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NH Unscripted with Dan Adams

Not sure how I haven’t had my friend Dan Adams on the show before, but, it’s time to correct that error in judgment!! He’s been a paramedic since 2003. Was a police officer in the early 2000’s. So his life was public safety before he needed to make a change and got into education. He went to college for News Reporting and Anchoring, had some job offers but didn’t want to move across the country. He had always wanted to be an actor. So started doing some community theater then took a break. Then got cast at the Weathervane. Then it took off from there. Oh yeah, we got all the juicy details.

Duration:
44m
Broadcast on:
28 Jun 2024
Audio Format:
mp3
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You don't bad self, ever. - Dude, I haven't seen you in a million years. - It's been a while, yeah. - It has been a while, huh? - Few years, yep. - Yeah, yeah, we were just talking a minute ago. I think the last time I saw you, you were practically dead up at Gene's Playhouse. We were doing the scary house thing there that goes like, and I see you one night, and you're shivering, and you're dying, and it's like cold as heck, and they're putting you outside in this little booth, and you're like, I can't do that. There's no reason to eat out of here. I had a space heater just wasn't doing the job yet. That was bad. - And then, he's gone. - I was gone, I was out for the count. - Dude, dude, it's so good to see you. - It's good to be here, thanks. - So good to see you. - Yeah. - Let's start with, let's get you a background, 'cause I do want to get into theater, because that's what I really like to do, like, to talk about. - Yeah. - How do we get there? What's your background here? And you said something more, you used to be a... EMT, you were... - I'm still a paramedic, yeah? - You are. - Yep, still? - I have my license, I just don't really practice. You know, it's kind of like dormant, but I do recertify it every two years. - You do? - Just in case, if I ever want to go back and do it. - Yeah. - How long has that been? - I got my paramedic in 2003. I was in EMT from '97, and then in EMT Intermediate, which is the next level up in '99, got my medic in 2003. - What? - So yeah, I worked in public safety for a number of years. You know, pretty much any job you can think of in public safety, I was doing it. Dispatch, you know, police officer, paramedic. - I had no idea. - Yeah, that was like my calling. - New Hampshire? - Yeah, so I'm from the North country. - Okay. - So I grew up in Gorham, but I was doing these jobs and so I was a cop in Lisbon in Woodstock. - But you were a cop too? - Yeah. - Yeah, and in Bethlehem, yeah. - Who is this guy? - Yeah, yeah. That was sort of like my calling. I like always been service oriented. - Public safety, kind of. - Yeah. - And so like I was a police explorer growing up, you know, up in Berlin, New Hampshire. - Yeah. - And you know, I just, I checked it out. It was, and I always wanted to do it. And then I went away to college, a job at Linden State College, which is now Vermont State University at Linden or something like that. But anyway, they had an ambulance on campus and I wasn't old enough to be a cop. And I'm like, well, I'll go check that out. So while I'm taking college classes, I took an EMT class and I'm like, I just want to drive. I just, you know, I just want to be a part of it. And then the next thing you know, I started liking that I was caring for patients and whatnot. And then I'm like, well, I want to advance my certification. And then I became an EMT intermediate, which was, you know, you starting to do like IV therapy and some medications and whatnot. And then I just found that I could make a living doing it. And then by that time I had graduated from Linden with my degrees in broadcast journalism. And I'm like, I don't really want to move across the country and make, you know, like a mediocre salary when I'm actually making more, working in public safety. - Yeah, yeah. - So that's kind of like the direction that I took. And I just was doing that for a wicked long time. - 20 years, 20, 20, how long? - Yeah, well, that's a long time. - Yeah, I would say that I brought up. - 97? - 97 I started. - Yep, and, but I really kind of got out of public safety, sort of for the most part, like 2015 was when I stopped doing, I was dispatching for Grafton County Sheriff's Department as well. And so that was the point where I had started teaching before then. And that's when my teaching career sort of took off. - Do you miss the public safety stuff? - I do. - You do. - Yeah, there's an element, you know, where you're really helping people when it's their dire time in need. And they just, they're like, you know, they're sick, they're injured, they're like, please help me. And it's not necessarily, you don't want the accolades of like, oh, I'm the hero or whatnot. It's just that you're helping people. - Yeah. - And when, and that was, that's what I really miss. But I'm just doing it now, just in a sort of different capacity. - You are still though, I mean, you. - Well, I mean, I'm helping people like as a teacher. - Okay, okay, okay. - But yeah, like I said, I still keep my paramedic license. You never know I might get the itch one day to go back and jump on a truck, but that, who knows? - My wife is hooked on Chicago fire. - Mm-hmm. - She loves that truck. - Yeah, I used to watch like third watch. - Oh my God. - Which was all of them. That was a really good