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For Season Three of the Onus Playhouse podcast presents “Dark Lullaby,” the second episodic musical podcast (Season One was the FIRST episodic musical podcast "All is Forgiven") which lends itself even more to the radio play format. This production also stars Dayna Renee Donovan, Joobs, Ernesto Moncada, Kristen Saggau, Serene Dominic and of course San Jacinto Prison Band who reprise their original role as the musical’s pit band. It's got music! Noir moodiness! Accidental killings! There will be seven episodes in all, released weekly from November 1 to December 13. If you prefer binging them all at once, you will be able to in…yes, seven weeks.
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Dark Lullaby: Episode 7: "An Unexpected Spark"
Reynold is brought to justice for his ghastly crimes and pays the ultimate price, whatever the hell that means!
CAST
Tom Reynolds - Serene Dominic
Warden Crosley - Jim Dustan
Joanna - Kristen Saggau
Jemsek - Andrew Jemsek
Voices of School Children -Anna Maria Sanchez
Narrator - Kevin Vaughan-Brubaker
Songs in this episode include "You're Gonna Know All About Me ( Reprise), " "So Help Me Jesus" and "Detour."
All songs were written by Serene Dominic and performed by San Jacinto Prison Band
Original Cast Album available on Onus Records
Dark Lullaby was directed by Sheri Amour & Serene Dominic
Original Musical Score by Steve Asetta
Fashions by Botany 5000
Click here to stream the Original Podcast Cast Album available on Onus Records
Click here to stream the incidental musical score by Steve Asetta, also on Onus Records. -
Dark Lullaby: Episode 6: "Fancy Pants"
Reynolds hides out in a town that has gone to the dogs, or rather one dog with pink fur and a rabid following named Fancy. We'll learn about Bill Fishoff and his family and almost nothing about Psychic Bobby, the telepathic bounty hunter from Wichita Falls.
CAST
Tom Reynolds - Serene Dominic
Bill Fishoff - Mark Stinson
Honeybell Fishoff - Kristen Saggau
Riley Fishoff - Chris Doyle
Father Merv - Paisley Yanklovich
Psychic Bobby - Brodie Hubbard
Distraught Jogger - Anna Maria Sanchez
Narrator - Kevin Vaughan-Brubaker
Songs in this episode include "The Day Our Fancy Died" and "The Town Invader."
All songs were written by Serene Dominic and performed by San Jacinto Prison Band
Original Cast Album available on Onus Records
Dark Lullaby was directed by Sheri Amour & Serene Dominic
Original Musical Score by Steve Asetta
Fashions by Botany 5000
Click here to stream the Original Podcast Cast Album available on Onus Records
Click here to stream the incidental musical score by Steve Asetta, also on Onus Records. -
Dark Lullaby: Episode 5: "The Peak of Boo"
Reynolds form an uneasy alliance with Lyndetta and attempt selling Roscoe Des Moines' cream-colored Cadillac. They hole up at the Blue Willow Motel outside of Phoenix and waste no time in pretending to be a -married couple and finding out more about their actual lives.
CAST
Tom Reynolds - Serene Dominic
Lyndetta - Dayna Donovan
Narrator - Kevin Vaughan-Brubaker
Songs in this episode include " Peek-A-Boo" and "Why I Don't Deserve You."
All songs were written by Serene Dominic and performed by San Jacinto Prison Band
Lyndetta’s singing was performed by Sheridan Wood
Original Cast Album available on Onus Records
Dark Lullaby was directed by Sheri Amourr & Serene Dominic
Original Musical Score by Steve Asetta
Fashions by Botany 5000
Click here to stream the Original Podcast Cast Album available on Onus Records
Click here to stream the incidental musical score by Steve Asetta, also on Onus Records. -
Dark Lullaby: Episode 4: "Rhymes With Vendetta"
Reynolds takes on another man’s identity and comes across another man’s nightmare, in the form of a troublesome dame named Lyndetta. She has Reynold's number and never tires telling him that very number is finally up.
