Onus Playhouse

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.



 

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.

In this second part of this episode, Serene speaks frankly about his worst-ever album or least loved album anyway. Cutting Tailor Modern is the sixth of eight albums he recorded for the RPM Challenge in the month of February, 2015 (where you record a whole album in 28 days).  It didn't get released so much as it escaped, with Serene trying to get other people to record the individual songs as Onus Records' Single of the Weekend instead of pushing a latest album under people's noses.

Among the topics discussed in this next  batch of songs: royalty free sax,  loss of faith, U2,  the six or seven stages of grief,  Donovan, Levi Stubbs Jr. and Richard Nixon's farewell speech to the White House staff.

Songs include "E.T.A.," "The Fight In Me," "I Am the Perpetrator," "What's 1 More Soul 2 the Devil?"  "Shoulda Never Left,"  "Passionless" and  "Come On Richard."

Click here to stream the entire Cutting Tailor Modern album.

Click here to read the backstory of The Dee Cups and hear their identical version of   "I Am the Perpetrator."

Click here to read the backstory of Donna Fortunata and hear Margo Brookover's version of "What's 1 More Soul 2 the Devil?."

Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:00 MST on facebook.com/serenedominic

Click here to learn about the history and  guidelines of The RPM Challenge.
Click here to take part in The Rpm Challenge.*

In the first part of this two-part episode, Serene speaks frankly about his worst-ever album or least loved album anyway. Cutting Tailor Modern is the sixth of eight albums he recorded for the RPM Challenge in the month of February, 2015 (where you record a whole album in 28 days).  It didn't get released so much as it escaped, with Serene trying to get other people to record the individual songs as Onus Records' Single of the Weekend instead of pushing a latest album under people's noses.

Shell-shocked from a sudden breakup and the loss of a patriarch several months before, Serene goes on a multi-song pity jag.  Among the topics discussed in this first  batch of songs: popping caps and taking Phil Collins at face value, a dance craze for the hesitant, Elvis Presley's last bowel movement and  fading songs out.
 
Songs include "Primitive Man (I Ask You)," "C'mon Do the Hesitation," "I've Known Her to Be That Way," "(You're In) Girlfriend Heaven (Now)"  "Ginger Come Running,"   and  "Our Ship Has Sailed."

Click here to stream the entire Cutting Tailor Modern album

Click here to read the backstory of The Braille Building and hear David Jensen's version of "I've Known Her to Be That Way."

Click here to read the backstory of Morbos ("The Sunnyslope Surrealist") and hear his identical version of "Ginger Come Running."

Click here to Zack Phillips' version of "Our Ship Has Sailed."

Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:00 MST on facebook.com/serenedominic

Click here to learn about the history and  guidelines of The RPM Challenge.
Click here to take part in The Rpm Challenge.

In this solo episode, Serene talks about For Your Extreme Convenience, the fifth of eight albums he recorded for the RPM Challenger in the month of February, 2014. In this album, every song either takes place in an office or is work related. Song subjects include office lovers going against their employee handbook that prohibits them from content writing, writing songs for soon-to-be-ex girfriends, working for your baby, brownnosing, getting jumped, paying the cost to be the boss and spending the night in the doghouse.

Songs include "Content," "Mañana," "Working Man," "Sweet Interference/3 PM Sugar Crash,"  "I Got Jumped," "Can I Be Forgiven Now" and "Turndown Night Service."

Click here to stream the entire For Your Extreme Convenience album

Click here to hear Adrian Evans of Sugar High's cover version of "Anti Stress Zen Garden"

Click here to read Serene's 1994 interview with The Moody Blues' John Lodge, whose landmark Days of Future Passed album was a big influence on For Your Extreme Convenience.

Click here to subscribe to the Serene Dominic YouTube channel!

Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:00 MST on facebook.com/serenedominic

In this solo episode, Serene talks about For Your Extreme Convenience, the fifth of eight albums he recorded for the RPM Challenger in the month of February, 2014. In this album, every song either takes place in an office or is work related. Song subjects include office lovers going against their employee handbook that prohibits them from dating, office pranksters, rush hour, desktop anti-stress zen gardens and Power Point!

Songs include "Snoozebar/Days of Futile Tasks," "Anti-Stress Zen Garden," Filibuster," "The Office Lovers,"  "Selfie"  and   "Come Power Pointing With Me"

Click here to stream the entire For Your Extreme Convenience album

Click here to hear Adrian Evans of Sugar High's cover version of "Anti Stress Zen Garden"

Click here to read Serene's 1994 interview with The Moody Blues' John Lodge, whose landmark Days of Future Passed album was a big influence on For Your Extreme Convenience.

Click here to subscribe to the Serene Dominic YouTube channel!

Catch Serene Dominic's weekly livecast "The Human Torch Floor Show" every Thursday at 8:00 MST on facebook.com/serenedominic