Speaker 1: I'm going Boston's news radio thank again, Walkin's final hour
Speaker 1: of night Side. And I saw this musical when it
Speaker 1: played in Boston in nineteen ninety seven. The Wang Theater
Speaker 1: then it's now called the Bach Center is where it played,
Speaker 1: and I was just perplexed. How could they have a
Speaker 1: musical about the Titanic, because when you think of musicals,
Speaker 1: you think of festive, happy happenings. I did. I did
Speaker 1: like it. I saw it, and I wasn't as perplexed
Speaker 1: after I saw it. It's back. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: the event at the Castle in Boston where they've got
Speaker 1: artifacts from the original Titanic on display. This is the
Speaker 1: musical that first played in the nineties. I think it's
Speaker 1: one four or five Tony's over the years, and I've
Speaker 1: got one of the gentlemen who will be in it.
Speaker 1: It's going to be playing at the North Through Music
Speaker 1: Theater from the twenty ninth of October to the tenth
Speaker 1: of November. So everybody, you can applaud at home, and
Speaker 1: he'll pretend you can hear all of you. Kevin McGlenn
Speaker 1: is here, Kevin, good evening to.
Speaker 2: You, good evening. How are you all right?
Speaker 1: My in studio producer.
Speaker 2: N I can I can barely hear you over the applause.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, it was thunderous, thunderous. So now, what what
Speaker 1: role you playing?
Speaker 2: I play Isidor Strauss, who was one of the co
Speaker 2: owners of Macy's with his brother Nathan, and I'm accompanied
Speaker 2: on the journey by my wife Ida, played by Broadways
Speaker 2: Mary Callanan.
Speaker 1: And in nineteen twelve, did you and Mary survive? Did
Speaker 1: Mary just survive? Did you just survive or both perished?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's not like people don't know the
Speaker 2: end of the story, but both Ida and is Adoor perished.
Speaker 2: He refused to get on a lifeboat while there were
Speaker 2: still women and children on board, and she refused. She
Speaker 2: refused to get off. She'd get into a lifeboat without him.
Speaker 1: So it's like a couple. When we saw the movie,
Speaker 1: they just stayed in bed as the water is flooding
Speaker 1: into their room.
Speaker 2: Correct, Maybe not.
Speaker 1: That ending for the two that you just mentioned, but
Speaker 1: they didn't want to leave each other.
Speaker 2: No, that is how they're depicted in the nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: seven movie. But from all accounts, they were still on
Speaker 2: deck when the ship went down. From the survivors from
Speaker 2: other survivor's accounts.
Speaker 1: Now, it sounds like you have played this role this
Speaker 1: musical in the past.
Speaker 2: I've done this musical in the past, but not this
Speaker 2: role in the past. I originally did the show in
Speaker 2: two thousand and one. I believe that the now defunct
Speaker 2: Worcester Foothills Theater. Okay, and I played Thomas Andrews, who
Speaker 2: was the architect of the ship.
Speaker 1: And you know what, when you saw the movie, you
Speaker 1: were kind of a fan of his, And I still
Speaker 1: remember the line he said, I'm sorry I didn't build
Speaker 1: your stronger ship, young Rose.
Speaker 2: Andrews says, yeah.
Speaker 1: Andrew says that to.
Speaker 2: Kate. Yeah, Kate wins, Yeah, yeah. He I think he
Speaker 2: felt completely responsible because well, you know, as they claimed
Speaker 2: it was unthinkable, and they they made that claim because
Speaker 2: of the watertight compartments and there were sixteen of them,
Speaker 2: and that they would be able to shut them off
Speaker 2: from each other so that wouldn't overflow. But because of
Speaker 2: the way the ship hit the iceberg on the side,
Speaker 2: you know, it just it just ripped right into the side.
Speaker 2: And it's commonly believed had they steered directly into the
Speaker 2: iceberg and took on head on, then they would they
Speaker 2: would not have sunk, or they wouldn't have lost so
Speaker 2: many lives because not as many compartments would have flooded.
Speaker 1: Right, So you've become a Titanic historian despite.
Speaker 2: Well, because it's the second time I've done it. I'm
Speaker 2: kind of a kind of a research guy. So I
Speaker 2: like to you know, especially if it's a real person.