CAST
Tom Reynolds - Serene Dominic
Lyndetta - Dayna Donovan
Gas Attendant - Anthony Liccesse
Narrator - Kevin Vaughan-Brubaker
Songs in this episode include " I Don't Like You, Mister" and "Married Couple."
All songs were written by Serene Dominic and performed by San Jacinto Prison Band
Lyndetta’s singing was performed by Sheridan Wood
Original Cast Album available on Onus Records
Dark Lullaby was directed by Sheri Amourr & Serene Dominic
Original Musical Score by Steve Asetta
Fashions by Botany 5000
Click here to stream the Original Podcast Cast Album available on Onus Records
Click here to stream the incidental musical score by Steve Asetta, also on Onus Records. -
Dark Lullaby: Episode 2: "Crawling Papers"
Reynolds blows his job playing third siranghi from the left at a new Indian Restaurant called The Jolly Raja. Then he decides to go to Pasadena to be with Joanna again and takes an ill-fated ride with Roscoe Des Moines, a conspicuous King of the Road as ever there was one. And along the way, he learns no one will believe a penniless hitch-hiker.
Tom Reynolds - Serene Dominic
Joanna - Kristen Saggau
Mr. Punabi - Ernesto Moncada
Mr. Sunniver - Kevin Vaughn Brubaker
Roscoe Des Moines - Joobs
Narrator - Kevin Vaughan-Brubaker
Songs in this episode include "I Prefer, " "When the Woman In Your Heart Is the Woman In Your Arms" and "Please Let Me Back In Your Life."
All songs were written by Serene Dominic and performed by San Jacinto Prison Band
"When the Woman In Your Heart Is the Woman In Your Arms" was written by Serene Dominic and Ernesto Moncada
Original Cast Album available on Onus Records
Dark Lullaby was directed by Sheri Amourr & Serene Dominic
Original Musical Score by Steve Asetta
Fashions by Botany 5000
Click here to stream the Original Podcast Cast Album available on Onus Records
Click here to stream the incidental musical score by Steve Asetta, also on Onus Records.
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Dark Lullaby: Episode 1: "A Permanent Time Out"
How do you steel yourself against a random universe that seems determined to turn you into an accidental killing machine? Onus Playhouse attempts to answer that question with Dark Lullaby, the Serene Dominic musical directed for the stage by Sheri Amourr for four performances in downtown Phoenix in 2018. Our story begins in 1989 at San Jacinto Federal Prison, which periodically invites troubled teens from Lymon Juvenile Detention Facility to listen to Death Row prisoners' hard luck storied in an attempt to discourage them from a life of crime. And music. Enter Tom Reynolds, a once-gainfully employed guitar player now fronting a death row prison band. Reynolds recounts how trying to get to the West Coast to reunite with his actress girlfriend Joanna, led to a string of accidental murders.
Songs in this episode include "San Jacinto Death Row Prison Band," "Titillation" and "You're Gonna Know All About Me."
Cast:
Tom Reynolds - Serene Dominic
Warden Oliver Crosley - Jim Dustan
Stinson - Mark Stinson
Pasco - Anthony Liccesse
Jemsek - Andrew Jemsek
Joanna - Kristen Saggau
Ted Shackleford - Matt Strangwayes
Scary Foot Fetish Prisoner - TR Press
Narrator - Kevin Vaughan-Brubaker
Joanna’s singing was performed by Lisa Marmur
All songs were written by Serene Dominic and performed by San Jacinto Prison Band
Original Cast Album available on Onus Records
Dark Lullaby was directed by Sheri Amourr & Serene Dominic
Original Musical Score by Steve Asetta
Also available on Onus Records
Fashions by Botany 5000
Click here to stream the Original Podcast Cast Album available on Onus Records
Click here to stream the incidental musical score by Steve Asetta, also on Onus Records.