Episode 227: The Sesquipedalian of Nutmeg Junction features Kristin Moresi in the title role with Marilyn Olsen, Olivia Wadsworth, Phil Hall, Kurt Boucher, Jeff Savage, Jack Sheedy, Rebecca Rosewood and John Fabiani.  In the American west where words have the ultimate power, who else can win a reasoned and informed debate at high noon other than…the sesquipedalian? Find out in this episode!
Also featuring a bonus encore presentation of Thank Your Lucky Stars: What’s Kazoo with You? Featuring Jack Sheedy, Robert C. Fullerton with Kurt Boucher, Olivia Wadsworth, David Robinson and Jandi Hanna

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Show notes: This episode has already received considerable positive feedback from listeners who enjoyed the story of a word-slinger of the American West. The script took some time to develop and ultimately I believe the story pays off the premise’s promise. It is ultimately a message of admiration to the teachers, especially the English/Language Arts teachers, who inspired us.

This is Kristin Moresi’s first starring role. Kristin joined us for Pride and Prejudice (as Jane Bennett) and we recorded this episode on the same day.

Marilyn Olsen made a welcome return to Junction as the inspiring teacher Ms. Tutor.

I enjoyed the idea of Kurt Boucher as the Mayor becoming Jeff Savage’s prospector character (NOOOOO!!!!!) and Phil Hall’s Marshall Withers becoming Jack Sheedy’s Withers as a member of Marshall Bull’s gang.
Marshall Bull was portrayed by Olivia Wadsworth who will be acting on stage in the Warner Theater’s “Wait Until Dark”  Sept 21-29 in Torrington, CT.

Rebecca Rosewood became the voice of “Willoughby”, Rebecca starred in last week’s episode “Pride and Incredulous”.

John Fabiani impressed us in last week’s episode with his British accent as Mr. Wickfull. In this episode he joined us as the American west barkeep. Lots of voices from Mr. Fabiani and we’re going to explore more in upcoming episodes!

The music was created by J. Timothy Quirk, a three or four chord number with whistling on reverb and some horse sounds embedded into it.

CREDITS

Episode 227: The Sesquipedalian

Was written, created and produced by J. Timothy Quirk and recorded at WAPJ Torrington Community Radio.

Starring:

Kristin Moresi as The Sesquipedalian

Marilyn Olsen as Ms. Tutor

Olivia Wadsworth as Marshall Bull

Kurt Boucher as Young Mayor

Jeff Savage as Old Prospector

Phil Hall as Young Withers

Jack Sheedy as Old Withers

Rebecca Rosewood as Willoughby

John Fabiani as The Bartender

Music by J. Timothy Quirk (c)2019

In Nutmeg Junction episode 225, we enjoy another Harriet Holmes story “The Long Game” featuring Olivia Wadsworth as Harriet Holmes with Rich Cyr, Jandi Hanna, J. Timothy Quirk and Rebecca Roseswood.

Introducing a parody of the stolid 60’s era detectives in Los Angeles comes TALES OF INTRIGUE: starring Phil Hall as Rutledge and Kurt Boucher as Haldeman. In this episode the duo infiltrate the Poetry scene with fool proof disguises: rented bandannas but when one bandanna falls off, will they be discovered for the agents of the status quo?
Then Nutmeg Junction cast members share .favorite poems from times gone by. Enjoy these trips on the trolley ride of imagination on Nutmeg Junction: America’s NEW Old Time Radio program!

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CREDITS

Episode 223: was written, created and produced by J. Timothy Quirk.

The majority of the program was recorded at WAPJ Torrington Community Radio. Some segments were recorded separately at offsite locations.

Some music courtesy of youtube royalty free music-selections where attribution is not required.

Serendiphistory theme used in the poetry segment was written, created and performed by Robert C. Fullerton ©2018 and used with permission.