Speaker 2: I like to know who they are, where they came from,
Speaker 2: you know, anything I can find out about them. I
Speaker 2: actually right before I left to come up here, because
Speaker 2: I live in the Bronx in New York. I originally
Speaker 2: from Metric Mass but I live in the Bronx. The
Speaker 2: Strausses are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, which is less than
Speaker 2: two miles from my house. So I did. I did
Speaker 2: visit their gravesite before I came over here, which is wow.
Speaker 2: It sort of sort of puts the whole thing in
Speaker 2: complete perspective, because, you know, you you try to pay
Speaker 2: homage to these people who were they were real people
Speaker 2: and they perish in this hideous and unfortunate accident.
Speaker 1: And forgive me for being being rude or a snight
Speaker 1: or sarcastic, but a nice young man from Medford moving
Speaker 1: to New York.
Speaker 2: Of all places, it happens in the best of families.
Speaker 1: Tisk. And if I have to repeat myself again, tisk.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what when we come back is. It's
Speaker 1: a break to take. I want to find out about you.
Speaker 1: What got you into theater? Did you play Death of
Speaker 1: a Salesman in high school? Something? Something had to what
Speaker 1: you whistle to do this? To stand in front of
Speaker 1: hundreds of people and pretend to be somebody else. And
Speaker 1: this is a musical, so you have to sing. And
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're pretty proud of your singing voice.
Speaker 2: I can hold a tune.
Speaker 1: Okay, the key used to get ahold several notes at
Speaker 1: the same time.
Speaker 2: Exactly, all right.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you what. Let me take my break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, I'll invite phone calls. It might be
Speaker 1: just JU and I chatting for another forty five minutes,
Speaker 1: or maybe, just maybe we'll get some phone calls to
Speaker 1: talk about the musical Titanic six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 1: four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, two nine
Speaker 1: ten thirty. And if you have questions for my buddy
Speaker 1: Kevin McGlenn, and I'll have him spell his last name
Speaker 1: for you. I already had him do that for me
Speaker 1: when we spoke the other day. I am now going
Speaker 1: to take my break, but we'll be back shortly after
Speaker 1: a few commercials. Here on the night side, time and
Speaker 1: temperature eleven fifteen fifty nine degrees.
Speaker 3: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 3: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1: We are back. We're talking with Kevin McGlenn and he
Speaker 1: is in the new musical. Not new, This musical has
Speaker 1: been around on the circuit in the past, and it's back.
Speaker 1: It's opening on the twenty ninth of October and has
Speaker 1: a twelve day run ending on November tenth at the
Speaker 1: north Shore Music Theater. And Kevin, let me ask you,
Speaker 1: have you ever performed in that theater in the past.
Speaker 2: At north Shore? This is my fourteenth show at the
Speaker 2: north Shore Music Theater.
Speaker 1: Can't find something to keep you working, can you?
Speaker 2: Huh? My first show was in nineteen ninety two. I
Speaker 2: did the first show I did there was How to
Speaker 2: Succeed in Business Without really trying.
Speaker 1: Oh, please tell me you played Peter port Finch.
Speaker 2: No, No, I was in the dancing ensemble. My character's
Speaker 2: name is Peterson, and I gave him the first name Pete,
Speaker 2: So I was Pete Peterson.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know why I think the greatest love song
Speaker 1: in the history of Broadway is from that production, Because
Speaker 1: when Pierre part Finch sings to himself in the mirror,
Speaker 1: I believe in you. I mean that right there, he
Speaker 1: is singing to himself to boast to himselfself, to make
Speaker 1: sure he's got the hoods, but to do all the
Speaker 1: things he has to do in that musical.
Speaker 2: And I'll say there are two there are two instances
Speaker 2: in my life where I felt I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is what singing in the ensemble of a musical
Speaker 2: should feel like. And it's that wall of sound. And
Speaker 2: it's in the musical I just mentioned in the musical
Speaker 2: I'm in right now and how to succeed. When you're
Speaker 2: singing Brotherhood of Man, that is it. You know, it
Speaker 2: gives you that like from your toes all the way up,
Speaker 2: that feeling of like this is amazing. And in the
Speaker 2: opening sequence of Titanic, when the entire cast is singing Salon, Salon,
Speaker 2: it is it's a It's a magical moment that'll give
Speaker 2: you goosebumps.
