This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.

Today, in this LIVE Interview Replay, I am catching up with My Entertainment Idol Alt Pop Singer Songwriter Rachael Sage who is getting to ready to drop her latest album, Canopy!

In this NEW interview, Rachael is once again Baring It All with Call Me Adam, but this time around, she talks about:

• The making of her new album, Canopy
• How she would describe her latest record to audiences
• Why you should come see her live in concert
• Overcoming adversity
• Her personal side inspired by the track listing of her latest album, Canopy.
• So much more

Rachael Sage's new record, Canopy, drops on Friday, October 24, 2025. Rachael will be celebrating the release of Canopy with a concert at The Cutting Room in NYC on Thursday, October 23, 2025.

Click here to watch this live interview in video format!

• Jill Richmond Johnson, MPress Records PR
• Theme Song by Bobby Cronin
• Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell
• Edited by Adam Rothenberg
• Underscore Music by Cutique

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Rachael Sage is a 6x Independent Music Award Winner & John Lennon Songwriting Contest Grand Prize recipient. She has released over 20 albums and EPs since bursting onto the music scene via Lilith Fair.

Rachael is an outspoken activist on LGBTQ+ rights, anti-gun violence & women’s health issues. Rachael is a cancer thriver with multiple top-charting singles & hopeful anthems including "Blue Sky Days," "Bravery On Fire" and her feminist anthem “Sistersong.”

Rachael has shared the concert stage such musical luminaries as Ani DiFranco, Rufus Wainwright, A Great Big World, Beth Hart and Howard Jones.

This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.

Today I am catching up with Actress Jennifer Bassey, who you know for her over 30-year run as man-hungry nymphomaniac Marian Colby on ABC's hit soap opera, All My Children.

In 2017, Jennifer & I did an interview together where she briefly spoke about putting together a cabaret show. Now, 8 years later, that cabaret show is coming to life at 54 Below!

In this interview, Jennifer is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about:

• Why she wanted to create a cabaret show
• What will amaze fans about her upcoming cabaret show
• How Bobby Short changed the trajectory of her career
• Some OMG moments from her time on All My Children
• Walking through fear
• So much more

Jennifer Bassey's cabaret show, From Sexy Soaps to Classy Cabaret will be at 54 Below for TWO NIGHTS ONLY, Tuesday, October 14, 2025 & Wednesday, October 15, 2025 both shows are at 7pm EST. There is a livestream option on Wednesday, October 15.

In From Sexy Soaps to Classy Cabaret, Jennifer shares memories of her humble beginnings as a singing Playboy Bunny, to starring on Broadway, Off-Broadway & her on and off-screen exploits as TV’s first nymphomanic-cougar daytime diva, in this autobiographical romp featuring songs from Broadway & The Great American Songbook.

Click here to watch this interview in video format!

• Candi Adams & Adelina Correa - 54 Below PR
• Theme Song by Bobby Cronin
• Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell
• Edited by Adam Rothenberg
• Underscore Music by Cutique

Website: www.callmeadam.com

Facebook: @CallMeAdamNYC

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Jennifer Bassey is a two-time Emmy nominated actress whose first job in entertainment was as a singing Playboy bunny. After a chance encounter, Jennifer left her bunny ears behind & auditioned for a spot in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Jennifer got accepted while earning the lowest entrance marks in the history of the academy. She graduated from the RADA with honors, finishing just below classmate and future Academy Award winner, Sir Anthony Hopkins.

Upon moving to New York City, Jennifer appeared in several Broadway and Off Broadway productions including Neil Simon's California Suite, Not Now Darling directed by George Abbott, In Praise of Love with Rex Harrison and The Homecoming (The Original Royal Shakespeare Production), Moliere's Tartuffe, Wendy Wasserstein's Isn't It Romantic &The Taming of the Shrew at the Roundabout Theatre.

In 1983, Jennifer won the role of Marian Colby on ABC's Daytime Soap Opera All My Children, playing the borderline nymphomaniac for over 30 years.

Jennifer has been seen in such feature films as Waxwork, Twogether & Dunston Checks In, where in a scene-stealing, skin revealing moment, she received an orgasmic massage from an orangutan!

Jennifer's prime-time work has...

This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.

Today I am catching up with Marissa Jaret Winokur, who you know for winning the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for starring as Tracy Turnblad in the Tony Award winning musical Hairspray.

In 2023, Marissa was a featured guest performer in the Off-Broadway musical Exorcistic: The Rock Musical. Now, two years later, Marissa has been invited back as a mystery guest! The mystery is NOT that she will in the show, the mystery is WHEN?

