're an innocent victim in all of this. - Naive. - Yeah. Naive doesn't really know the ways of the world like we think we do, and so as a result, she is often the comic relief. - And she also trusts us, and that's, I think, where your character is always not this horrible person that everybody else has to be. - Right. - Yeah. - So your character, Garrett, is just reprehensible. And your character, Angelica, is not quite reprehensible. - I'm not committing as many crimes as I think his character is. I think that my character's motivation of this inequality feminist vibe makes her a little better than him, because it's really, again, this, he can go do whatever he wants. He can go sleep with whoever he wants, and there's no repercussions, but if I do that, then my whole life is ruined because that's all the value I have as a woman in this time period. So though, I have to be on the side of my character, and I know your character deals mine a lot, and I would probably say that I'm also a very large villain in the show. I think that he is worse because he's doing it, because he can. - Do you think, in another world, where things a little bit different, would she be as evil as him? - Yes. - She would. - Yeah. - And just worse, or just like, I mean, there's something psychologically wrong with them, obviously. - I'm sure. We're just having fun. - No, having fun. - It's all one big game, you know? - It is, you know, life's a game, we play it. - Go ahead. - And I think because of societal strains and inequality, she can't be herself, and that oozes so much resentment against him and the other men in the show, that it becomes that she's destroying Cecile because of that. - Really? - Yeah. - Really, so the frustration of not being able to do what she really wants to do. - Just be yourself, to express yourself, because it's-- - Boisted on the-- - Look down upon, I mean, I have this great monologue at Garrett of like, you know, you get to do whatever you want, and if I do that, then I'm dumped for people like Cecile who are innocent and twits, and for me to be intelligent and confident and confident in my sexuality, that's so looked down upon, and I have to be Marcia Brady to be respected. And I think a lot of those themes still ring true today, maybe they're not as extreme as they were in the 90s, but when we look at it in the 90s, and I know Mackenzie and I talked about a lot of the sexism back then, it was so paramount that women's worth was very much being pure, and it was this purity culture thing, and guys were the complete opposite of how many people can you be in a relationship with, and then your, but the garbage is is, you guys are all in these relationships, who are you in relationships with, and you want these pure people, it's horrid. And I think Catherine is this really iconic feminist character, and though she comes off as a villain because of the time period she's in, I stand by a lot of what she has to say. - So you're defending what she-- - What she has to say. - Yeah. - Not necessarily what she does. - Correct. (laughs) - Two very distinct things. - Yeah, correct. - So are these like extreme, are they like an extreme character, like yours, Gary, and then on the other end, would it be Mackenzie who-- - I would say so. - Yeah, yeah, Mackenzie, what are you, so what's happening in your mind that's all the time all this is going on? - Yeah, well. - Wait, did you say you early, you play the cello in this? - I do, I do play the cello. - Please, please, tell me more about that. - Yeah, yeah, I was nervous, I am not very musically inclined when it comes to instruments, but Angelica is a cellist, and it got to a point where I was getting a little too good at playing the cello, and they had to dial it back. - Wait a minute, wait a minute, did you really just boast about that? - No, it's true, she's supposed to be really bad, and so I was like, oh, you know, we'll see what happens, and then I'm sitting and watching, and I'm like, I think she's too good. It's becoming like I can definitely recognize the song, no problem, she's like really confident in playing. - Oh my God, how long did you have to practice? - Well, a month, yeah. - I think we were working with the cello for about a month. - You went from zero to being them having to rein you back in in a month? - Yeah, I think what it was is I was just good at acting, like I knew how to play cello. It turned into just being fine at trauma. I wouldn't say it was good by any means, but I was certainly better than I was supposed to be. - It was a too good. - So what's your character, what's going on there? During all of this craziness, this whirlwind of the gravity of on one level, we were a huge situated, are you like the central point where everything like, they got to put you there to kind of let everything else go around you, and kind of give the calm