.22 Caliber Workshop
Steven Petrillo to Direct .22 Caliber Mouth
Recently the director of The Fountain of Youth, Laughter on the 23rd Floor and the Off-Broadway premier of Sessions at Playwrights Horizons, Steven Petrillo has chosen to develop Lauren Robert’s .22 Caliber Mouth for a high profile New York Production.
Please see more about Steven at his site: StevenPetrillo.com.
We look forward to bringing you more information soon.
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.22 Caliber Chosen for ARTC 2009 Spring Reading Series
After careful consideration of numerous submissions, ACT 1 SCENE 6, from .22 Caliber Mouth, featuring the song DON’T KISS ME, was chosen by The American Renaissance Theater Company for inclusion in their annual Spring Reading Series.
Auditions were recently held at Roy Arias studios in the city for the role of “Colin” to perform with writer, Lauren Robert who will be playing the role of “Deanne“.
The response to the Breakdown posting was enormous, and from that original response 15 extremely talented actors were asked to come in and read.
Rehearsals for the June 1st performance begin this coming week.
Musical accompaniment to Don’t Kiss Me in the scene will be provided by brilliant jazz guitar great, Ed Cherry formerly of Dizzy Gillespie’s Band. Lauren and Ed have shared the stage in the past as headliners for the Sedona-Jazz On the Rocks Music Festival and the Cotton Club.
See details for The ARTC 2009 Spring Reading Series Announcement
For Reservations call 212-560-2377 or email: rsvpartc@gmail.com
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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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The Characters: Deanne Campino
Deanne is a woman in her mid forties who has struggled for years with profound emotional ups and downs. Nervous breakdowns have, at times, caused her to be institutionalized. She has never lost her way so much that she could not return to society.
Keeping apartments, holding down some upscale jobs; her last, at a police pathology lab reading slides.
Though diagnosed as bi-polar and depressed, her basic innate soundness, extraordinary intelligence and a small flame of willingness to love that will not burn out, is what has managed to keep her surviving.
Attractive, funny, and sarcastic, we find her in a fugue state between the darkness of the past and the light that a new flirtation unexpectedly brings.
She lives in a crummy apartment in the lower east side, surviving on food stamps, medications and other assistance programs like SSI…or as they called it in the 70’s nut pay.
She grew up in the out skirts of Boston.
Photo: Deanne as played by Lauren Robert
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Where Do We Go From Here?
With tremendous excitement, anticipation and growing support, .22 Caliber Mouth moves swiftly toward full production.
If you wish to take part in this exciting project please contact us and we would be most pleased to speak with you.
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A Work in Progress
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.22 Caliber Mouth
Music: Timothy Warmen, Dan Dolan and Lauren Robert
Lyrics: Timothy Warmen and Lauren Robert
Arrangement: Dan Dolan
This title song which is still in the development stage embodies a harder rock-n-roll drive than other songs in the show to encompass the wavering of Colin’s world as he is exposed and those emotions that send him over the edge.
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.22 Caliber Mouth: Explosively Seductive
Somewhere on the Lower East Side in the late 1970s two brusied and battered souls reluctantly and apprehensively hook up. Relationships are a tricky business and these two world-weary veterans use words to connect, protect, and deflect their fragile existences.
In this original new musical created for the stage, the action takes place in bars, on benches and in beds through dialogue and songs. There’s a raw emotion that weaves through each offering whether its a brightand bouncy Risky B’Niss or a powerful All I Can Do or a poignant Want What I Need. The tough-talking Robert has composed songs that reflect reality complete with all its tragedy and humor and then with a beautiful voice that rises above the rafters she executes them with passion and pathos.
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The Characters: Colin Maitlin
Handsome, charming barfly, Colin Maitland’s true history remains elusive till the play’s end. Deanne never quite understands where he has come from, but he is impossible to resist. His is a unique combination of sophisticated repartee’ and blue-collar animus.
His language is often peppered with large words that he uses with ease, yet when without warning, a tsunami of blinding rage swirls into any moment, any remnant of sophistication is lost. In it’s place, is Colin’s seething blinding anguish and fury.
Colin’s soul-searching is compelling, his rawness is his realness. He can be strong and weak, tender or mean, very hot and very cold. Something, old and cruel, revealed to us as the story unfolds drives him hard frustrating his attempts to clean up his life …and his choices.
Photo: Colin Maitlin as played by Timothy Warmen
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The Setting of 22 Caliber Mouth
Tony DiOrio’s atmospheric, evocative photographs are offered as inspiration to producers, directors and set designers. The beauty of .22 CALIBER MOUTH is that it is a tale told and sung by five characters only. An unusually low number for a musical production with this degree of dynamism. The entire story takes place within the parameters of a small part of New York. The Lower East Side. The flavors of a bar, a park bench, single apartments and a hospital bed, are not difficult to replicate in any literal way.
These photos depict the world of 70s New York in which the play takes place. The flavors, the darkness. the sexy graffiti –strewn milieu where everything was quite a bit more out of control.
The possibilities in terms of lighting, staging, and sound design are endless.
