.22 Caliber Mouth Review by Women Around Town
Stephanie Amy Collazo wrote a wonderful article about .22 Caliber Mouth on the the fantastic website – Woman Around Town.
.22 Caliber Mouth Concert Reviewed by Stage and Cinema’s Cindy Pierre
Cindy Pierre wrote a wonderful review in Stage and Cinema of Lauren Robert’s .22 Caliber Mouth following a special industry concert performance held June 29th and 30th in New York City.
You may read the .22 Caliber Mouth review: A Musical To Watch Out For on Stage and Cinema.
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.22 Caliber Mouth in Concert
A special industry invitation…
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The Herald Times on .22 Caliber Mouth
“Lauren Robert is one of the best singers you will hear in your lifetime”
The Herald Times
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From National Public Radio
“.22 Caliber Mouth is a .357 magnum of a musical.
Playwright / composer Lauren Robert has given the cast great flights of lingustic fancy. Her songs plumb deep emotional depths while showing an almost Sondheim feel for the setting of language.”
- NPR
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Broadway World Announces .22 Caliber Mouth Concert
Broadway World wrote a great piece about .22 Caliber Mouth on Friday May 28th. Thank you to everybody for your wonderful comments, support and encouragement.
Check out the article “.22 Caliber Mouth Invitation-Only Concert“
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.22 Caliber Mouth February Reading In NYC A Hit
“The piece is just staggeringly good”
Bill Cosgriff, Artistic Director
American Renaissance Theatre Company
“It was an amazing reading. It was great to hear that music backed up, and the actors were super! I think the play should get the Pulitzer Prize!”
Deb Armelino, Actor, Singer
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.22 Caliber Mouth Synopsis
Book By Lauren Robert/ Music by Lauren Robert/ Lyrics By Lauren Robert
additional music and lyrics by Timothy Warmen
SYNOPSIS
.22 Caliber Mouth is about the danger and power of words spoken, and the secrets that go unsaid. This is revealed to us through five broken and isolated people who when life brings together, are forever changed.
When Deanne Campino and Colin Maitlin meet in Mifflin’s bar in New York City one late afternoon, their union ignites a far too-familiar attraction and slap- and- tickle repartee’ borne of their shame-filled secret pasts. Yet, life’s mysterious timing looms large and their meeting sparks in each a hope that this time the terrible secrets that have shaped their lives might lay dormant long enough to release them to “have something”…together.
The play is ultimately about their struggle to escape the shipwrecks of their pasts and the effort to sustain enough hope to want to reach for something better.
The story holds that possibility for oneof the characters while the other is propelled by the demons of the psyche to repeat their tragic beginnings.
Three other characters complete this ensemble. Deanne’s sister Ronnie Campino manifests her own psychic injury in a dissociative way that isolates her from the world and alienates her from her sister and herself. In act II, Ronnie’s persistent attempts to connect with Deanne, force a life-changing confrontation in which Deanne insists that childhood truths be revealed. Frankie Canton, Deanne’s drug- addled, street -savvy friend from their days together in psychiatric hospitals, brings humor and a contorted form of nurturance to Deanne’s life.
Frankie conducts business from his Central Park bench office with his prostitute friend, the beautiful, transvestite, Carmel. The hopeful Carmel tries to fend off the pull of Frankie’s downward spiral. She struggles hard against her own weariness and longings for their “glamorous” past as support staff for the prizefighter Joe Frazier.
A final convergence of the five characters at a party thrown by Deanne (her first reachfor joy in years) is where the action culminates in devastating revelations that change the course of the characters lives.
MUSIC
Thirteen songs weave their way through this drama. The songs are extremely integrated with the text. They provide more access to the hurt, pain and yearning of the characters than their aggressive and defended dialog allows.
CAST BREAKDOWN
Deanne Campino: early 40’s, bright, attractive, educated, manic-depressive
Colin Maitlin: late 40’s,sexy, world-weary, hungry, secretive, incendiary
Ronnie Campino (Deanne’s sister): late 30’s, heavy, adapted, lonely
Frankie Canton (Deanne’s friend): 30-40, homeless, colorful, drug dealer, pimp
Carmel: 30-40, street-wise yet optimistic, male transvestite
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The Music
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Shipwrecks
Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert and Slats Klug
As Performed by: Lauren Robert and Tim Warmen
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Now You’ve Done It
Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert and Timothy Warmen
As Performed by: Lauren Robert and Timothy Warmen
Opening ensemble: Opening the Pandora’s Box of life
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Waiting For The Click
Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert
As Performed by: Paul Oakley Stovall
In the face of a brutal beating hope springs eternal.
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Anywhere Can Be Home
Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert
As Performed by: Aaron Berk
Living on the street, Frankie tries to make the best of it.
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All I Can Do
Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert and Timothy Warmen
As Performed by: Lauren Robert and Timothy Warmen
Deanne and Colin struggle to come to terms with their feelings for each other and their haunted pasts.
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Bein’ Somebody
Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert
As Performed by: Paul Oakley Stovall
Carmel lectures Frankie about survival in this crazy world.
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Don’t Kiss Me
Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert
As Performed by: Lauren Robert
Deanne struggles with Colin’s advances of ‘true’ intimacy.
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Risky Business
Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert
As Performed by: Lauren Robert, Paul Oakley Stovall, Danny Dolan
Deanne, Carmel and Frankie look at the risky business of love.
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I Need To Rest
Music and Lyrics: Lauren Robert
As Performed by: Lauren Robert and Timothy Warmen
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Act 1 Scene 1 – Deanne Monologue
I am the proud owner of an extremely lethal weapon. I’ve had it from the beginning. A gift from my father and mother and those who came before them. Their gift. Some call it a gift from God. Odd that such a dangerous thing, such a potent exquisitely devastating thing would have come from God…but then maybe it really did.
You gotta know how to use it. Some people really do, and I’m one of them. My skill transcends the emotion of the moment, and that’s not easy when you’re under attack…you might know that. But it’s my cool in the hottest circumstances; my ability to think and feel that gives me one hell of an edge.
It’s hard to know how I got so good.. Well, my father. Now there’s someone who knows how to avail himself of this most commodious tool…you’re thinking commode…but that’s not what it means. Anyway, he can take the most stale, moth-eaten, hackneyed piece of old armament and absolutely decimate the object of his desire. I know, desire is puzzling…but that’s the rackety nature of this weapon. It can maim, even kill the very thing you desire…even love the most! You can HURT THE THING YOU LOVE THE MOST! Listen to me, the thing. I’ll just say it. The person. Yes, flesh and soul and eyes and heart, destroyed. I am the proud owner of an extremely lethal weapon.