series of them. - Oh, were they all, are they all pretty close? I mean, they actually now, it used to be that like. - Yeah. - No, that never happened. You can't do that. - I mean, sometimes it's a little outrageous, but then sometimes they hit the nail on the head. - Yeah. They try to be more realistic, I think. - So you migrated, you dropped on me that you went to school for journalism? - Yeah, broadcast journalism, you have what? - Yeah. - I always want, I thought. - You get a degree? - Yeah, I've got a couple actually. I've got two matches degrees for that. - What is this guy? - So in front of the camera and behind the camera. - What? - So, you know, so everything that goes into, you know, producing news broadcasting, you know, the videography component, you know, shooting video, editing video. And then I also have the journalistic side. You know, you know, news reporting and anchoring. You know, you know, being in front of the camera. - Did you do that? - Oh yeah, yeah. - You did reporting. - Yeah, yeah. - Like down the street, good on. - Yeah, so the program up at Linen State College was they're actually their news station transmits to probably like 8,000 homes in the Northeast region of Vermont. - Yeah. - You know, St. John's, Rio Linenville, that whole catchment area. - Yeah. - And it's like, it's bigger than some of the smallest stations in the United States 'cause news stations are based upon like a ranking. - Yeah. - And you know, so like, you know, like a news market. And so like, I think one of the smallest ones is like a 200 market up in like Prescott, Maine. And we were actually bigger than that market as a college run news station. - Wow. - Yeah. - Do you ever cover any crazy stories? - Uh, I wouldn't say crazy. - You know, like the guy who gets hired and then all of a sudden you run like a triple murder. - Right. Or you know, like I was doing a bunch of, you know, like the squirrel caught in a tree. - Or like little kids yoga. I went down to Brad for one time and I covered that. So like sort of like those heartfelt stories, I guess is what I would get. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, well I can see that, that's pretty cool. - So you go from public safety to journalism or the other way around either way. - And then teaching. - Right. - How long were you a teacher? - Well, I still am. - You are? - Yeah. - Okay. - I teach up at Linwood High School up in Lincoln. - Okay. - Yep. - And so I've been there. This is like my seventh year now. There was one year that I went away and I moved down here the southern part of the state. - Okay. - And I had gotten a teaching job at Wyndham High School. - Yeah. - I was there for a year, yeah. And I just wanted to kind of give Southern New Hampshire try. You know, the high school is great. Love the high school. If I could have picked up the high school and moved it North, I absolutely would have. I just missed living in the North country. You know, being born and raised in the North country, you know, especially up in Berlin, Guorm area. And now I call Littleton my home. It's just it's, there's nothing like it really. And I just, I really adore it up there. - Where's the high school in Lincoln? - In Lincoln, it's right, basically almost across the street from Jean's Playhouse. - So that soccer field that's over there, that's the high school? Like when you make that turn there? - Yep. - I didn't know that. - I thought that was elementary. - No, it's, well, there's, it's K through 12 all in the same campus, two different buildings. And we're one of the smallest districts in the state. Our graduating class this past, you know, a couple of weeks ago, 12. - You mean as in a dozen? - Yeah. - 12 seniors just graduated from Linwood High School. Yep. - Man, is that, was that considered big? - No, they're one of the smaller ones that we've had. - I think the next year's graduating class is close to 30. - 12, would you hold it at Subway? - It was in the gym, Ray, it was in the gym. - 12. - Yeah. - Oh man, well, kudos to those 12, I'll tell ya. So have you found the transition from all of those easy or difficult, I mean, teaching's not easy? - It's not. - It's not. - And I didn't attend a traditional, you know, educators prep program, like many will go away to college in order to become a teacher. I earned my licenses through an alternative plan that the New Hampshire Department of Education has. And that worked out for me, and it's just, I've learned along the way. - Put a pen in that, here's your dance and choose. We have to dance out to a commercial, 'cause we gotta make some money. Whoo, you are listening to NH Unscripted. I am your host with the Bunny Slippers on Ray Jubbly. We are coming to you from the Disneyland like conditions of the WKXL studios deep, deep, deep in the heart of Concord. 1450 AM, 103.9 FM and for your beautiful people in Manchester, 101.9 FM. NH Tuck Radio's the URL, NHTuckRadio.com. Dan Adams is in the building. We're chatting, entertainment. Well, we will be right back. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Welcome back to NH Unscripted. We are on the road to Shambola. I am your three dog night like host, Ray Jubbly. Yes, got my neighbor who's jacking on my bell bottle pants. We are trucking, I mean, we are trucking. 1450 AM, 103.9 FM on your radios in Concord. 