Sunday, March 16, 2008

Audio suds: Eye of the Storm, Scripts and Scruples, Manhattanites, Westways, The Archers, and more…

From the Noir Dame blog:
Amazing casting certainly plays a part in ROCKLAND COUNTY, a continuing soap project created by Roger Newcomb of Loger, Inc. Each episode is recorded via telephone voice mail by the performers, a seeming limitation which actually enables many well-connected actors, as well as up-and-comers, to participate. Since Newcomb’s long-time favorite soap is the aforementioned Another World, it is a happy surprise to hear the solid soaper Kale Browne (ex-”Michael Hudson”, ANOTHER WORLD, and currently starring on Days of Our Lives) on several episodes of Rockland County.

Newcomb’s other project is SCRIPTS & SCRUPLES, which has continued for several years, most recently culminating in the connected indie film Manhattanites, a film which ended primary photography this past December. Judging by the trailer, it looks like a lot of fun for fans of soaps both past and present. I’d mention that the actors here have great chops, only it looks like someone will get chopped during the run-time of the film. Forbes March and David Fumero of ONE LIFE TO LIVE, and Aiden Turner of ALL MY CHILDREN are just some of the familiar faces here. Darnell Williams, ex-ALL MY CHILDREN, co-directs with Newcomb’s long-time collaborator Gregori J. Martin.