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

Episode 220: The Chance Mysteries: Nathaniel and Netta Chance ( Kurt Boucher and Lana Peck are invited to a Ukulele Recital in the Finger Lakes when MURDER adds a sour note! Then Jack Sheedy andRobert C Fullerton host “Thank Your Lucky Stars with their guest, the World’s Greatest: “Actor-who-plays-a-role- called- Rich- Cyr”: Rich Cyr

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SHOW NOTES

The first feature is a new story for The Chance Mysteries.

Nathaniel and Netta Chance are our mystery solving aristocratic duo who becomes obligated to solve a murder after being invited to a social engagement.

There was an old Shadow show that took place at a piano recital. In this case we had fun with the idea of a ukulele  recital in the Finger Lakes. I was going to call it Death Plays the Oboe which sounds funnier but we didnt have access to an oboe and we did have access to a ukulele so we went with ukulele.

Thank Your Lucky Stars was a meta idea of Rich Cyr playing himself, which is always a fun concept, but the movie he’s pitching is one where he doesnt have any speaking lines.

I also enjoyed the idea of the Rich Cyr record collection

CREDITS

Nutmeg Junction Episode 220 was written created and produced by J. Timothy Quirk and recorded at WAPJ Torrington Community Radio

Death Plays the Ukulele

Starred:
Kurt Boucher  as Nathaniel Chance

Lana Peck as Netta Chance

Laurel Briggs as Patricia Worthington

Jeff Savage as Cartwright Druthers

J. Timothy Quirk as Lil’ Dwayne and the Narrator

Rebecca Rosewood as Reporter

Ukulele music by Kurt Boucher

Additional Music courtesy of Youtube Royalty Free music.

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Jack Sheedy as himself

Robert C. Fullerton as himself

Rich Cyr as himself and Doctor Banana

Olivia Wadsworth as Marie Curie

Kurt Boucher as Pierre Curie

Jandi Hanna as herself

Melissa Gabehart as herself

David Robinson as commercial narrator

MUSIC BY ROBERT C. FULLERTON AND USED WITH PERMISSION (C)2019 ROBERT C. FULLERTON

Episode of Nutmeg Junction for June 8th weekend has “Thank Your Lucky Stars” a talk show with Jack Sheedy and Robert C Fullerton. Their guest is the “World’s Greatest’ Audio Theater Mime!”
Then we have the Doc Keen LIVE story from the live show that didn’t make it on to the three live episodes. Finally we end with a classic Professor A story: My Brother’s Keeper.

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SHOW NOTES:

The live show featured a fun segment called Thank Your Lucky Stars with host Jack Sheedy and had The World’s Greatest Audio Theater Magician (played by Olivia Wadsworth) and Deborah Goodman as a “volunteer” participant in the magic.

The conceit of having guests as “World’s Greatest Audio Theater (something-that-shouldn’t-be-on-the-radio)” was a lot of fun, so much fun in fact that we decided to create a series of three 10 minute segments and if we have more ideas, we’ll create more!

So this first ten minute TYLS segment is “Once Upon a Mime” The world’s greatest audio theater MIME, played by Melissa Gabehart!

Now we were going to pair it with another Fanny and Fred story but as luck would have it, the story wasn’t finished in time (it will be recorded this weekend) but fortunately we had something else to share, one segment of a show we had not yet been aired: the Doc Keen LIVE story that we had to edit out of three live shows.  It was only edited out because the popular Fanny and Fred segment took up a time period longer than projected when the audience reaction time was factored into the equation.  So we are sharing it now

Finally we wanted to share a ten minute (or so) Professor A story and a stand alone one is “My Brother’s Keeper”. Joining the regulars Lana Peck (Professor A), Kurt Boucher (Dr. Robere) and Tiffy McKay (Ms. Gentry) are Josh Newey and Jandi Hanna in unforgettable roles!

Nutmeg Junction, America’s New Old Time Radio program features Fanny and Fred at the Mall followed by the continuing story of Space Sentries: The Vector Theorem

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SHOW NOTES
Jandi Hanna and Jeff Savage return as Fanny and Fred, our favorite residents down in Locust Hollow. Shopping has changed at the local mall and so have the movie selections!  With narration by Dan Willey, the program features Phil Hall and Tiffy Mckay with Rich Cyr as…himself!

Then we continue our Space Sentries: The Vector Theorem serialized story on board the Salisbury. Will the crew ever take back control of the ship?

This episode features Rich Cyr as Ensign Puffle, Kurt Boucher as Admiral Alx, Phil Hall as Hologram Admiral Complication, Dan Willey as First Op Gillard, Jandi Hanna as Lieutenant Machinery, Olivia Wadsworth as Ace Grimsley, Lana Peck and Jeff Savage as Space Brigands with Tiffy McKay as action hero Jenny Snips!

Space Sentries Theme music and Nutmeg Junction Theme music written and performed by Robert C. Fullerton (c)2019 and used with permission

Nutmeg Junction performed full shows live for the very first time on 4/27/2019 at the Center on Main in Falls Village, CT. This is the audio of part three of the evening where the audio theater team performed 3 episodes

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This features a welcome by guest conductor Patrick, then a Tex Bijou (Robert C. Fullerton) sing along, a Space Sentries Adventure in which we welcome a new Junction-eer Danny.

and we conclude with a Professor A which features Lana Peck, Tiffy McKay and Kurt Boucher as Professor A, Ms. Gentry and Dr. Robere with wonderful performances by Deborah Goodman and Dan Willey as the “visitors” and participation from the 8th grade class of Lee H. Kellogg School.

It was a wonderful experience to put on a full production of 3 episodes. We thoroughly enjoyed our work at The Center on Main in Falls Village, CT. We are grateful to Laurie Wadsworth for her extraordinary assistance in getting the program created there. We are grateful to Michael Illian for filming the production. We are grateful to Shaw Israel Izikson who took some wonderful photos. We are grateful to our guest conductors, Shane, Mariel and Patrick.

We are grateful to our audience who supported the show and this benefit for the Lee H. Kellogg school.

I am grateful for the entire cast who shared their time and talent bringing this event to life.

Studio episodes will return this weekend with episode 217: Fanny and Fred at the Mall and Space Sentries: Vector Theorem Part IV

Nutmeg Junction performed full shows live for the very first time on 4/27/2019 at the Center on Main in Falls Village, CT. This is the audio of part one of the evening where the audio theater team performed 3 episodes.

LISTEN HERE: Although the audio is not perfect, it does give the flavor of the production.

SHOW NOTES
It was an incredible experience to perform our program live in front of an audience. This production was a celebration of our first year as an audio-theater program.

We performed as a benefit for the Lee H. Kellogg School.

We are grateful for the Center on Main in Falls Village for their hospitality in bringing this show to their beautiful stage.

We recorded three episodes.

This is Part One.

Our Conductor was Conrad Sienkiewicz.

Out guest conductor here was Sloan.

Foley artists were J. Timothy, Mariel and Patrick

Submitted herein are two stories:

The Grey Whisper and The Mystery of the Folly Wall

and

Fanny and Fred and the Big Box Store

The stories were written by J. Timothy Quirk (c) 2019

Music by Robert C. Fullerton (c)2019 all rights reserved

and Kurt Boucher (c)2019 all rights reserved

The Grey Whisper and the Folly Wall

Starred

Jandi Hanna

Rich Cyr

Jack Sheedy

Dan Willey

Olivia Wadsworth

Fanny and Fred starred

Jandi Hanna

Jeff Savage

Kurt Boucher

David Robinson

Lana Peck