Speaker 1: You've got the brotherhood. Oh that I'm I gotta stop.
Speaker 1: I have to stop because I go off on a
Speaker 1: tangent from time to time and I'll sing five stanzas
Speaker 1: of a play or a musical or a movie or TV.
Speaker 2: You go right, you go right ahead.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you stopped me. And name another production. You say,
Speaker 1: fourteen different productions. Give me another one.
Speaker 2: Well, I can rattle up the list. I did How
Speaker 2: to Succeed Alice in Wonderland Annie, where I slipped off
Speaker 2: the stage opening night and I thought I broke my
Speaker 2: leg nine to five. I've done two productions of Sound
Speaker 2: of Music, one in twenty thirteen and one in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three. I did Maame, Hairspray, Oklahoma, Cinderella, Kinky Boots, Elvis,
Speaker 2: Jersey Boys, and now Titanic. Quite a resume, yees at
Speaker 2: the theater. Yeah, I've been They've been very good, good
Speaker 2: to me here. I've been very lucky to work here
Speaker 2: over fourteen times over thirty two year period.
Speaker 1: Did you have to read for Titanic? Or that I'm
Speaker 1: just going to call from Bill's office or somebody on
Speaker 1: his staff and said, do you want to play Titanic?
Speaker 2: I did get a lovely offer from Kevin Hill. Are
Speaker 2: the producing artistic director and the director of this musical,
Speaker 2: and he's directed me in several and he did calling
Speaker 2: offer me role.
Speaker 1: That's what you know. You're good.
Speaker 2: I've known Kevin for a very long time. We actually
Speaker 2: used to dance in the chorus together. We did my
Speaker 2: one and only together at the Chiswick Park Theater in Sudbury,
Speaker 2: which is also now defunct. It seems like I close
Speaker 2: a lot of theaters.
Speaker 1: There's a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon that chronicles how he
Speaker 1: gets started and became a star, and there's a repeating
Speaker 1: scene where he sings as a part of the chorus,
Speaker 1: Oh away are the boys and chorus. We hope you
Speaker 1: like our show. We know you're rooting for us, But
Speaker 1: now we have to go. You gotta see that cartoon.
Speaker 1: Everything everything about theater is in that six and a
Speaker 1: half minute cartoon. Let me take a phone call. We
Speaker 1: get a couple of calls, and I'm gonna start with Florence. So, Florence,
Speaker 1: you want to speak to Kevin, don't you?
Speaker 4: I do? Good Eve, see Morgan Jack and good each
Speaker 4: means Kevin Kevin. Oh wonderful. I'm a big theater lover
Speaker 4: to me aside from movie Theater is number one, And
Speaker 4: I wanted to ask you, since you played so many roles,
Speaker 4: it's wonderful. Is there a role if it ever comes
Speaker 4: up that you would like?
Speaker 2: Oh well, well, i'll tell you that my age Florence.
Speaker 2: They're they're getting here and fwer. But the one role
Speaker 2: that I actually did get to do, which was my
Speaker 2: dream role, was Jesus and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Speaker 4: Okay, I've seen that. Yes, I've seen that years ago.
Speaker 2: Okay, It's actually the reason I pursued theater was because
Speaker 2: of my brother's eight track cassette tape. It's anybody remembers
Speaker 2: what that was? And I used to listen to that
Speaker 2: when I got back from school. I would pop that
Speaker 2: in and just wail at the top of my lungs
Speaker 2: every single day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So is there anything perhaps in the future that
Speaker 4: you would like to do that if he gets the opportunity.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you one role that I would love to
Speaker 2: do is I did it for a very short period
Speaker 2: of time. Is I don't know if you know the
Speaker 2: musical Matilda, No, I don't. It was originally a movie
Speaker 2: and they made it into a musical and there is
Speaker 2: a horrible hideous human being of a character called Mistrunchfull,
Speaker 2: which is played by a man and just terrorizes the
Speaker 2: children of the school. Oh wow, and i'd I'd love
Speaker 2: to get my hands on that role one more time.
Speaker 4: Well, it sounds like it might be a very challenging role,
Speaker 4: and uh, that would appeal to you.