of the storm? - Yeah, to an extent, I think for Cecile, she's nervous about going to this new high school. She's coming out of an environment that's very different, and she sees Catherine come in as this guiding light for her. - What's the age difference between the characters? - So I'm probably about 17 or 18, and she would be about 14 or 15. - Okay, okay. - So Catherine services this kind of guiding light, and Cecile Caesar is like her best friend. She's helping her like get ready for high school, and she's talking to her about boys. So she really trusts Catherine and falls into trusting her really quickly, and has no idea that Catherine maybe doesn't have the best intentions. - Oh, and Catherine is Cecile's first kiss. - Yes, Catherine is Cecile's first kiss. And then she, Catherine encourages Cecile to use Sebastian to get ready for her first boyfriend, who is court, Catherine's ex. So Cecile thinks that Catherine is doing this out of the kindness of her heart, and that's maybe not the truth. - Definitely not the truth. - Yeah. - Oh my God, there's so much happening. How do you keep it on? Well, obviously it's written. - We help each other a lot, so we keep it straight. I don't know how many times I've been like, here's your prop. I know you're about to go right back on. Here you go. We're helping each other. - Oh, there's quick changes like that. - So every scene is a different day. - It's a different day. - Me, especially Gary and I have a costume change every scene. - Okay, that... - It's the worst. (laughing) - It's a lot. - I've been through some quick costume changes. They're not fun at all. No. Are you like one of those who has to wear like multiple clothes in the area? - We can't because there's so many revealing costumes. - Yeah. - So, I mean, you were able to layer a couple. - Yeah. - But when it comes to him and I, we're also, the way they did it is wearing like suits. - Yeah. - I saw that. - Which is not normally how like teenagers would dress, but that is how they designed it. And like, you're in a turtleneck. It's the debt of summer. I feel for you sweetie. - Oh yeah. (laughing) - It comes across very preppy-ish. - Yes. - Preppy-ish. - It is a very preppy high school. - So I could kind of see where that would fit in. - I'm boarding high school. - Yeah, it's, yeah, it's... The details of the high school itself is unclear, but it is supposed to be this very affluent, you know, this is a private, rich people high school, you know. - And Mackenzie is our costume designer for the show, actually. - Really? - Congratulations. - A lot of, a lot of speaking. - Shellist, costume designer. - She does it all. - I know. - A woman of many talents. (laughing) - Do you, the theme is going to be a little bit disturbing for folks. And you said you have a warning that you will preface the play with. Is there something actually coming out and giving that warning, or is it in the, like, program? - So it's on all of the posters. - It is. - It's in the program. Normally, if it was just an ACT show, we wouldn't put that in the pre-show, but the hatbox does our pre-show, so I don't know that that'll be in there. - So how close are you working with Andrew? Is it, how is that working? - Me personally, not super close. Tom is probably working a lot closer with him, he's the producer, but... - Oh man. Okay, okay, okay. That's the music, we have to take a break, we have to. You are listening to NH Unscripted I Am. You're glad to be on a bed host, Ray Dudley. You are listening to us on your Sony Walkman. 1450 AM, I hope, a 103.9, I hope, in FM, in Concord. 101.9 FM for the beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, slow's and Manchester. NH.Radio.com is our URL, because yeah, we're cool and we have a URL. Talk to you a little bit more about that in a second. We're going somewhere else here, when we get back. Beep. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Whew. Dude, we are uncovering a lot here. Welcome back to NH Unscripted. Whew, it's not just me and my Bobby McGee, no sir. No sir, I am your Janice Joplin, my coach, Ray Dudley. You are listening to us, 1450 AM, 103.9 FM in Concord. 