Messiah Community Radio Talk Show

Marc Cashman waited until he was nine years old before he broke into show business. "Over a weekend, I read the story of Jack and the Beanstalk," he recalls. "Something posessed me to make it into a musical play. I wrote the dialogue and a couple of songs, and I handed it to my third grade teacher. She liked it and asked me to produce it. After she explained what that meant, I produced it and even played the lead role of Jack. It was a big success. I think that's where I go the bug." When he was 12, his parents moved from Port Jervis, N.Y., right in the middle of the Catskill Mountains, to White Plains, N.Y., close to the big city. "When I was 15 I saved money from my paper route and bought my first guitar. I just picked up where I had left off in the third grade and started writing songs. All through high school I wrote songs and performed with folk groups. I continued playing guitar and performing through my four years at the University of Buffalo. I majored in political science, thinking I wanted to be a l