Speaker 1: And it sounds like you've done the role. You've already
Speaker 1: put that one on your resume.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did do I did it a year ago.
Speaker 2: It was only it was it was only a weekend run.
Speaker 2: So I'd love to actually, you know, do like a
Speaker 2: legit run of the show.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: My my favorite show, uh is My Field Lady and
Speaker 4: you've seen that with Rex Harrison and I love Showbolt,
Speaker 4: which I'm trying to get more sure to do that
Speaker 4: and you know, in the future, and because that would
Speaker 4: that would be that's a wonderful production.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you, Florence a little anecdote that in
Speaker 2: the original production of My Fair Lady, Larry Keith was
Speaker 2: the understudy for Rex Harrison, and Larry Keith is the
Speaker 2: one who originated the role that I'm playing. Isidor Strauss
Speaker 2: in Titanic Musical in nineteen ninety seven, oh all.
Speaker 4: Right, okay, all right. Did you see the movie The
Speaker 4: Unsinkable Molly Brown?
Speaker 2: I have not, Reynolds, Yeah, I have not. I have
Speaker 2: not seen that movie. I did go down a bit
Speaker 2: of a rabbit hole before the show, and I've watched
Speaker 2: the Original Titanic with Clifton Webb and oh lord, what's
Speaker 2: her name? Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwick and a very
Speaker 2: young Robert Wagner. And then i watched A Night to Remember,
Speaker 2: which was done in nineteen fifty eight, which has been
Speaker 2: toted as probably the most accurate depiction of what happened,
Speaker 2: because one of the fourth officer, Joseph Boxhall, was actually
Speaker 2: a consultant on the film, So one of the survivors
Speaker 2: and one of the crew members actually consulted on the film,
Speaker 2: and they say that's probably the most accurate depiction of
Speaker 2: what happened.
Speaker 1: And one of my friends who recently passed away this
Speaker 1: year was in A Night Do you remember, David McCallum.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Oh, David, you mean from Man from Uncle?
Speaker 1: Oh, don't get me started, Do not get Me started?
Speaker 1: The Man from Uncle. There's a poster that came out
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty five over my bed framed.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I had.
Speaker 1: David McCallum on my show at least nine or ten times.
Speaker 4: Oh well, Kevin, Kevin, I wish you luck, continued luck
Speaker 4: with your future. Okay, with your FLCE.
Speaker 2: I appreciate. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: It sounds like you've been in so many productions. You
Speaker 4: must be very very good.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 2: I just I just hope to keep hiring me. Florence.
Speaker 2: Let's keep your fingers.
Speaker 4: Crossed, Okay, take.
Speaker 1: Care, Florence, your call, bye bye.
Speaker 4: Good night, moving, good night.
Speaker 1: And Kevin, prove to me that your divine and turned
Speaker 1: my water into wine.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry that was that was herod.
Speaker 1: I'll stop there, mm hmm. But I'm tempted to go
Speaker 1: on because I'm quite familiar with a lot of the
Speaker 1: ditties from some of the music that you mentioned.
Speaker 2: But you have my permission.
Speaker 1: And every time I have Bill on, and Bill has
Speaker 1: been Bill Hanny's been on with me more times than
Speaker 1: I can count, I always do one line for him.
Speaker 1: Om Lord, don quixote the mind from.
Speaker 2: Speak, That's what That's what I should have told Florence.
Speaker 2: I would have. I mean, you know, I'm I think
Speaker 2: I've aged out at this point, but that was one
Speaker 2: role that I would have. I mean, I've done the show,
Speaker 2: but not that role. Okay, age years ago, but I
Speaker 2: would have loved to have played don Quixote.
Speaker 1: You never know, it's not too late. Anything could happen.
Speaker 2: That's true. I could do it in the nursing home.
Speaker 1: I am not going to insult you by asking your age,
Speaker 1: but you have a very young and powerful sounding voice.
Speaker 1: And you know as you get older the power in
Speaker 1: that voice diminishes, but you still have a very powerful voice.
Speaker 2: I'm holding on.
Speaker 1: All right, We're halfway through, so I'm going to take
Speaker 1: a break news and maybe a commercial or two, and
Speaker 1: we'll come back. Take a few more phone calls here
Speaker 1: on Night Side, I'm Morgan's filling in for Dan Ray.