101.9 FM for the beautiful, beautiful, beautiful people in Manchester, NHTuckRadio.com is our URL. I'll tell you a little later what's going on out there. Dan Adams, my friend, is in the house. Dan, so, we covered your early years from when you were like 10 to 20. And then, and so, you were a teacher. Did you tell me at one point you would teach IT? - Yeah, so I do a lot of technology related stuff, and also, what I went to college for, broadcast journalism. My students do a news program at Linwood High School called the Cane Connection. And so we go off and we've interviewed students and teachers and we get things that are happening in the school and in the community, and we write news stories and videos about it. - Cool. - Yeah. - That is really cool. - For such a small high school, I'm really lucky that our school board and our community supports it, 'cause the program's been around for years. And I took it over back in 2017, and I've sort of revamped it. And so, yeah, but yeah, technology, computer stuff, digital media, graphic design. My students make the yearbook. - Oh, that's perfect. - Yeah, yeah. - All 12 of them. - Yeah. - Okay. - I'm going to make sure I got that up. - So, yeah. (laughing) - So, we know each other from theater. - Right. - That's where we know each other from. - How did you get your start in theater? - So, I think like all people at some point, like, you know, when you're younger, you might do a high school play. - Yeah. - And I did one. Then I did some community productions up in the Berlin Gorm area. Two theater companies that no longer exist back in the old days, Theater North and Mainsboro Players. And then I sort of took a hiatus for a while. And then when I was actually working as a cop in Lisbon, I was teaching a CPR class at Lisbon High School. And I saw on the board that they needed that they had auditions for their production of By By Birdie. Now, this was like 2004. And I'm like, well, I'd always wanted to kind of get in back into acting. So, I call up the director, Dick Alberini, who's well known up in the Littleton community. And this was for, and I know you've interviewed the theater up. - Yes, yeah. - And so. - Few weeks ago. - Right. And so back then, they were known as upstage players. And they were located in Lisbon. So that was the group that we're doing this for. And so I go, I call them up and I say, hey, I see that I've missed your auditions, but is there anything that I can do? Can I work backstage? Can I do something for you? And then so Dick Alberini says, well, can you sing? And I'm like, I guess? I mean, a little bit. You know, I'm not-- - Happy birthday. - Yeah. And so he's like, okay, well, I think we might need you to be in the show. And the next thing you know, they're offering me Albert Peterson. - What? - Yeah. - Out of the shoot? - Yeah. So I guess it's because I was at the right age. - That's a little bit more than can you sing. - Right, right. So that sort of jump started, I do that show. And then the woman that played my mother, Pat Jansen, I think you might know Pat Jansen. - I don't know if I do enough. - She's down from this community now. She lives, she moved down here. - Okay. - She's like, you should go audition for the weather van theater. Now, if you don't know where the weather van theater is, it's on Route 3 up in Whitefield. It's an equity theater up in the north country. And she's like, you know, they sometimes they take local people and I'm like, okay. So I go on audition and, you know, the former artistic director said, hey, I would like to use you, but you look like all of my interns. 'Cause they hired a bunch of college kids in order to kind of fill out the smaller roles and stuff like that. And I'm like, okay. Well, then I come back the next year, you know, and then they cast me that year. You age that much in one year. - Yeah, yeah. And so, like, so I did a couple. - You know, loga look like a college kid. - Right. So I did a couple of shows that year and then that started off a repeating process of me performing at the weather van for a number of years in a row. - Wow. - So I don't know how many professional shows I guess you could say that I participated in up there, but it was enough that I had joined the equity membership candidacy program. - What? - And I had earned enough points that I could have gotten my equity card at the time. Now they've changed the parameters in order which you can join. - Yeah. - But I had earned it. I had done enough shows that I could have joined, you know, the union based upon that. - Wow, that's impressive, dude. - Thanks. And it was, but the best part about it was that each summer I was looking forward to being able to work and perform with these people, but just really grow as a performer. - Yeah. - You know, because I've worked with a number of people that have gone on to Broadway and what have you. - Yeah. - And, you know, just to be kind of to be around them and be in the environment, you know, regardless of what my role might have been, you know, a lot of ensemble stuff. - Yeah. - But I was just in the room watching and learning. - Yeah, talk about that a little bit because you do learn a lot. I mean, there's a lot of pressure on a professional production. I mean, you got to be off book, you got to come in, you got to be ready, you know, all that. - So talk a little bit about what that was like as opposed to community theater. - Right. So my very first production was Beauty and the Beast. And I had no idea what I was really getting myself into, you know, and they do like, it's summer stock. And they used to be on this rotating rep where, you know, it was like a different show pretty much almost every night. But your rehearsal period was like five or six