Baring It All with Call Me Adam

Call Me Adam/Adam Rothenberg
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As a kid with starry ambitions of working in the entertainment industry, Adam Rothenberg found a way to go behind-the-scenes with celebrities from the worlds of Film, Television, Theatre & Music for the past 15 years. Adam is the creator of the entertainment platform Call Me Adam and host of the podcast Baring It All with Call Me Adam. His unique style of interviewing has given him the opportunity to conduct more than 1,500 interviews. Adam makes his guests feel comfortable and at ease, which allows them to talk about life behind-the-curtain, sometimes revealing things they have never talked about before.

  1. Season 5: Episode 20 - Michelle Clunie Interview: Pen Pals Play Meets Queer As Folk TV Series

    AUG 21

    Season 5: Episode 20 - Michelle Clunie Interview: Pen Pals Play Meets Queer As Folk TV Series

    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 StageWhat she hopes audiences come away with after seeing Pen PalsWhat she would tell Melanie from Queer As Folk todaySomething she's never shared beforeSo 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! Special Thanks:Joe Trentacosta, JT Public RelationsTheme Song by Bobby CroninPodcast Logo by Liam O'DonnellEdited by Adam RothenbergUnderscore Music by Cutique Connect with Me:Website: www.callmeadam.com Facebook: @CallMeAdamNYC Instagram: @CallMeAdamNYC More on Michelle Clunie: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...

    29 min
  2. Season 5: Episode 19 - NEW Nancy McKeon Interview: Catching Up with Bernie From Michael Griffo's Pen Pals

    AUG 14

    Season 5: Episode 19 - NEW Nancy McKeon Interview: Catching Up with Bernie From Michael Griffo's Pen Pals

    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 PalsWho she would write a Pen Pal letter toHow she met her husband of 25 yearsSome 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! Special Thanks:Joe Trentacosta, JT Public RelationsTheme Song by Bobby CroninPodcast Logo by Liam O'DonnellEdited by Adam RothenbergUnderscore Music by Cutique Connect with Me:Website: www.callmeadam.com Facebook: @CallMeAdamNYC Instagram: @CallMeAdamNYC More on Nancy McKeon: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.

    27 min
  3. Season 5: Episode 18 - Charlene Oliver Interview - I've Been To Paradise, But I've Never Been To Me

    AUG 7

    Season 5: Episode 18 - Charlene Oliver Interview - I've Been To Paradise, But I've Never Been To Me

    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 MeGetting out of her abusive marriageFinding tranquility amongst the chaos of the worldThe sweetness of candySo much more  "I've Never Been To Me" is available to stream on all music platforms! Special Thanks:Adam White & Jeff OliverTheme Song by Bobby CroninPodcast Logo by Liam O'DonnellEdited by Adam RothenbergUnderscore Music by Cutique Connect with Me:Website: www.callmeadam.com Facebook: @CallMeAdamNYC Instagram: @CallMeAdamNYC More on Charlene Oliver: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.

    29 min
  4. BONUS EPISODE: OPEN Talkback Replay, Hosted By Call Me Adam's Adam Rothenberg & Featuring Playwright Crystal Skillman & OPEN Star Megan Hill

    JUL 24 · BONUS

    BONUS EPISODE: OPEN Talkback Replay, Hosted By Call Me Adam's Adam Rothenberg & Featuring Playwright Crystal Skillman & OPEN Star Megan Hill

    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 OPENHow Megan prepares for this emotional story every nightIf there's been a time when they wished magic could have helped meIf they could cast a spell on their own life, what would they want it to do for themSo 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! Special Thanks:Crystal SkillmanMegan HillTheme Song by Bobby CroninPodcast Logo by Liam O'DonnellFilmed by Lou Baron More on Crystal Skillman: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. More on Megan Hill: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.