Speaker 1: Dan Tribby back tomorrow, I guess. And on that note,
Speaker 1: time eleven thirty, temperature of fifty nine degrees.
Speaker 3: If you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ,
Speaker 3: Boston's news radio, I.
Speaker 1: Tell you this all four hours of the show, Dan
Speaker 1: is off. If you hear my voice between eight and
Speaker 1: midnight means I'm filling in for Dan Ray. My name
Speaker 1: is Morgan, Morgan White Junior. I've been a part of
Speaker 1: the WBC Land Escape since the mid nineties. Have my
Speaker 1: own show on Saturday nights and that starts at ten.
Speaker 1: Not that you care, but I have a guest who
Speaker 1: is going to be playing in the musical coming to
Speaker 1: the North Shore Music Theater, Titanic, the musical, And you
Speaker 1: hear musical and Titanic, and it sounds like an oxymoron.
Speaker 1: The two just shouldn't be mentioned back to back. But
Speaker 1: it was very entertaining I saw, and I'm assuming the
Speaker 1: production I saw at ninety seven, Kevin, is the production
Speaker 1: that will be starting in two days.
Speaker 2: Well mean yeah, it's it is the same show, but
Speaker 2: not obviously the same cast that did it, but it's
Speaker 2: the same same script and score, absolutely all right.
Speaker 1: And you should know the phone number up there. I
Speaker 1: don't have it in front of me, but you can
Speaker 1: call and go to your tickets that way, or you
Speaker 1: can just go and pick a performance that you want
Speaker 1: to go see. And if you want to, like, hold
Speaker 1: up a sign, Hi, Kevin, heard you on BZ don't behavior.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that people behind you would appreciate that it's.
Speaker 1: Not a baseball game. You can't do that. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned the man From Uncle. A lot of people when
Speaker 1: they think of David mccowman think of uh ducky on NCIS.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you, do you remember the show
Speaker 1: The Man from Uncle?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, very much.
Speaker 1: I means you're not twenty four years old.
Speaker 2: That means I'm a man of a certain age. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go there, but I will be
Speaker 1: having on November ninth, and you will still be here
Speaker 1: doing the show. I don't know if it will allow you.
Speaker 1: I'm on a ten. I've got Stephanie Powers scheduled to
Speaker 1: interview and play. She played The Girl from Uncle, and
Speaker 1: there I already know the first question I'm going to
Speaker 1: ask her, and it was going to be what does
Speaker 1: she remember about Boris Karloff? Because the first episode of
Speaker 1: The Girl from Uncle had the character of Napoleon's solo
Speaker 1: partnered with her, and then they did a similar thing
Speaker 1: on the next episode of The Man from Uncle because
Speaker 1: No Hareton played Mark slayt April's usual partner, but he
Speaker 1: partnered with David McCallum. Ilia. See this is how well
Speaker 1: I know these things. I am a g I don't
Speaker 1: know if Peil told you, but I'm a geek.
Speaker 2: I mean Boris Carloff. That is that is Hollywood Roy Lady.
Speaker 1: He played the character Mother Muffin and he had oh
Speaker 1: great fun doing it. You could tell he enjoyed doing
Speaker 1: that role. It's almost like watching Caesar Merrow do the
Speaker 1: Joker on Batman.
Speaker 2: Joker. I was just gonna say that, it's like that
Speaker 2: Batman series where all of those amazing actors got to
Speaker 2: you know, Burgess Meredith and all of those people are
Speaker 2: if a kid, I mean, how much fun was that?
Speaker 1: I was supposed to have Julie Numar about oh wow,
Speaker 1: six seven months ago. She's ninety years old. Her agent
Speaker 1: gets me some of the people that I have on
Speaker 1: the air to interview, and he and I were speaking
Speaker 1: about this just this week because she was supposed to
Speaker 1: be on with me months go, and it was supposed
Speaker 1: to come in conjunction with her book, but the book
Speaker 1: ran into a snag, didn't get published and was supposed to,
Speaker 1: so she wasn't going to come on and not have
Speaker 1: the book to talk to talk about. But I am still,
Speaker 1: excuse me, scheduled to get her. We shall see if
Speaker 1: I do or not. But she's ninety years old and
Speaker 1: probably still still just as sexy. As ever. Yeah right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm being generous, being generous as I say that.