CAST:

PHIL HALL AS JAMES RUTLEDGE

KURT BOUCHER AS HALDEMAN

JEFF SAVAGE AS CHIEF

RICH CYR AS COFFEE SHOP BARISTA

JANDI HANNA AS MAMA MOONSHINE

REBECCA ROSEWOOD AS FLOWER

POETRY SEGMENT

PHIL HALL READING OZYMANDIUS WRITTEN BY PERCY SHELLEY

KURT BOUCHER READING DRIED APPLE PIES BY ANONYMOUS

OLIVIA WADSWORTH READING EL DORADO BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

RICH CYR READING A SONG BY JOHN DRYDEN

JACK SHEEDY READING MY LAST DUCHESS BY ROBERT BROWNING

REBECCA ROSEWOOD READING SHAKESPEARE’S SONNET 18

J. TIMOTHY QUIRK READING THE SECOND COMING BY WB YEATS

Nutmeg Junction would like to introduce you to The Narada Radio Company, created by Pete Lutz. Pete Lutz is the son, grandson and father of community theatre actors, and a lifelong devotee to Old-Time Radio programs. In order to fulfill his desire to make his own audio plays, he created the Narada Radio Company (80+ members and growing) and began podcasting the “Pulp-Pourri Theatre” anthology series in 2013. The fourth and final season wrapped in 2018, and a 12-chapter Western serial, “Jake Dimes, Range Detective”, finished in early 2019. The Narada Radio Company occasionally performs live in local venues (in the Corpus Christi, TX, area), and is currently appearing in an all-new horror anthology podcast series, “The Cellar”, which at present has released three episodes of a planned 24. These plays are a mix of originals by Pete and guest playwrights, dramatized tales from the pulps, and adaptations of stage and screenplays. Not one of us gets paid for appearing on stage nor for our podcast performances — we are indeed “The Community Theatre of the Mind”.

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We return to the world of Fanny and Fred in this episode of Nutmeg Junction. Fred has a high school reunion in his old home town he has not visited in fifty years. Fanny comes along to give some driving advice and the rental car has a GPS system. Will they ever get to the reunion?  Starring Jandi Hanna and Jeff Savage as Fanny and Fred, with Melissa Gabehart, Kurt Boucher, Rich Cyr and Jack Sheedy, music by Kurt Boucher.

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SHOW NOTES

This was an unusual episode because nearly every single element of the recording was recorded at a different location and was pieced together.

There was a highly unusual situation that occurred across the street from WAPJ when we had planned on recording the show.

WAPJ is on Water Street in Torrington where there are a number of older structures in town and in one of those structures, a photographer had a studio and in the studio was an old safe which he decided to open only to find that there was a hazardous substance there as a theft-deterrent. The entire street was blocked off.

For safety reasons, I cancelled the recording session.

This left us in a quandary however as to how to record our show.

For Fanny and Fred, Jeff and Jandi along with Rich and Jack Sheedy came in and recorded on a Sunday.  Melissa Gabehart and Kurt Boucher recorded remotely.

Then for Thank Your Lucky Stars, all of it was recorded separately.

Jack recorded on that Sunday. Robert recorded remotely. Laurel Briggs recorded remotely.

The additional audio tracks of music and audience were separate. Fortunately it was only a ten minute piece!

Some of the upcoming episodes (except for next week which is unique for us as we have a guest production to share) were in the same boat as this episode and were recorded separately. Fortunately all of the Nutmeg Junction team turned in wonderful performances and if you didn’t know, you probably couldn’t tell!

CREDITS

Nutmeg Junction Episode 221 was written, created and produced by J. Timothy Quirk and recorded at WAPJ Torrington, Connecticut.

Jandi Hanna  as Fanny

Jeff Savage as Fred

Jack Sheedy as the Announcer

Rich Cyr as himself

Melissa Gabehart as the GPS

Kurt Boucher as Man on the Porch

Music by Kurt Boucher (C) 2019 and used with permission.

Interlude music by M. Quirk and used with permission

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Jack Sheedy as himself

Robert C. Fullerton as himself

Laurel Briggs a s Patti the Pretty-Good Puppeteer