In this NEW interview, Marissa is once again Baring It All with Call Me Adam, but this time she reveals:

• What made her want to return to Exorcistic: The Rock Musical
• How she gets possessed by her characters
• The important role theatre plays in her life
• Finding her spark
• Some jaw-dropping stories about her time in Hairspray
• So much more

Exorcistic: The Rock Musical follows a theatre company planning to put on a parody of The Exorcist. The audience will follow this theatre company from stage reading to Broadway as their quest for fame and money supersedes their art and humanity, ensuring that their lead actress, Emma Hunton, actually becomes possessed in the process.

The musical is a self-aware parody that creates a chaotic, over-the-top rock musical. In true Rock and Roll fashion, Exorcistic: The Rock Musical features a rotating cast of Celebrity Guests each week, creating an incentive for audiences to return again and again. This unique aspect sets the musical apart in the crowded horror-comedy genre, promising fresh surprises at every performance.

Special guest stars include: Lance Bass, Garrett Clayton, Orfeh, Frankie Grande, Lena Hall, Lindsay Heather Pearce, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Evan Rachel Wood, Ryann Redmond, Nick Cearly and MORE! (Scheduling pending)

Exorcistic: The Rock Musical is currently playing at The Asylum in NYC.

Click here to watch this interview in video format!

• Elizabeth Skollar, Skollar PR
• Theme Song by Bobby Cronin
• Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell
• Edited by Adam Rothenberg
• Underscore Music by Cutique

Website: www.callmeadam.com

Facebook: @CallMeAdamNYC

Instagram: @CallMeAdamNYC

Marissa Jaret Winokur is a Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award winner best known for her iconic role as “Tracy Turnblad” in Hairspray. She went on to win Celebrity Big Brother and placed in the final four on Dancing with the Stars.

Currently, Marissa is touring in the Drama Desk-nominated Off-Broadway musical Mama, I’m a Big Girl Now, which she co-created, wrote, and directed alongside Kerry Butler and Laura Bell Bundy.

Marissa will also be directing 5 Star Theatricals production of Hairspray this October in California.

This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.

Today I am catching up with Actress Michelle Clunie, who you know for portraying Melanie Marcus on Showtime's hit Television Series Queer As Folk.

The last time Michelle Clunie was on the New York Stage was in 2012 when she starred in her Off Broadway play US.

In this NEW interview, Michelle is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about:

• How Pen Pals made her want to return to the New York Stage
• What she hopes audiences come away with after seeing Pen Pals
• What she would tell Melanie from Queer As Folk today
• Something she's never shared before
• So much more

Pen Pals is the extraordinary story of two friends that unfolds over decades. With a rotating cast of renowned actors, no two performances will ever be the same.

Bernie and Mags live in two different countries, they’ve never met, and yet they’re best friends. Because they’ve been pen pals for over fifty years. Since they were teenagers, they’ve shared every aspect of their lives with each other. The trivial bits, the most intimate details, all the happiness, all the heartache. They’ve told each other things they wouldn’t dare tell another soul. Even though Bernie lives in New Jersey and Mags is from England, the women are closer to each other than anyone else in the world.

Come witness the journey of their lifetime. In their own words.

Pen Pals will run at the Daryl Roth DR2 Theater, with a rotating cast of stars, from August 15, 2025-December 21, 2025.

Michelle Clunie will be playing Bernie from September 3-14, 2025.

Click here to watch this interview in video format!

• Joe Trentacosta, JT Public Relations
• Theme Song by Bobby Cronin
• Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell
• Edited by Adam Rothenberg
• Underscore Music by Cutique

Website: www.callmeadam.com

Facebook: @CallMeAdamNYC

Instagram: @CallMeAdamNYC

Michelle Clunie is an award-winning veteran actress, born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Michelle stepped foot on stage at seven years old, first appearing in plays, operas and ballets.

She made her stage debut in Los Angeles at 23, in A Comedy of Eros, earning her a Drama-Logue award. She went on to star in numerous television, film and theatre productions earning awards in all three mediums, including a Backstage Readers’ Choice Award for her performance in The West Coast premiere of Neil LaBute’s The Mercy Seat.

In 2012 she wrote, produced, and starred in the Off-Broadway play US earning rave reviews, as an actress as well as writer, with critics comparing her style to Aaron Sorkin and Thornton Wilder.

Michelle is most often recognized as ‘Melanie Marcus’ in the groundbreaking series QUEER AS FOLK. The popular series was based on the original British series, but the American remake for Showtime, remains incredibly popular to this day, with a passionate, continually building fan-base.

Most...

This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.

Today I am catching up with Actress Nancy McKeon, who you know as Jo Polniaczek, from the beloved & long running 1980s series The Facts of Life.

Nancy is kicking off the return of Michael Griffo's play Pen Pals, when she steps back into the role of Bernie, beginning August 15, 2025.