Speaker 2: So I just I just got a text message from
Speaker 2: my cousin Mark to make sure I sait Hello, Hello damn.
Speaker 1: Where does he live in Metrid?
Speaker 2: He does?
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 2: We grew up next door to each other. My mother
Speaker 2: and his mother are sisters and there was one house
Speaker 2: in between us. So were there are six kids in
Speaker 2: my family born his, so it was like ten kids
Speaker 2: and four parents.
Speaker 1: Hello, MARKU Medford. Now if people went to YouTube or
Speaker 1: the internet or whatever and looked up Kevin McGlenn, how
Speaker 1: do they spell your name?
Speaker 2: Well, they'd have to look up Kevin B. McGlenn because
Speaker 2: that's my that's my legland equity name, okay. And the
Speaker 2: last name is capital M, small C, capital g l
Speaker 2: y n n Okay.
Speaker 1: I always have people do that because in this twenty
Speaker 1: first century age, everything is out there online on a computer, website, whatever,
Speaker 1: And if somebody wants to look up your history. Have
Speaker 1: you done movies as well?
Speaker 2: I did the Brinks Job back in nineteen whatever whatever
Speaker 2: year that was. I was an extra on that. I have.
Speaker 2: There's only one movie that I'm featured in. It's called
Speaker 2: Isabelle Isabelle Hooper in the Ghost of Nantucket, which we
Speaker 2: filmed on Nantucket a couple of years ago. It's a
Speaker 2: it's sort of a tween movie. It's stars. Lord love it. Duck.
Speaker 2: I'm just blanking on her name.
Speaker 1: She could normally very good at helping people along, but
Speaker 1: I never saw that movie.
Speaker 2: She is in the movie with Adam Sandler where he
Speaker 2: which one he uh wait, let me see. I'm like
Speaker 2: looking her up right now. Oh, Bailey Madison. Do you
Speaker 2: know Bailey Madison. She's She's done a million, a million things.
Speaker 2: Just go with it. That movie with Adam Sandler and
Speaker 2: Jennifer Aniston. Yes, and you know they have the fake children, and.
Speaker 1: I remember that movie. No, I would not put that
Speaker 1: up there with Adam Sandler's best. But you know a
Speaker 1: few people laughed when they were supposed to. That's important thing, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I play long filmography.
Speaker 2: No, no, not at all. It's mostly live theater.
Speaker 1: And was that a conscious decision to go more towards
Speaker 1: live theater than movies, because usually you pay attention to
Speaker 1: what your strengths are, and you go with your strengths.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's funny, it's funny because it wasn't
Speaker 2: until later in life that I even thought that was
Speaker 2: an option for me, because I I love to sing
Speaker 2: and I love to dance, and so musicals were sort
Speaker 2: of the natural path for me. Then I started doing
Speaker 2: a little bit of commercial work. But you know, theater
Speaker 2: has kept me employed and has paid my mortgage and
Speaker 2: car payment for many many years now. So I.
Speaker 1: You have bread and milk in the kitchen, exactly theater.
Speaker 2: Who doesn't love a fluff? Another on whitebread with glass
Speaker 2: of milk.
Speaker 1: Oh, you need fluff, fluff, fluff to have a fluff,
Speaker 1: another marshmellow fluff and lots of peanut butter. Off the
Speaker 1: top of my.
Speaker 2: Head, Wow, that was that was impressive.
Speaker 1: And you enjoy joy joy. I'm sorry, I can't stop.
Speaker 1: I have to stop it. And you are a very
Speaker 1: handsome man. And Nancy, who was my producer sitting next
Speaker 1: to me, just took out her pad and looked you
Speaker 1: up and there you go. Now you've got to be
Speaker 1: in You got glasses to prove that. I looked at
Speaker 1: the picture of you.
Speaker 2: Oh right, you mean right now? Yes, I'm right now.
Speaker 2: I'm yeah, I'm bearded right now Because Isidore was okay.
Speaker 1: And you see a lot of people necessarily wouldn't know
Speaker 1: that if you didn't have a beard, they wouldn't say, oh,
Speaker 1: that's wrong, you still had a beard. I've seen pictures
Speaker 1: of him from nineteen twelve. Yeah, you've got to honor
Speaker 1: honor the.
