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GUNMETAL BLUES Book by Scott Wentworth Licensed by Samuel French (212)206-8998 All photos by William Livingston GUNMETAL BLUES is a hard-boiled detective yarn disguised as a lounge act. Or maybe it's the other way around. Live from the Red Eye Lounge piano player and tour guide, Buddy Toupee, leads us on a voyage of mystery, murder and music as Sam Galahad searches for a missing blonde in a world of smoke and mirrors, shadows and shattered dreams. Who murdered Adrian Wasp? Was it Carol Indigo, the party girl with the big secret? Or Laura Vesper, the woman with a past? Or was it a mysterious bag lady called the Princess? Will Sam break the case before the crooked cops and the bad guys break him? Will he find the love he thought he lost? Only Buddy Toupee knows. Put a buck in his "Tips" glass. Buddy takes requests. "... intelligent and uplifting...best small scale musical we've see in a long time...brilliantly clever lyrics, and a score that could not be more captivating or sophisticated... a knowing but wistful book" -New Yorker Magazine "Stunning...Witty, acerbic, and smooth..." Philadelphia Times "...terrific script..." Philadelphia Inquirer
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Audio samples:
(more) The Blonde Song MP3 / Real / Windows Media
"...inventive and lively, in the style of vintage torch songs or jazz ballads, homages rather than echoes...many affecting moments and intriguing themes." New York Newsday Gunmetal Blues is so smoothly written and performed...clever, silly, and serious all at once... Hats off to Citiarts Theatre for importing a winner." San Francisco Chronicle "...nicely arty, angular, unpredictable ballads...clever book brims with the hilarious echoes of the flintily colored dialogue in Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett novels." Houston Post
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"Delicious, sophisticated humor!" -Dramalogue Magazine "musically more sophisticated than City of Angels, Mr. Bohmler's torchy swiveling melodies echo the moody grandeur of the 40's film- noir soundtracks." New York Times "...brilliant musical... rich and evocative; complex musically, its lyrics are poetic and imaginistic." Saint Croix Courier |
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"...crispy, economical, with funny, original lyrics." Village Voice "...transfuses freshness into an old theatrical war-horse...intelligent fun-packing an edgy comedic clout." Times-Colonist "crackling humor, rapid fire jokes, sight gags, and unabashedly pure fun."- Phoenix Gazette "Sharp and Clever...smooth as a gun-barrel and just as cool." Suburban Publication's Magazine |
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