days. - Yeah. - And then they would launch the show. So-- - You'd be scared to even just hearing it now. - You know, you had to do a lot of homework at night. There was, you know, a lot of, you know, there was, there was union rules so they could only rehearse so many hours in a day. - Right, right. - You have to get it right as best as you can within that scope of time. - Yeah. - And then if not, sometimes you just have to move on 'cause you gotta get everything going in order for opening night, you know? - Man, not pressure. - Yeah. - I can't, for folks who don't know who have never, they just go maybe see professional theater, I'm telling you this, what goes on behind the scenes? When we were up at Jeans, there was a lot of time to be over at the Penguin. And yeah, they got notebooks out there all day long in their breaks, they're reading, learning, memorizing, they're working on their dance steps. You don't have much time. - You don't. - You hit the ground, runny, man. - Yep. - That's crazy. - A lot of late night work and sometimes you're doing stuff when you're not even called. - Yeah. - If you gotta rehearse, you're doing dance steps, you're off the side. - Yep. - That's the world of summer stock. - Absolutely. - It's a whole 'nother world. - Yep. - And rep is even worse if you ask me 'cause you can have multiple shows. You're not just doing one. - Yep. - I mean, at Jeans, at least, well, right now they're currently doing one show and then they'll be rehearsing another one in the morning. - Yeah. - But rep, you've got two different shows, three different shows each, like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday are all different shows that are going on. - Absolutely. - And you got an old ball. - Yeah, you do. - Yep. - Man, oh man, did you enjoy it? - I absolutely did. You know, it was so rewarding, you know, learning and growing from all of those people and just learning how to put on a show or produce a show in such a short amount of time. I think it really hones in your skills. - Yeah. - You know, and let's just say that, you know what, of course, I'm not, you know, the best actor in the world, right? But I certainly have learned a lot. - Well, you're not made. - Right, I'm not Ray Dudley, that's right, I'm not. But I've certainly, you know, I've made Headway as a performer. - Yeah. - And I think it all to that experience because then that opened doors for me working at places like Jeans Playhouse and Interlakes and Hackman Tech Playhouse, I did a show over there. - Yep. - So it's- - Have you done shows at the Winnie, too? - Well, with their community. - Yeah, okay. - For productions, yes, but professionally not yet. - Yeah, I'll tell you this, nothing like that pressure cooker. I mean, to really, you talk about honing your skills. Dude, you are pairing off anything that just waste. - Absolutely. - And time-wise, you know, there is no such, you're in the pressure cooker every minute counts. Every minute counts. I mean, I do love it and then the kids are great. - Of course, now they're all kids to us, right? I mean, jeez, god almighty. - So you did the weather rain for a few years. Why are you not there now? - So they've been a little bit of change in regime. And, you know, certainly they know that I'm available and they just haven't made the call yet. And so luckily I've just been able to do other theaters and it's worked out. But certainly there, I would love for them to call me any time, 'cause it's literally 20 minutes from my house. - Yeah, you mentioned, you had the golden ticket. They're the Willy Wonka golden ticket. You could have gone. - I could have, yeah. - Why did you not? - Because a lot of people would say, "Oh, he's crazy, we need to work all about," you know? - Yeah, I mean, it's certainly if I had known when I had joined the, you know, the candidacy program that it's pretty much like your ticket that like, you're going to probably go to New York and you're really going to try to make this work. And certainly I've had offers, you know what, I booked other shows like, you know, in other states. And I even booked a, you know, a cabaret in New York City, but I chose not to do them for various different reasons. But I think it's just that I'm so set on loving and living in New Hampshire. And there's not a ton of equity theaters. And once you go equity, you know, you're making that commitment that you're joining the union and that that's what you're going to do. And I've found that I do more work or I get more work as a non-union performer. So I just decided not to go that route. - Yeah, that's a very valid point. I was doing, what was I doing? Castle Rock down the film, the TV show. - Yeah. - And the topic came up there about union versus non-union. And then the very same parameters were out there. People who were non-union were talking to the union bill, "Should we, can we, is there a benefit to it?" And all this. And in their case, the argument that came out, the union guy said, "Well, look, there are great benefits to being in the union." I'm going to have to finish this when I come back. (sighs) - At the time? - At the time! At the time! (laughing) My God! All right, folks! You are listening to the NHN Scripted Room. We are gentle. On your mind, I am your Glen Campbell-like host Ray Dudley. We are coming to you from the YMCA-like conditions of the WKXL Studios. I can smell the pool chlorine from here. 1450 AM 103.9 FM and 101.9 FM for the beautiful souls in Manchester. NHsockradio.com is the URL, but you knew that. Dan Adams is in the house. We're still talking fitness. Let me right back. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - If anyone could ever write my life story, let it be about NHN Scripted. I am your Gladys Knight-like host, Ray Dudley. - And yeah! - You're listening to us on 1450 AM or 103.9 FM in Concord. 101.9 FM for the beautiful people in Manchester. God bless you, folks down there. NHsockradio.com is the URL. Little bit of information about that. Coming up in the minute. Dan Adams is here, my friend, and we're chatting business. I was telling you about union versus non-union because you brought up equity. So anyway, the union guy said to them at the point during the discussion, there are a lot of benefits to being union. However, now this was pertaining to film and TV. I don't know about acting theater. But he said, once you go union, you can't go backwards. And he said, we just renegotiated our contract where there were less jobs, more money, but less jobs now for the union people. And they opened up a lot of the non-union, to more non-union people, for more roles for those people. So there was this real trade-off and people like, oh, so there's less jobs. You're fighting for less jobs. So I don't know if that still is, if that transfers over to stage, but I could see where it might, right? - Absolutely, yeah. There's so many, right? - Yeah, I mean, especially for equity theaters, like they have a certain type of contract to which they run off of, which then it will guarantee that they have to have a certain number of equity contracts and then a certain number of non-equity ones. So I guess it all depends on what they've negotiated with that union, that year or what have you. - You find some theaters are better to work for than others, I mean, you don't have to put one on the spot, but other some houses where you're like, man, I just love working there. And I'm just like, please don't call 'em. - You know, I think certainly there's ebbs and flows where it's summer, depending upon who's there at that time, maybe there's a really good vision that they're trying to do and it makes it fun to be there. And then I think you naturally journey to somewhere else and you find yourself working in another place and it's good for you at the time. So I think it just, it all depends on where we are. You know, with some. - Sometimes new is good 'cause it's refreshing. - Absolutely. - You know, everything is, there's a whole different way of doing things and all new people and yeah, you just could've kind of kicked yourself in. - Well, and that's what sort of brought me to the southern part of the state. You know, not to say that, you know, I didn't, I don't enjoy performing in the North country because I absolutely do. There's a ton of talented people up there. - Correct. - But I was sort of getting a little bit stagnant and I wanted to try and meet some new people. - Yeah, good for you. - Which is what, you know, brought me to like performing at the Winnie and their community productions. - Yeah. - Because I was teaching at the New Hampton School, you know, nearby. - Yeah. - And then so I said, hey, I'm gonna go check out this theater and that was also a good leaping point for me because I was exposed to a number of different performers, you know, from the Lakes region area and then from like, you know, here in the Concord area. - Yeah. - And then that slowly then got me associated with, you know, doing like the New Hampshire Theater Awards and meeting more people from the southern part of the state. So it's been really rewarding, you know, slowly coming south to meet more people and grow and do more, have more opportunities as a performer to expand my skills. - Yeah, growth is good. Absolutely. - So right down the road from the Winnie, here's a little segue for you. - It is interlakes, is it not? - It is just, yeah, don't you happen to be doing something in interlakes? - I am this summer, yeah. - Right now. - So they have a four show season. So they're doing Newsy's Chicago Legally Blonde and then Million Dollar Quartet. And so then I've been cast as, you know, one of the, you know, supporting roles in Legally Blonde. My track isn't exactly nailed down, but I do believe that the role of Dewey is slated to come my way. - Okay. - So if you don't know the show, it's a fun show about, you know-- - A lot of fun. - This, you know, this girl going to Boston to go to Harvard to become a lawyer, all because she wants to keep her boyfriend. - Right, her dog. - Yeah, her and her dog. So you'll see me in that show right at interlakes this summer. - Yeah. - I think July into early August. - Have they started already? Have they opened? - They have not. I think they start rehearsing for Newsy's, maybe tomorrow Friday? - Ooh. - Yeah. - That's just, yeah. - So, it's been great musical too. - Yeah. - Man, oh man, that's a big cast, isn't it? - Yes, I think they posted their cast, and it's, I think it's a couple pages of different photos. - Yeah. - So, you know, and certainly, you know, it's Nancy Berry up there. She does a, she does a really good job of getting in a lot of good talent. You know, she can, certainly, she knows how to pick them. - Yeah. - And, you know, this is my second, well, my third year performing for her, I was there last summer doing a couple of shows, and it was a rewarding experience. I'm just glad that they gave me another call. - Yeah, I've never worked the theater, but I have seen a couple of shows there. - Yeah. - What is the theater like, as a performer? - It's, I have no