The Characters: Carmel
‘Luscious Lady” who could drop you with a bat of her over-shadowed eyes, powerful black man who’s single punch could knock you back to your mama’s womb. Carmel is the street. She is sexy, flashy, naughty trashy on the outside. Inside she is noble. She is Royalty. Though trouble has kicked her ass over and over, she believes in love, in triumph over adversity, in her return to fame, in the good times, the good life and the good of others.
SHE KNOWS “Fool, it’s just a phone call away, you heah what I’m tellin’ y’all?
A tall, beautiful trannny who has been working from the same Central Park bench off and on for years, there have been special times of more glamorous work in her life. She met, pal, Frankie Canton, when she was the costume seamstress and caretaker for prizefighter Joe Frazier, and his traveling musical road show, The Joe Frazier Las Vegas Review. Hard to shake the hard times for good, this play finds her on the bench again, thrilled and hopeful about a new “Thursday night Sweetie”, struttin’ her education to Frankie, as only Carmel can all about the real basics of Bein’ Somebody.
Photo: Carmel as played by Paul Oakley Stovall
Tags: 22 caliber mouth, Dynamic Theatre, Lauren Robert, Musical theatre, off broadway, Paul Oakley Stovall