    37 min
  5. Season 5: Episode 17 - Cady McClain Interview: What Happened Was Beyond The Gates and with All My Children

    JUL 17

    Season 5: Episode 17 - Cady McClain Interview: What Happened Was Beyond The Gates and with All My Children

    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 WasWhen she has felt unseen & how she made herself more visibleAdvice she would give someone on working with their exHow Austin Pendleton elevates her as an actressSo 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! Special Thanks:Katie Rosin, Kampfire PRTheme Song by Bobby CroninPodcast Logo by Liam O'DonnellEdited by Adam RothenbergUnderscore Music by Cutique Connect with Me:Website: www.callmeadam.com Facebook: @CallMeAdamNYC Instagram: @CallMeAdamNYC More on Cady McClain: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,

    30 min
  6. Season 5: Episode 16: Steve Burns Alive - Original Host of Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues

    JUL 3

    Season 5: Episode 16: Steve Burns Alive - Original Host of Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues

    This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols. Today I am catching up with Steve Burns, who you know as the original sleuth finding host of Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues. I first interviewed Steve in 2017 when he released his album Foreverywhere (alongside Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips). From 1996-2002, on camera, Steve Burns was entertaining millions of kids as the happy go-lucky host of Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues, but towards the end of his run, behind-the-scenes Steve was starting to hear multiple rumors of his death which was one of the events that led him to struggle with depression. Now, Steve his bringing his story to the theatrical stage with his solo show debut in Steve Burns Alive. In this NEW interview, Steve is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about: What life was really like behind the camera during his days on Blue's CluesHow he almost missed his opportunity to write the theme song for CBS' Young SheldonWhy he is grateful to be alive todayHow he hopes this interview will help someone who is also struggling with depressionSo much more  In Steve Burns Alive, Steve dissects the bizarre phenomenon of being mourned while still breathing. This isn't just his story—it's an excavation of how parasocial relationships shape our reality, how digital mythology replaces truth, and what happens when millions of strangers grieve a version of you that never existed. Steve Burns Alive cuts through the layers of myth and performance to expose the raw mechanics of human connection in the digital age. This is not a children's show. This isn't nostalgia. This is an unflinching forensic examination of what it means to exist in the space between who people think you are and who you actually are, and the stories we tell about the people who shaped our childhoods. Steve Burns Alive will play for 3 performances ONLY, from July 23-25, 2025 at The Club at La Mama in NYC's East Village. Click here to watch this interview in video format! Special Thanks:Emily Owens PublicityTheme Song by Bobby CroninPodcast Logo by Liam O'DonnellEdited by Adam RothenbergUnderscore Music by Cutique Connect with Me:Website: www.callmeadam.com Facebook: @CallMeAdamNYC Instagram: @CallMeAdamNYC More on Steve Burns:Steven Burns is best known as the original host of Blue’s Clues, where he spent seven surreal years solving mysteries with a cartoon dog and a talking mailbox. Then he disappeared. On purpose. Since then, Steve has released indie rock albums, toured with The Flaming Lips, wrote the theme song for Young Sheldon, been a host and storyteller for The Moth and gone massively viral by quietly breaking the internet with a heartfelt message to a generation of now-grown-up viewers.

    30 min
  7. Season 5: Episode 15: Rocking & Rolling with The Righteous Brothers’ Bucky Heard & Tim D. Lee at Mike & Mindy’s Wild Weekend Jam

    JUN 26

    Season 5: Episode 15: Rocking & Rolling with The Righteous Brothers’ Bucky Heard & Tim D. Lee at Mike & Mindy’s Wild Weekend Jam

    This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols. Today I am speaking with musical sensations Bucky Heard & Tim D. Lee, who are part of the iconic musical duo, The Righteous Brothers, alongside original member Bill Medley.  Tim has recorded and toured with The Righteous Brothers for over 35 years & is the group's current Music Director & Tour Manager. In 2016, Bucky joined The Righteous Brothers when original founding member Bill Medley reformed the group, choosing Bucky has his new singing partner. In addition to being part of The Righteous Brothers, Bucky & Tim have now teamed up to write the music and lyrics to Mark Corallo & Eileen Nelson’s Off Broadway Musical, Mike & Mindy's Wild Weekend Jam. In this interview, Bucky & Tim are Baring It All with Call Me Adam about: What it was like write the music & lyrics for Mike & Mindy's Wild Weekend JamHow the music & lyrics in this version of the show differ from previous incarnationsWhat is something they both have "Lost That Loving Feeling For"When there has been a time a song has had an "Unchained Melody"So much more  Click here to watch this interview in video format! In Mike & Mindy's Wild Weekend Jam, audiences will once again be transported into the spirited world of two dreamers—Mike and Mindy—as they juggle love, life, and a whole lot of family drama in their quest to make it big. Set in early ‘90s Brooklyn, the story follows high school sweethearts Mike and Mindy who, despite working as a plumber and hairdresser, have never let go of their dream of becoming music stars. Their weekly “Wild Weekend Jams” are a chaotic mix of music, dancing, and eccentric relatives. But when word gets out that a top music producer might stop by, tensions rise—especially with Mindy’s old-school Italian father Don, whose disapproval threatens to tear it all apart. Will love, laughter, and music be enough to hold the night—and their future—together? Mike & Mindy's Wild Weekend Jam will play the Mainstage at The Player's Theatre in NYC through July 20, 2025.