idea. I have no concept of what's backstage, I have to have their dutch in rooms, I know nothing about it. - Oh, well, so they perform at Interlake's High School? - Yep. - And, so we perform in that theater, we rehearse in the cafeteria. So, it's certainly, she leases out a number of spaces in the high school, and it's kind of cool. It's really chill, and, you know, as you're almost back in high school, because you're, you know, you're changing in a locker room. - Yeah. - And whatnot, so it's, it might not be the most spectacular of dressing rooms or whatnot, but it's just the art that we're making makes up for any of those idiosyncrasies that you might have with the other process, but I, you know, I'm not, you know, high maintenance, it was certainly, it was fine for me. I just love making the theater, and, you know, in entertaining a crowd. - Yeah, I saw a hairspray up there, it was great. - Yeah. - Thank God, I heard that they have updated their seats. - Yes. - I saw it. - And it's air conditioning, I do believe, man. - Oh, man. Welcome to the 21st century. - Yeah. - Are you, what else is on your docket? So, after that, I know you're not doing nothing. - I have nothing slated for right now. Actually-- - For the fall, you mean nothing? - Nothing, right, so actually, so I'll go back to teaching, you know, in the fall, but as we get a little bit older, sometimes our body says, "Hey, I need you to kind of fix something." So, I'll be having a little bit of surgery on my shoulder, so that will put me out for the count for a little bit, so. - Oh, man, that's terrible. - Yeah. - Are there shows that you want to do, that you hope to get a chance, let's take on your docket for you. - Yes, hopefully. - I think we all, yeah, I think we'd be silly not to admit that there's roles and shows that we want to do, you know, certainly, like, into the woods and being the baker is a role that I've always wanted to do. - Oh, that's classic. - Yeah, you know, and certainly I don't typically fit into those, like, more leading male roles. You know, I'm more of the, you know, the sort of the funny of the sidekick kind of, you know, character roles. And so, basically, there's a lot of shows out there that I say, "Hey, that's a role that I can do." And there's certainly there's shows that have come around that you're just sort of tired of doing. - Yes. - And you're just like, so they might not just draw you in, you know, but they sell, so that's why a lot of theater companies do them. So, I've been a little bit more choosy in the last few years, and that's fine with me. You know, certainly every now and then you get the itch to do a show. - Yeah. - And, but right now, something comes around, you know, when he's doing Matilda, I think, in the fall. So, if my shoulders healed up, then maybe that's something that I can take part in. Who knows? - Dude, would you hurt yourself, throw in the ball? What happened there, just age? - I think you're just lifting patients all of those years. Yeah. - Ooh. - You know, yes. - Yes. - You seem to be, like me, of we have finally, I don't wanna say arrived, 'cause we have not arrived, but to the point where people seek you out, you know what I mean? They have a role and they're like, you know what I can easily call dance. - Yeah. - And get that, you know, which is really nice. Because it means we don't, thank God. We don't have to audition or whatever, you know. I hate that process, I have always hated that process. - I know, I know it's a part of it, but still. - I know, I hate it, now a lot of it's virtue. You gotta do self-tapes, don't like, come on. Give me a break. Have you been able to do any film or any commercials or any TV or any of that? - I have done a little bit, I have one movie on my credit. I have an IMTV page, yeah. It was a movie called Before I Sleep, and I had a small little role in that as a parishioner in the church that they filmed up the North Country. It was in Sugar Hill. - Yeah. - So that, I've got that. I was in a Japanese television show that was filmed a number of years ago. - Wait, park right there for a second. Wait, what do you mean by that? - Yeah, so this production company came over from Japan and they were, you know, recreating these scenes of like events that had happened. - Yeah. - And the premise of the game show in Japan was that you had the cat. - Squid game. - Yeah, not quite. But they had to pick what story, which story wasn't true. So they had to pick the real story. And one of the ones was that, you know, we were, some girl needed a transplant of a, you know, I think of our liver or something like that. And we, the community came together because there was a helicopter that needed to air lifter out. And we all had to go in and shovel snow off of this pond. So the helicopter could land. And I also, you know, typecasting. I was a paramedic that we brought the little girl and drove her to the scene and stuff like that. So, yeah, I think I've saw a DVD of it once and I sort of laughed and chuckled. And then I'm like, well, whatever, it's, yeah. - It's on DVD. - Yeah. - Yeah, somewhere. And then I did one other thing. I did a training video for a medical company down in Massachusetts. - Yeah, those are cool. - Yeah. - Quick money, you're in your alley, you know. - Absolutely. - Hang on. You are listening to the NIH unscripted. Whew, we are having a ball, baby. We are having a ball. We are coming to you from the Hollywood squares, like digs of the WKXL studios. I like the center square myself. I am Ray Dudley. You're happy to be out of bed host. 1450 AM 103.9 FM and khaki. 