Cheryl Kemeny

“Louder Than Words”

Book by David L. Jackins / Music & lyrics by Cheryl E. Kemeny

A musical dramedy about the transformative power of theatre set in a mental rehabilitation hospital. Witness what transpires when a graduate student receives a grant to conduct a theatre class with a hospital support group who proceeds to write and perform in their own show. The story underlines the theory that people with a stake and a purpose larger than themselves will personally grow and develop as a result. The story moves from “Cacophony” to harmony with a wistful satisfying ending.
Cacophony can make you crazy!
Disharmony, my mind is hazy
Insanity is unkind;
Profanity of the mind
If we seem a little manic;
It’s because we’re in a panic!
Out of control!
Out on a roller coaster;
Up and down, high and low;
Turn the bend, so it goes
Ever spinning, ever dinning!
Dissonance reigns!
Always take pains to explain the unexplainable,
To the elite and the untrainable.
Psychobabble to the rabble….
Noise is the rule!
And nothing rhymes.
This is the music of our times!

I’d be out of key if there was a key to adhere to;
Insanity, stand back!
Because we all fear you.
We laugh in the face of our tormentors!
Spit in the face of law and order!
We are deaf to the voice of cold, hard reason!
We howl at the moon in any season.
Noise is the rule;
Dissonance reigns!
And nothing rhymes;
This is the music of our times!