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TABLE READ: My Lady’s Song
Written by Dan Lauria
New York. Late-night Eighth Avenue. Strip clubs, limos, politicians, porn stars, and ghosts of the old neighborhood.
My Lady’s Song drops you straight into the smoky, blood-soaked underbelly of a city that doesn’t forgive and never forgets.
Sal “The Barber” Marino is an aging ex-soldier of the streets — a limo driver who once did twelve years without talking. Now he drives high-end clients and keeps his head down. But when a powerful senator, a pair of porn stars, and a blackmail tape collide during sensitive union negotiations, Sal is pulled back into a world he thought he left behind.
This is not a nostalgia piece.
This is loyalty versus survival.
Old code versus new money.
Family versus leverage.
Set against a soundtrack style of Billie Holiday, Etta James, Dinah Washington, and Bessie Smith, My Lady’s Song moves like Goodfellas at midnight and feels like The Sopranos when the jokes stop being funny.
What starts as a simple drive to Los Angeles turns into a reckoning — with betrayal, with memory, and with the cost of keeping your mouth shut.
Nobody in podcasting is bringing this level of writing, performance, and cinematic scope.
This is prestige drama.
Performed. Not narrated.
Hollywood caliber. Start to finish.
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🎭 FULL CAST
SAL – Ronnie Marmo
An ex-con soldier turned limo driver. Hardened. Loyal. Dangerous when pushed.
CHARLIE – Sam McMurray
La Salle Limo manager. Old-school operator with a sharp tongue.
SENATOR BAXTER / THE JOHN – Joe Mantegna
Powerful, polished, and utterly ruthless. Politics meets leverage.
VINCENT – Dan Lauria
Union boss. Businessman. Architect of control.
HARA – Gia Mantegna
Young, defiant, smarter than everyone assumes.
LOTTA – Ally Dunbar
Savvy operator. Knows how to play both sides of the camera.
NARRATOR – Vanessa Richardson
A true-crime icon brings gravitas and noir elegance to the storytelling spine.
DONNA – Janelle Marmo
CARMELA – Patty McCormack
PORN DIRECTOR – Robert Wuhl
LEO – Zeke Alton
ANTHONY – Alec Leonard
With additional performances from:
Janelle Marmo
Ally Dunbar
Gia Mantegna
Zeke Alton
Alec Leonard
This cast could walk onto a soundstage tomorrow and shoot this for theatrical release. It’s that level.
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Directed by Mark Knell & Jack Levy
Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark Knell
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My ladies song, low jazz score fades in, Billy Holiday's lover man, a match lights, cigarette smolders, fade up on a city night. Some men drive for a living, some drive to forget, salad did both. Razor unsheathing, a woman's mom, a gunshot echoes, limo door slams. Sound marino had one rule, keep your hands on the wheel and your head down. But when Vince Delora calls and two women with a tape that could bring down a senator, slide into the back seat, you don't just drive, you survive. I scared a cell, the barber. He'd done but an old fucking has been with a razor in his sleeve. Slicy sound, a man screams, a dawn growls, jazz crashes into disco. Blackmail, betrayal, blood, a girl with no future, a man with no past, and a crying family
that never forgets. He saved me. This one I hate. I don't save people. I drive. That's not it. Where you end up? That's on you. From table read podcast comes a noir drenched odyssey through the underworld of sex, silence, and second chances, gunfire, screams, limo pears out, then silence. It wasn't about the money, or the girl, not really. It was about what's left, when you got nothing left to lose. My ladies song, coming soon, only on table read podcast. Bassline dropped that tone, she turned a whole club into a throne. That's my lady's song, hit that minor strong, when she stepped floor ignited, dark, groove, delvin night. That's my lady's song, played on my lawn, from the heartbreak to the heat, feel that
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