101.9 FM in Manchester. You know we love you down there, folks. NH.Radio.com is the URL. We thought we were done talking about cruel intentions. However, things have come up in the break. Other topics, so Garrett, you're a nasty, filthy, reprehensible character is, has now you told me has even another layer. - Oh yeah. - What is going on, man? - So my character Sebastian, we haven't talked about this in depth yet, but there are two other characters in this show, Blaine and Greg, who are men that are, are homosexual and they are, one of them is closeted. They are exploring what it means to be gay and what it means to come out. And then the other one is very confident in who they are. They know, you know, they share a lot of characteristics with my character Sebastian in that we're very manipulative. People that enjoy playing around with other people. So in that sense, the character Blaine gets some kind of satisfaction with playing around with Greg, who is not openly out yet and is still exploring around. So my character, in one of his very classy acts, decides to blackmail Greg, who is still closeted, to basically threaten to say, hey, you know, I know your secret, I'm gonna go public, unless you tell me, and this is all just one big-- - You're down playing this a lot. - Whoa, you're down playing this. You set up the two of them, a situation, Sebastian comes in, takes a bunch of pictures, Polaroids, so they're coming right out and then has them ready to go. This is not like, he's downplaying it, it's a rub. - Well, I'm just trying to keep it friendly. It's not, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, but yes. But yes, it is, it is, it's all one big piece that slots into this ever-changing web. So it's very, it's bad, it's bad. - He's almost reviling, yeah. - That's what I said, the hero is the taxi driver. - My God, we're starting to really, yeah. - Come around on that, my goodness. So this guy has no limits, he's literally unguarded. - Right, and I mean, that's one of the challenges, right? Because this character is so deplorable in what he does, and trying to find that one little piece of him that is grounded in, with his relationship with Annette, the headmaster's daughter, who he does, or at least he thinks he does genuinely start to have feelings for, which he really has never had in this girl. And so he's trying to figure out what that means for him in trying to be with this girl that he initially was just going to manipulate and just another girl that he would use and get rid of. So it's trying to find that balance, which is very, very tough for a character like this who is outwardly just so awful, right? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, well, I think the other thing we haven't mentioned is that he journals and documents everything he does. - Yeah, what? - And so that's what-- - Wait, he's keeping records for all that he has done? - Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah, he has a little diary, and at the end of the show, after he's died, Mackenzie's character Cecile hands copies out so that everybody sees it. That's kind of how my character gets taken down because there's a lot about my character in his diary or his journal, I should say, but this is all well-documented and then released at the end of the show. - Oh, my God. - Yeah. - He's a psychopath. He's a psychopath. - Yeah, apparently. But he finally gets on this upward arch a bit and then the taxi driver comes in. - Right, and I mean-- - Thank God. - And it's difficult, right? Because separating a little bit fiction from reality, we know that this guy is just awful and terrible, but I think it's interesting to an audience trying to find that, those, like I was mentioning in the other episode, trying to find those moments of seriousness, of genuine reflection of, maybe this is not who I want to be, because we do have occasional moments where I am coming up to your character, Angelica, and confronting her about, hey, we're trying to destroy Mackenzie's character. Who is this innocent girl? This, this isn't right, you know? - And my response is, if you don't do it, somebody else will do it. - Are you serious? - That is my response. If you don't help me, someone else will. - Right. - And then that's enough to convince him to go, all right, I'll do it. - Okay, well, I guess I will. Yeah, so yeah, again, so I'm not trying to say that this guy is, you know, a saint, obviously he isn't-- - Oh, thank you for that. - No, no, no, no, just a little lower than a saint. - Very, very well publicly disavowed, no, no, no, no, no, that's why we're trying to separate that fiction and stuff, but yeah, it's finding those moments that I think is really interesting for our characters. - Well, and I think in this time, being gay openly in the 90s was just not a thing that you would do, and I think that's what separates me from some of the younger cast, or I'm like, oh, this was like a big thing, of like, you don't want to come out because you were going to be a target and people were going to bully you, and I mean, you look at Matthew Shepard and things that happened around that time here, you did not want to come out, and so for him to be black mailing this football player, you do what I want, or I'm going to tell everyone you're gay, it's horrid, and it's just, it's so, the culture's changed so much now, but in that time capsule, it's bad, it's terrible. - You end up actually blackmailing, does it work? - No, I don't think I publicly-- - You don't, you blackmail him. - I do blackmail him, I don't think I