101.9 FM and Manchester for you. Beautiful people down there. NH stockradio.com is our URL. Pay a little bit more about that when we come back. Dan Adams is in the house. Your brother is good to see you. We'll be right back. (upbeat music) Hey, baby, you got what it takes. You know, isn't it, NH unscripted? I am your Dave Fox five, like host Ray. 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Yes, go out to NH talkradio.com. Click it, listen to anybody. My happy voice. Dan Adams is in the house. We're talking show business, baby, show business. Dan. People who are in the business, are people who are just getting into the business. All have a need or have a system for learning lines or just things that are important to theater. So do you have a system for learning lines? I know some people record this. I'm writing them down. Well, it's a little bit of both of that actually. So I think the first and foremost, you have to read the material like a few different times. You have to understand what the roles are and what the story is that you're trying to tell just as a big part of or a small part of that entire story. So, but as someone with ADHD, so who gets wicked distracted by every shiny penny. I have to do a few different things. So there's one, there's an app that I purchased. I think it's called like Line Learner or something like that. Oh, yeah. And so you do. It can work as your partner and you can record your lines and then their lines. And then that way you can kind of play it back. That's one way of doing it. But the most traditional way, because we don't do this much anymore in our advanced society with technology in year 2024. I do, I take out my note cards and I write everything down. You do. I do. You write them all down. I do, you know, at least once. Wow. You know, 'cause as a teacher, that's what I'm always, you know, trying to tell my students is that, you know, because you can type all day long, but there's not a lot of muscle memory when you're typing. But when you write it, then you're actually sort of having a concrete moment in your brain. Yeah. And so for me, that is what works best. So I just, I write it all out, I'll highlight it, and then I'll read them again. And then maybe a few days later, I'll do it again. And so that sort of keeps me, you know, on point. But I didn't always do that. It took me some time to really figure out that that's what worked best for me. Yeah. And I think everybody has their own system, you know, but I just can't recite the words in the lines over and over again that just doesn't work for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, have you ever gotten to the point where I know some people, they do the first letter thing. Have you heard about that? Where they know. They look at their script and then they, they don't just write the words down. They might do that the first time. But the next time they write down the first letter of every word that they're about to say. Interesting. Yeah, and I'll try that. I don't even know how that works. I mean, basically, I can't even, as I look at it, it looks like something out of the hobbit or something right by the time you're done, because it doesn't make any sense. Some kind of short idea. Yeah, right, it is. And I'm guessing the brain picks it up. I have anybody who knows how that works, let me know. But it, it, it, it supposedly it like really con, makes things concrete in the mind because you're not, you've seen the letter and you know there's a word there and it's associating it somehow and I don't know, but it would seem to me, eventually it just looks like Morse code or something. Yeah, I would say they can't look like a, I mean, if your brain has the ability to fill in the blanks, you know, then I guess that would work really well for you. But someone from like me that just, that probably wouldn't work out so well. It just, I literally just have to write it and write it over again. And then that, that seems to work for me, okay. Yeah, yeah. So you're down here now visiting in the lower part of the state. Yep. For what, either shows you're trying to see, you know, the things is some of the, the some of by the way that you want to see, there's a lot going on. There's a lot going on, yeah. You know, certainly there's, you know, a bunch of the old chestnuts that are being produced, you know, friends up at powerhouse are doing filler on the roof. Yes. You know, if I can make it over there, you know, certainly I will do that and support all of them. Yeah. You know, it's, there's a lot of Jersey boys that are playing in the area. I know, I'm going to see that at the winning. Yeah, so I think that's one of those shows that I think you have to see at some point. Yeah. So yeah, I'll try to make my rounds with whatever free time I have. But, you know, as a teacher, I like to just adore my summers and take advantage of it whatever way that I can. So I'm going to try to do some traveling before I start rehearsals, you know, next month. Out of state. Yeah. Yeah, I try to, you know, I, I go down to DC a bike or anything. No, not really. Oh. You know, yeah. So I go to DC, I go to Atlanta. And so I think I might hop on a plane a few days and go visit some friends in Atlanta. No kidding. Yeah. Just get out of time. It'd be literally just, okay. I mean, some people walk down the street. Well, and I do that too, certainly. If you're driving on Main Street, Littleton, you'll probably see me walking out, out and about every now