In this NEW interview, Nancy is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about:

• Why she wanted to come back to Pen Pals
• Who she would write a Pen Pal letter to
• How she met her husband of 25 years
• Some behind the scenes info from The Facts of Life
• So much more

Pen Pals is the extraordinary story of two friends that unfolds over decades. With a rotating cast of renowned actors, no two performances will ever be the same.

Bernie and Mags live in two different countries, they’ve never met, and yet they’re best friends. Because they’ve been pen pals for over fifty years. Since they were teenagers, they’ve shared every aspect of their lives with each other. The trivial bits, the most intimate details, all the happiness, all the heartache. They’ve told each other things they wouldn’t dare tell another soul. Even though Bernie lives in New Jersey and Mags is from England, the women are closer to each other than anyone else in the world.

Come witness the journey of their lifetime. In their own words.

Pen Pals will run at the Daryl Roth DR2 Theater, with a rotating cast of stars, from August 15, 2025-December 21, 2025.

Nancy McKeon will be playing Bernie from August 15-31, 2025.

Click here to watch this interview in video format!

• Joe Trentacosta, JT Public Relations
• Theme Song by Bobby Cronin
• Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell
• Edited by Adam Rothenberg
• Underscore Music by Cutique

Website: www.callmeadam.com

Facebook: @CallMeAdamNYC

Instagram: @CallMeAdamNYC

An actress, director, and producer best known for playing the role of Jo Polniaczek on the beloved long-running 1980s sitcom, The Facts of Life. She starred in and produced the sitcom Can’t Hurry Love and starred with Jean Smart in the sitcom Style & Substance. She portrayed Inspector Jinny Exstead on the Lifetime police drama The Division from 2001 to 2004. She also directed two episodes.

Nancy starred in numerous made-for-TV movies in the 1980s and 1990s, some including A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story, in which she portrayed the title role of Tracey Thurman, and Firefighter portraying the first female firefighter in Los Angeles County. Strange Voices, she portrayed a woman with schizophrenia. Love, Honor and Obey; The Last Mafia Marriage, mini series with Eric Roberts.

She produced many of these movies through her film company, Forest Hills Entertainment. In 1999, she wrote and directed her own short film, A Wakening. The film won two film festival awards.

This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.

Today I am catching up with Motown Singer & Songwriter Charlene Oliver, who you know as the songstress behind the #1 song, "I've Never Been To Me," written by Ron Miller & featured in one of my favorite movies, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Charlene & I last spoke in 2020 and now I am thrilled to be speaking with Charlene once again!

In this NEW interview, Charlene is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about:

• How she came to record the global hit song, I've Never Been To Me
• Getting out of her abusive marriage
• Finding tranquility amongst the chaos of the world
• The sweetness of candy
• So much more

"I've Never Been To Me" is available to stream on all music platforms!

• Adam White & Jeff Oliver
• Theme Song by Bobby Cronin
• Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell
• Edited by Adam Rothenberg
• Underscore Music by Cutique

Website: www.callmeadam.com

Facebook: @CallMeAdamNYC

Instagram: @CallMeAdamNYC

Charlene Oliver always knew she wanted to be a singer, from her childhood in Hollywood in the late 1950s, one of two sisters in a loving family of Italian/American origin.

Charlene's first break came with the offer to join Petula Clark's backing singers at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Before long, she was auditioning in front of legendary Motown boss Berry Gordy and to her joy, being signed, the first ever white female singer to be signed to the label.

Her first song, "All That Love Went To Waste," came out in 1974, followed by two albums on the Motown label. Then writer Ron Miller persuaded Charlene to record his song, "I've Never Been To Me," in 1977, but the single only just scraped into the Top 100.

By the early 1980s, Charlene's career seemed to be stalling and she had left the US to move to her second husband Jeff's home in Essex, England, where she found work in the local sweetshop.

It was there that she heard, in 1982, that a Florida DJ had been pushing her song so much that it had been re-released, and was finally hitting the charts. Within a few weeks, the singer found herself back at the top, as the song hit #1 in country after country all over the world, and she left her Essex sweetshop to fly on the Concorde to perform internationally.

The growing international success of the musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert has confirmed her as a hugely popular singer amongst the gay community, and recently she released a new club version of her iconic song in association with Eye Witness.

Charlene's story has it all: the stars, the fame, the struggle, the pain.

If you weren't able to attend the LIVE talkback after Crystal Skillman's play OPEN at WP Theater in NYC on Friday, July 18, 2025, you can listen to the replay here!

This talkback was Hosted by Call Me Adam's Adam Rothenberg, and Featured Playwright Crystal Skillman & OPEN Star, Actress Megan Hill.