come out and reveal the pictures or whatnot, but yes, no, absolutely-- - But that's not true because it's revealed in your journal. - That's true, that's true, but by that point-- - And not that your character necessarily revealed that, but it is revealed-- - True, but yes, but it's documented, yeah. - Wow, so what is your character doing, Catherine? She is devious and manipulative and-- - Keeping records, I think, again, mine is motivated to take men down, so though I don't really condone destroying the other woman, I am very much for destroying the person who's wrong to you. She is kind of going that route. I'm gonna destroy court, my ex-boyfriend, through Cecile and that'll ruin him because that's just kind of the way she feels like she has to do it because otherwise, if she goes straight after her ex, they're gonna know it was her, but she goes after Cecile, then it's a little hard to trace. I think she's smarter than him. I think she works things out, smarter than Sebastian. She protects herself more than he does, but she also has a cocaine problem. - Good god almighty. - So I have a rosary that is a cross that opens up to a spoon, and so that's used throughout the show, and again, it's just showing that rich people have a different set of rules, and we kind of play our own game versus everybody else. - So he will destroy someone just randomly, any random person. - Oh sure. - Does she do it only if she has like a real motivation? - It seems that way. - Yeah. - That she doesn't seem to go after people randomly. - Yeah. - It seems like if there's a cause, she will do it. Otherwise, again, it's she has to be the popular student body president, and I have to put this Mary Sunshine vibe on to be respected as a woman, so why would I get sloppy like that? But he can get away with doing that. - So does your character, Mackenzie, come out, come out like, do you survive all of this? She's setting you up to destroy you. Do you survive that? - I think so. I, Cecile definitely ends up happy and-- - Because she's just icky. (laughing) - Because, I mean, she's definitely manipulated and her reputation had the potential to be tarnished by-- - Does she ever catch on? - I don't think she catches on, and so-- - Ever in the play? - Well, Annette gives Cecile the journal, Sebastian's journal. - Got ya. - And I think that's when the picture kind of becomes clearer for Cecile, and then when she distributes it, she has a nice moment with Katherine, where she kind of sticks it back at her, like, I know what you did and points me to the journal. - So, but there's no revenge in that, right? You just let her know that you know-- - If the show went on, there may be. - Yeah? - But where the show stops, no, not yet. I think there's implication that this is-- - The Katherine and the making? - No, no, no, no, no, no. I think that it's like the world is a better place without him, and the world is a better place without the power I have. - Wow. Okay, okay, okay, I'm not gonna digest. - But yeah, I'm probably not gonna sleep for a couple of days. - Wait, do you see it? - Yeah, I'm not so sure, I really want to sleep though. (laughing) Yes, I would love to see it. So, what else are you guys doing? I mean, is this a hand? Is this it for the summer for you guys, or? I mean-- - So this is ACT's-- - You're some of the busiest people I know. You really are, I mean, you don't seem to ever stop. - You know, I'll stop when I'm dead, or when a taxi hits me. - Or, same result, you know? - I will say, I don't understand, but the taxi's going real slow. Take us out, take us out. (laughing) - Oh, hang on there, hang on, sloopy, sloopy, hang on. Whew, you are listening to NH Unscripted and Mother. God have we covered a lot of territory. You have been listening to us, hopefully we'll continue here as we come back to 1450 AM, 103.9 FM in Concord 101.9 FM for the beautiful souls and Manchester NH.Radio.com. It's the URL. Yeah, yeah, time to get a little diverge. We'll be right back. (upbeat music) Whew, whew, all right. Took a shower after that discussion. We are back. Well, listening to NH Unscripted. I am here. Happy to be out of the home, host Ray Dudley. Let me out once in a while. I kind of sneak up between the Jello and the Applesauce. 