Speaker 2: Character, absolutely, that's what you know. His body was recovered,
Speaker 2: hers was not, and the family went to the site
Speaker 2: of the wreck and took some water and put it
Speaker 2: in an urn and buried the urn with him at
Speaker 2: their run at Woodline.
Speaker 1: That's a touch a class, tell you what. Let me
Speaker 1: take my last break of the hour again. If anybody
Speaker 1: wants to call in Florence already did, you can too.
Speaker 1: But times are dwindland six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
Speaker 1: thirty eight, eight, eight nine two, nineteen thirty. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can handle the last fifteen minutes of the show,
Speaker 1: but I'll make room for you if you call in
Speaker 1: to speak with my guest Kevin McGlenn. That's Clint McGlenn
Speaker 1: with y here on night Side time and temperature eleven
Speaker 1: forty six fifty nine degrees.
Speaker 3: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 3: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1: I'm Jordan actor Kevin mcclenn and he's going to be
Speaker 1: in the production of Titanic the Musical, which opens in
Speaker 1: two days up at the north Shore Music Theater October
Speaker 1: twenty nine to November ten.
Speaker 2: And five days. You just gave me a small heart attack.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry, my mistake. Yeah, because you get the
Speaker 1: weekend off and the I apologize. Okay, I won't make
Speaker 1: that mistake again. But it's theater in the round, and
Speaker 1: you've mentioned that you've played there on fourteen different productions.
Speaker 1: Do you prefer theater in the round or the straightforward
Speaker 1: of a theater?
Speaker 2: You know, there is there is a freedom in theater
Speaker 2: in the round that you don't have to be aware
Speaker 2: of in a regular passonian theater, because it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: where you're standing, they can see you right. You know,
Speaker 2: when you when you block a show in a proscenium
Speaker 2: theater which is flat on, you have to make sure
Speaker 2: that when you're speaking with somebody, you're not upstaging them
Speaker 2: so that they're speaking upstage and the audience can't see
Speaker 2: their face. And you know, there's whole art to blocking
Speaker 2: that way. But in the round, you can be seen
Speaker 2: from wherever you are so there's a there's a just
Speaker 2: a sort of a strange freedom. Like I said that
Speaker 2: you're you're uninhibited and where you go when you're when
Speaker 2: you're performing.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I learned terms like the proscenium, march
Speaker 1: and sro o a standing room only back in ninth
Speaker 1: and tenth grade when I took drama. And you don't
Speaker 1: get to hear that word used that often anymore, right,
Speaker 1: But it's a description, it's a description of the environment
Speaker 1: of stage. And I have been just handed box office
Speaker 1: information online www NSMT dot org by phone, and I'll
Speaker 1: give you time to write the phone number down nine
Speaker 1: seven eight two three two seven to two. Oh oh
Speaker 1: all right. The box office hours Monday through Friday nine
Speaker 1: am to five pm, Saturday ten am to two pm,
Speaker 1: closed on Sunday, and their address is fifty two Dunham Road, Beverly,
Speaker 1: mass So now you know how to find Bill Hannies
Speaker 1: North Short Music Theater. And I can't believe this. Someone
Speaker 1: is just called in us get nervous on somebody calls
Speaker 1: so late. But let's take the call, Rick and Belle Rica.
Speaker 5: But you don't have to get nervous. I'm just I'm
Speaker 5: just calling to say good luck to Kevin, because I've
Speaker 5: been singing for a long time and you know, that's
Speaker 5: that's the epitome of live singing. That's that's hard stuff.
Speaker 5: I've never done theater and uh, and you know, I
Speaker 5: I know, I know it's it's it's the toughest. And
Speaker 5: also Kevin's got to watch how if he wants a
Speaker 5: glass of wine, he might have to skip it for
Speaker 5: the night if it well, depending on how many shows.
Speaker 2: He has to do.
Speaker 5: Because as a singer, you have to watch what you eat.