    30 min
  8. Season 5: Episode 14: Dan Watt Interview: An Entrepreneur Having EVERYBODY DANCE

    MAY 29

    Season 5: Episode 14: Dan Watt Interview: An Entrepreneur Having EVERYBODY DANCE

    This season on my podcast, Baring It All with Call Me Adam, I am spotlighting My Entertainment Idols. Today I am speaking with Emmy Winning Producer Dan Watt, whose Emmy Winning documentary EVERYBODY DANCE is a heartfelt trip inside the everyday challenges and blessings of kids living with neurological disabilities, following 5 kids, their families and dance teacher on a journey through life and toward their dance recital. After 10 years of working for Columbia Pictures and Simon Cowell, at 45-years-old, Dan Watt left his corporate job and jumped into entrepreneurship, starting his own independent production company, DancinDan Productions. In this NEW interview, Dan is Baring It All with Call Me Adam about: How he went from Performer to Independent ProducerWhy he gave up corporate life for the unknown world of entrepreneurshipThe lessons he has learned from being an entrepreneurWhy he wanted EVERYBODY DANCE to be his first documentaryHow he go to be Bea Arthur’s personal assistant (Dorothy from The Golden Girls)So much more EVERYBODY DANCE won a 2024 Emmy Award in the Independent Programming category at the 76th Annual Emmy Awards. EVERYBODY DANCE is available to watch on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, Tubi. Click here to watch this interview in video format! Special Thanks:Theme Song by Bobby CroninPodcast Logo by Liam O'DonnellEdited by Adam RothenbergUnderscore Music by Cutique Connect with Me:Website: www.callmeadam.com Facebook: @CallMeAdamNYC Instagram: @CallMeAdamNYC More on Dan Watt:Dan Watt is the 2024 Emmy Award Winning Producer & Director of the documentary EVERYBODY DANCE. Dan worked for 5 years at Columbia Pictures in the film development department on such films as HOUSE BUNNY with Anna Farris and Just Go With It with Jenifer Aniston and Adam Sandler. Dan then went on to work with Simon Cowell for 5 years starting with the documentary film about the band ONE DIRECTION titled THIS IS US.  Prior to Dan’s film career he produced Gala Fundraisers with Bea Arthur, Chita Rivera, Dixie Carter, Carol Channing and Melissa Manchester. Dan also produced Tony Nominee, Anika Larsen’s debut cd SING ME TO SLEEP and songs with Ben Vereen.  He is currently in production on an “untitled” documentary with Tony and Pulitzer Prizer wining producer Daryl Roth and a documentary with Rosie O’Donnell.

    41 min
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As a kid with starry ambitions of working in the entertainment industry, Adam Rothenberg found a way to go behind-the-scenes with celebrities from the worlds of Film, Television, Theatre & Music for the past 15 years. Adam is the creator of the entertainment platform Call Me Adam and host of the podcast Baring It All with Call Me Adam. His unique style of interviewing has given him the opportunity to conduct more than 1,500 interviews. Adam makes his guests feel comfortable and at ease, which allows them to talk about life behind-the-curtain, sometimes revealing things they have never talked about before.

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  • Creator
    Call Me Adam/Adam Rothenberg
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2025
  • Episodes
    173
  • Rating
    Clean
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