1450 AM, 103.9 FM in Concord, 101.9 FM for the beautiful souls and Manchester NH.Radio.com is the URL. And you know what goes on out there? There's a button. We can listen live to this show, or whatever other show you happen to wake up at 3 AM in the morning and need to listen to it. Just push that button. I don't even know what goes on at 3 AM. What is it, opera out there at 3 AM? I have no idea. Anyway, also out there, you can find archives of this tremendous show and all the other programs that take place here at the studios. They're all, all out there. For you and the drunken stupor to listen to. Anyway, the cast of cruel intentions, some of them are in the house and we're going to take a little diversion. What are y'all doing for the rest of the summer towards the end of the year? I'm busy and I'm old. What are you guys doing? I think we've gone too hard, too long. Yeah. We're taking a little break soon, but right now I'm working on Adam's family, the musical. Who's doing that? Kids' Coop Theatre. So it is with the children. It's the kids' version. No, it's the full version. What? That's going up July 26th through 28th at the Dairy Opera House. And this is the first show that Kids' Coop will be competing with the New Hampshire Theatre Awards. They've never been part of it before. No. You know, the adult side has done it and I think finally they're ready to let the kids try one and see how it goes. And it's a really talented cast. I think my youngest is 10. He's playing pugsly and he's adorable. He's the cutest. Brady Harlow is playing pugsly. Cute is a button. It's super duper talented. And then my oldest, it goes up to 19, so. And how's the show going? Fantastic. Fantastic. I'm not a big fan of the show, personally. I like the concept. I'm not a big fan of Andrew Lipa and his music. But the kids are really rising to the occasion and they're taking it real seriously. And I think they know that, you know, never competed a show before. So they're like, they're bringing it. Yeah. Do you understand the stakes here? I think so. I really do. And if I probably got three emails today, well, kids are at school going, hey, can I meet with you to go over this? And I have questions about, like, they're on it. They're advocating for themselves, and especially with how young they are. I'm pretty impressed, to be honest. So you have young kids playing like lurch? Oh, yeah. We've got some construction stilts for lurch. His head hits the scene right now. Oh, that's funny. That's funny. Yeah. OK. And so that's the kids. So the fun part of that is I have this week with cruel intentions. I go into Tech Week for Addams Family next week. On Sunday, I close Addams Family and we move cruel intentions in. Isn't that fun? It's what we live for, really. That's face it. Let's face it. It's all about the rush. It's all about the rush. Garrett, what are you up to? Yeah. I mean, I'm kind of in the camp where after cruel intentions closes, at least as far as I know right now, I'm taking a little bit of a breather just because I am-- I often work with "Uangelica" with a lot of the shows that we've done, so-- At Actor Singers. Yes, well, sometimes it has been. But yeah, with ACT and Actor Singers and a bunch of other groups that we-- And we were in a show at MAP as well. Yeah, exactly, and Wyndham, too. So it's like, it's a long ride, but it's a fun ride. And it very rarely stops. So this, right now, kind of looking at maybe a couple months break after cruel intentions, which we'll see, but breaks are not ever a bad thing for me, at least. So they really come from-- Yeah, they come around. So this is an intentional one, I mean-- Yeah, yeah. So I think that if there were something on the pipeline, then I probably would jump right in. I'm going to say, I do feel like if I was like-- So actually, in October, he'd be like, OK. No, such a-- I won't even go there. No, don't say anything. You can repeat on how far you'll go to do it in our ride. You've driven up to Lincoln to do shows. I have-- yeah, I have driven up to Lincoln. I think if I had to regularly go somewhere for a rehearsal, I think it would probably be 30 to 40 minutes is probably my limit. Yeah, the comfortable part. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Once we get past that, it's like, every day or every other day for rehearsal, Lincoln's a tough drive. I mean, it's just longer. It's just an hour on the highway. It's a beautiful drive, but it's a long one. Yeah, I know. I know. And Mackenzie, welcome. Welcome back to the conversation. So I, on the other hand, drive over an hour every time. And I have three years. Yes. For five years, I was up in Plymouth at school, and I would commute down an hour to an hour and a half to do these shows. Once you start working with Angelica, you can't stop. Oh, that's a little bit of a call to mentality. It's so cute. And I moved out of Plymouth, finally, but now I'm down on the seacoast, so it's still about an hour. I don't see-- like Portsmouth area is-- Oh, a little north. I'm up near Dover. Oh, my god. But it's fun. I would work elsewhere, but I just love doing it with my friends. Yeah? There's plenty of work out there, I'm sure. Yeah, oh, definitely. Yeah, yeah. I'm also headed for a bit of a break. But as Angelica said, if she was like, hey, we're doing this thing, I'd be like, OK, I'm there. I think I always think I'm going to take more breaks than I am, and then she'll bring something up. And I'm like, OK. Well, the