and then. But, you know, yeah, I just, I like to take advantage of, you know, you know, the fact that we've got a great airport right nearby. And, you know, I've got frequent flyer miles. So I'm going to take advantage of it. Yeah, my son works for Harvard. And one of his jobs there is to bring in, when new speakers come in, he sets up the housing and all that itinerary. And so he's constantly getting frequent flyer miles. And he's always staying at some, remember, we went to see Frankie Valley a couple of weeks ago down in Mohiganson. He had points. Yeah. The hotel was free. He just, he said, "Dad, here, just take the points and you got the hotel." And I'm like, "Hold, that works out really good." Yeah. "Save your babies up." Absolutely. And also, you know, I've subscribed to, you know, TDF, which is, you know, a fund in New York City. So I can get tickets for, you know, a lot of people know of the TKTS booth in New York City. Okay, hang on. I don't know either one of them. Oh, you don't? Okay. So, yeah, I forget what it actually stands for, but essentially it's, so if you go to New York City and you just want to see a show and you don't know what you want to see, there's a couple different booths in the city. One is right in Times Square, you know. So you go there and you have a bunch of shows that you think you want to see. And odds are you're going to get like a 30 to like maybe 50% discount off of those tickets, you know, like hours before the show. That's huge. So a lot of people take advantage of that, but that company also has, you know, a membership that you pay into, which I do do. Yeah. And, you know, you can buy tickets ahead, you know, in advance. So like, you know, maybe a week or so out, two weeks, I can get a like a $60 ticket and they kind of put you anywhere in the theater, but whenever I've done that, I've always had a really good seat. So I take advantage of that and I go down to New York as much as I can. So, does that, do you go by yourself then? I mean, sometimes, you know, like, because not as our work, you can't necessarily get tickets next to each other, right? If you go as, well, if you, if you're ordering two, they'll put them, yeah, they'll give you two right next to each other. Okay. But then a lot of the time. You come up a lot? I don't know if they would obviously. Yeah, so I mean, well, there's an app for everything, right? You got to check it out. What? Yeah. And so you'll be able to see everything 'cause they post it like that day of like what's available. You know, so whatever those producers, they send to the booth and they say, hey, try to sell out the rest of our house and we'll give, you know, with this reduced rate 'cause we want to put as many seats as, you know, butts in the seats as we can, you know, in a Broadway theater, right? Yeah. And so that's what sort of that company does. Okay. So that means you have to be pretty free or flexible, right? How do you get to need, you fly or do you take the train or you drive? I will drive to New Haven. Planes trains. And then I'll take the train in from there. Yeah. Yeah, that's a decent way to go. You know, if I do it, if I'm going to be like just in and out, if I'm going to spend a few days 'cause I've got a number of friends in the city that I'll go and visit. Yeah. I'll take like the bus out of like Hanover, Lebanon, the Dartmouth coach. Yeah. And I'll, in the posh buses, I like to call it. And you know, in that way, my car is nice and safe up in the north country. And that's a good point. Yeah. Man, so how often you do that often? I mean, I can't. I hate to be ignored ever. I was there a few months ago 'cause I when saw the musical shocked. Never heard of it. Yeah. It's about corn. Wait, what? Yeah, it's about corn. That's art. Is it a music? It is, yeah. Oh, okay. It's going to, I think it's coming to Boston here in a few months. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. What? How is that even, who? Was it entertaining? What it was. It was, it was, yeah, it was, it was, you know, it was. Okay, what's the premise? Did corn, corn can't be a? The premise was is that, and of course, as it evades me where exactly it was in this, this fictional county, there was this thing that was happening to their corn crops that their corn crops were being threatened. So this one lady, she's like, I'm going to go and try to find a doctor that can take care of the corn. She goes to like Tampa. What? The guy comes up and the guy's like, turns out to be a swindler. And then it's all about whether he's actually going to take care of the corn or not. I don't want to ruin it, but it's all about corn. I'm not sure. And there's a love story. How about you? You can ruin that. (laughs) I know, okay. But that was the last show that I saw. Yeah. Oh my God. I saw Sweeney Todd on Broadway. Sweet. That was, dude, that was epic. I mean, and there's a number of them, 'cause I think like pretty much every Broadway theater is housed right now with a show. So I think if you go to New York City right now, you're going to be able to see a good show. Yeah, what's hot down there now? What's the latest that's on Broadway? Well, if you watch The Tony's a little, you know. I did. Just recently. Marily, we were all along. I think it's pretty good. Yeah. Wait, Daniel Radcliffe. Marily, we were all along. Yeah. There you go. NH Unscripted, Dan proving my ignorance. That's what happens when you get old. I am your host, Ray Dudley. You are listening to NH Unscripted. 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