Speaker 5: You got to skip the dairy, the cheese. You got
Speaker 5: to hydrate extra, you got to sleep extra. You probably
Speaker 5: gotta have ginger tea all that other stuff. Kevin, Kevin
Speaker 5: knows all about that stuff. But I just wanted to say, Kevin, Uh,
Speaker 5: I just want to say good luck because it's it's
Speaker 5: a battlefield when you go out theater.
Speaker 6: Perform and everything you said, everything you said is absolutely true,
Speaker 6: and I you you know that the grind that you
Speaker 6: have to go through to keep.
Speaker 2: Your your instrument in top shape for you know, a
Speaker 2: performance every single night. So I appreciate that, and thank
Speaker 2: you for the thank you for the well wishes.
Speaker 1: So you're not too far away to get to the
Speaker 1: no show a theater, are you?
Speaker 5: I'm not far away, but I've I've got things I
Speaker 5: got to do. But depending on how much, how long?
Speaker 5: How many shows are you playing there?
Speaker 2: We do? We do eight shows a week for two weeks.
Speaker 5: Well, it's it's good to know. And what a tickets?
Speaker 5: About a hundred bucks?
Speaker 1: No, I can't They're not that high that I don't
Speaker 1: know what they are, but I know that figure is incorrect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm just a r Yeah, because when
Speaker 2: I'm there, I'm on the stage and not in the
Speaker 2: in the audience.
Speaker 5: Well, no, I'm just a bee.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: With inflation everything, I'm just upping the price. I'm up
Speaker 5: in the price. So I don't feel so bad. I't
Speaker 5: know if it's less.
Speaker 2: I'm delighted, you know. But that's.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And uh and you know, best of luck, Best of luck, Kevin.
Speaker 5: I'm sure it's going to be an awesome production. I
Speaker 5: want to say that you give you a wish. All right,
Speaker 5: have a good night, guy, right.
Speaker 1: Rick, thank you for the call. All right now, I
Speaker 1: asked you about theater in the round, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to ask when you were growing up, Just giving your
Speaker 1: toe wet in theater? Who are your favorite actors and
Speaker 1: did you ever get a chance to meet them?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, this is really funny because growing up,
Speaker 2: you know, kid, I loved the show Laughing Okay, And
Speaker 2: one of the first impersonations I ever did it was
Speaker 2: of joe Anne Worley when she was to Go, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: I just thought she was like the funniest person in
Speaker 2: the world. And now she has become a very dear
Speaker 2: friend of mine. Yeah, I've worked with her twice and
Speaker 2: a mutual friend of ours. Todd ended up moving to
Speaker 2: LA and stayed in constant touch with her, And every
Speaker 2: time I've been to LA or when she was here
Speaker 2: doing Drowsy Chaperone, we saw each other constantly. And you know,
Speaker 2: she's she was just you know, she was one of
Speaker 2: those things when people when I was a kid, I
Speaker 2: was like, how do I get from my dan watching
Speaker 2: TV into the TV? And I mean, you know, she's
Speaker 2: worked with so many iconic people and presidents and movie stars,
Speaker 2: and she's just a bastion of fantastic stories and she's
Speaker 2: one that I'm proud to call a friend.
Speaker 1: I loved it when they'd let her and Goldiehan, Judy Carran,
Speaker 1: Chelsea Brown more often than not did the it's a marred,
Speaker 1: marred world in the biding suit with the words painted
Speaker 1: all over them, and every now and then Joeanne Wooley
Speaker 1: got to do it. I like seeing her in a bikini.
Speaker 1: And I'll give you a bit of laughing trivia that
Speaker 1: gets back to one thing we mentioned maybe a half
Speaker 1: minute ago. Man from Uncle had that time slot and
Speaker 1: they canceled it for laughing.
Speaker 2: Oh oh really, And now you.
Speaker 1: Know, Kevin. I gotta go, but I thank you, thank
Speaker 1: you very very much, and I hope you do buffalo
Speaker 1: business up there.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate you having me on, and I
Speaker 2: appreciate the well wishes.
Speaker 1: Kevin, thank you, and everybody. I want to thank Alan Toles,
Speaker 1: Dave McDonald, I just think, Kevin. I want to thank
Speaker 1: Rob and Dan back at Busy Central and Nancy and
Speaker 1: Grace sitting next to me. If you called in, I
Speaker 1: love that. If you just listened, I love that. Bye, Boston,