last time I took a break, it lasted, I think, a week and a half. And then I sent on to fight direct. She kills monsters and Lowell and just didn't tell anyone. I was trying to keep it a secret because I knew everyone was like, you're going to take a break. And we'll see how long it lasts. I can't make any promises. So since they're all waiting to see what you're going to do next, the onus falls on you to let them know, what are they going to be doing next? Yeah. Plans? Nothing for the rest of the year? I mean, I know what-- Technically, no, nothing for the rest of the year, as of right now, but that has not stopped me. Did six months left, five months left. Is there? I think so. If you really look at this September-- Yeah, yeah. That can't be. I know I have a show in March going up, and that's a mixture with the kids and the adults at KCT and ACT. That'll May audition before the new year, but we probably won't start till the new year. We think we did that with big. Yeah. We had auditioned before in December and then started in January after-- You will not go five months without doing so much. Probably not. Man, it's a huge time for people who like to perform. Yeah, five months? I don't like to perform. You have made that apparently the biggest conversation but the NHCTAs is something we normally do and we have been kind of putting off making a decision on. And I think it would be kind of foolish to not do it, but that would go up in September. And then I'm starting to work on the theater awards next year, I'm directing and choreographing. Ooh. That's a huge lift. There's so many people involved in it. It's a lot. It's a lot, but I think having more than two months to prep it this time will be better. Yeah. Because we, unfortunately, I signed on pretty late last year and it became a large undertaking. It's as large as it is. Much larger. And thankfully, Brian Halperin was a huge asset in helping me get what I needed and being a fantastic resource, which he sure didn't have to be. But thankfully was willing to be. And then I know it Garrett had performed and presented awards last time. So I'm sure that audition will be coming up soon, too. Yeah, I think, right. So when does that go up February or June? It's going up first week of February, yeah. OK, so yeah, you can't wait too long. I mean, they surely that would be towards the end of this year. Right. And Garrett, you're going up to Lincoln for guests? A ghostlight? Yeah, you know, I did enjoy my haunted house experience. I definitely would like to do it again. That's October. So that could be-- So that-- Give me a little bit of your monster chipping away now. Well, if that'll book me in October, then we'll find something in September, and we'll go back to the clock. I'd say normally December, we hard take off. Yeah. But with the theater awards, it was a little more challenging to do that. Are there things happening out there right now that you would like to get a chance to see? You have friends or any shows that are on the schedule? No? Yeah. Yes? My boyfriend is doing "Legly Blonde" down at Prescott Park in Portsmouth right now. OK. I 100% recommend everyone sees it. Have you seen it already? I've seen it four or five times. "Legly Blonde" is one of my favorite shows. It has a really special place in my heart. I was a sorority girl, and it's an excellent production. Plus, it's in the park. Like, you don't get any opportunities to see theater outdoors. Yeah, again, summertime. I love-- there's something about it, you know? And really, for me, it holds a very special place. I'm not sure why. I think just when I was younger, I would go to the North Shore Music Festival and theater. And they'd be doing musicals all the time, and you'd go outside tonight time. It's cool air. I don't know just something about summertime theater where it doesn't cut it in the fall and the winter. You know, it's harsh weather, and you're going out to do a favor, more or less, than just the show you want to see. Well, on top of that, Rose Chafee, who is playing our Blain Tuttle, is in Heathers with RGC at-- Heather's just warming up. Yeah, it's-- and they'll be in their second weekend next week, and we're all planning to go see it together as a cast, so-- Woo! Well, congratulations! We made it, part two of Cruel Intentions. Talk about that. You have been listening to NH Unscripted, mother of God. Now we've got to go out there and face the heat and the humidity. Welcome to summertime in New England. 1450 AM, 103.9 FM, those are conquered based on your Sony Walkman, 101.9 FM, for the beautiful souls and Manchester. NH TalkRadio.com is the URL. Folks, get out in summertime. Go have dinner, go see a play. I'm telling you, it's a life-changing experience. That's all I'm going to-- I'm not going to hammer you on it. Just go do it. [MUSIC PLAYING] (upbeat music) (upbeat music)