Crystal & Megan went Behind-The-Curtain with Adam about the creation of Crystal's play OPEN & how magic plays a part in their lives.

They also answered a few questions from the audience.

In this interview, Crystal & Megan are Baring It All with Call Me Adam about:

• How Crystal came to write the play OPEN
• How Megan prepares for this emotional story every night
• If there's been a time when they wished magic could have helped me
• If they could cast a spell on their own life, what would they want it to do for them
• So much more

In OPEN, a woman called The Magician appears to perform tricks, but there’s no illusion—she’s attempting the impossible: saving her partner, Jenny.

OPEN is a powerful, funny, and deeply moving play about love’s ability to defy hate in magical ways.

OPEN runs through July 27, 2025 at WP Theater in New York City. Click Here for tickets!

• Crystal Skillman
• Megan Hill
• Theme Song by Bobby Cronin
• Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell
• Filmed by Lou Baron

Crystal Skillman is an internationally award-winning playwright, fictional podcast writer, and comic book author who has written for Stories Podcast (Wondery Kids), Girl Tales, Adventure Time comics, as well as Marvel comics.

In addition to OPEN and The Rocket Men, Crystal is the dramatist of RAIN AND ZOE SAVE THE WORLD & co-writer with Bobby Cronin for the award winning musical Mary & Max.

She also wrote the book for the NYTimes Critics’ Pick plays GEEK, CUT, and KING KIRBY which you can listen to on Broadway Podcast Network.

As an actor, Megan Hill primarily does new work, having originated roles in the World Premieres of Crystal Skillman’s OPEN; Amy Staats’ EDDIE AND DAVE, Mara Nelson Greenberg’s DO YOU FEEL ANGER?, Leah Nanako Winkler’s KENTUCKY, and Rob Askins’ HAND TO GOD, to name a few.

As a writer, Megan's play THE LAST CLASS: A JAZZERCIZE PLAY has had acclaimed runs in New York, DC, and Seattle.

In 2019, Megan was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her portrayal of David Lee Roth in the hit Off-Broadway show EDDIE AND DAVE.

Meagn was also named one of the Best Comedic Performances of 2019 by the New York Times.

This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols.

Today I am catching up with three-time Emmy Award Winner Cady McClain, who you know for playing Dixie Martin on ABC's Soap Opera All My Children & more recently, Pamela Curtis on CBS' Daytime Drama, Beyond The Gates!

Cady & I last spoke in 2024 when she was starring in Austin Pendleton’s play Orson’s Shadow and now I am thrilled to be speaking with Cady once again as she returns to the theatrical stage to be directed by Austin Pendleton in Walter John Thompson’s What Happened Was which will be playing in the Chain Theatre’s Summer One Act Festival for 3 performances ONLY!

In this NEW interview, Cady is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about:

• How she got involved with What Happened Was
• When she has felt unseen & how she made herself more visible
• Advice she would give someone on working with their ex
• How Austin Pendleton elevates her as an actress
• So much more

In What Happened Was, a dilapidated bar that flickers between memory and imagination, two actors trapped in an endless loop confront love, regret, and the fragile line between reality, performance and the unbearable silence of being unseen.

Directed by the legendary Austin Pendleton, What Happened Was will play 3 performances ONLY - July 22, 2025, August 1 & 2, 2025.

Click here to watch this interview in video format!

• Katie Rosin, Kampfire PR
• Theme Song by Bobby Cronin
• Podcast Logo by Liam O'Donnell
• Edited by Adam Rothenberg
• Underscore Music by Cutique

Website: www.callmeadam.com

Facebook: @CallMeAdamNYC

Instagram: @CallMeAdamNYC

Cady McClain is a history-making three-time Emmy© Award winning actress, two-time Emmy© nominated director, and an accomplished producer and writer who has worked for over 40 years in film, television, and theater. She is proud to be the new Artistic Director for Axial Theatre, a twenty-four year theatrical institution dedicated to the development of new plays.

A Los Angeles Native, Cady spent 25 years living in New York City to pursue acting training and work in theatre. She studied for eight years with Master Teacher Michael Howard and was proud to be the youngest student he ever accepted into his master class. Cady went on to enjoy performing in such historic theatrical productions Off-Broadway as David Ives’ The Red Address at Second Stage, Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at Lincoln Center Theater, A Comedy of Errors at the Hudson Guild, Barefoot in the Park at the Westbury and Valley Forge Music Fair, Quiet on the Set at the Westbeth, and Self Offense at the Cucaracha Theater Company. In addition to performing in a one-woman show of Wallace Stevens poetry called Inventions of Farewell (directed by Estep Nagy) at the Here Theater in NYC, she is particularly proud of Mona7 - a short one-woman show she wrote, produced, co-directed,