This is Episode Three of our Coffy Town Radio Theater show, Players & Pearls at Club Surrender, on Storytime with Lady. That’s me — Seamstress to the sparkling jewels of Coffy Town, Concierge of Lady’s Room, and owner of Lady’s Presents. [Pause] Storytime with Lady: Players & Pearls at Club Surrender is part of the Holter Intellectual Property Curriculum. The script and songbook by Jessica Holter are available in print through CoffyBooks dot com. [Break] Okay, so… On the last episode, curiosity and suspicion drifted like guilty dust motes through the tense atmosphere of Club Surrender as the question dangled on the stage under an empty spotlight... [asks suspiciously] WHERE is Ruby? Club Surrender's headliner Ruby Laroo disappeared inexplicably after her first song, forcing club owner Lucy Sapphire to come out of retirement and perform, and causing me to call Detective Jimmy to investigate. [Break] In this episode, Detective Jimmy arrives to find out that our Coffy Town Players and Pearls are as resistant as they are resilient. Far be it for something like a missing person’s case to stand in the way of Funky John’s plan to get back in position as the show director. [break] With the Club’s survival hanging on a thread, this was his best chance to undo the damage he’d done when he was Lucy’s leading man. Welcome to Players and Pearls at Club Surrender ... Storytime with Lady, Episode Three.

Storytime with Lady: Players & Pearls at Club Surrender — Part 2, Act I: The Show

(Written by Jessica Holter)

Welcome back to Coffy Town, where the lights burn low, the secrets run deep, and every performer carries a story behind their smile. In Part 2 of Players & Pearls at Club Surrender, the curtain finally rises on the full show — a night of music, mystery, and unexpected turns.

This episode opens with our Radio Announcer setting the tone for a Black Noir evening inside Lucy’s legendary nightclub. From there, we step into the spotlight with Ruby LaRoux, Lotta Moxi, and the Coffy Shop Band as they deliver the kind of performances that make Club Surrender feel alive again.

But just as the night hits its stride, something goes wrong.

Ruby disappears.

The band vamps. The crowd murmurs. Skawla tries to hold the room together. And backstage, Lucy learns the truth.

Lady confirms what she already knows in her bones — Ruby is gone. And with that, the promise Ruby once made becomes the only path forward: “If anything ever happens to me… call Detective Jimmy.”

This installment closes with Jimmy getting the call that will pull him back into the world he thought he left behind — and straight into the heart of Club Surrender’s unfolding mystery.

• Radio Announcer opens the night

• Ruby LaRoux takes the stage

• Lotta Moxi performs Sugar’s Home

• The crowd realizes Ruby is missing

• Lucy steps into the spotlight

• Lady makes the call that changes everything

• Detective Jimmy heads to Club Surrender

• Black Noir storytelling

• Mystery and radio theater

• Character‑driven drama

• Musical storytelling

• Episodic suspense

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Welcome to Coffy Town Radio Theater, where Black Noir storytelling, immersive performance, and community ritual meet on the mic.

Storytime with Lady is our intimate narrative series, featuring Lady — bathroom attendant, healer, hustler, and truth‑teller of Coffy Town — reading from the Players & Pearls at Club Surrender Script & Songbook.

Part 1: Lady’s World brings you the first five chapters of the saga, performed in Lady’s unmistakable voice: warm, wise, weary, and wickedly observant. This is where the legend begins.

Across these chapters, you’ll travel with Lady from a trap‑house theater in Hotlanta to the shuttered doors of Club Surrender, where love, lies, loyalty, and live performance collide. You’ll meet the women who hold the city together — Lucy, Ruby, Bettie, Scarlet Falls, Unpimpable Missy, Sarah‑Sarah — and the men who complicate everything: Funky John, Detective Jimmy, Pete Prayer, and the VIP Players who keep the lights low and the secrets loud.

Included in Part 1:

• Chapter 1: Lady on Location — A surreal night of immersive theater that changes everything.

• Chapter 2: The Sister Circle — A confrontation becomes a healing ritual only women can conjure.

• Chapter 3: Lucy Running on Empty — A daughter, a legacy, and a club on the brink.

• Chapter 4: Planting Seeds — Confessions, warnings, and the quiet beginnings of trouble.

• Chapter 5: Show Night — The Players take the stage, the Pearls shine, and Coffy Town holds its breath.

This is Black Noir Radio Theater at its most intimate — a blend of storytelling, character work, and emotional truth, delivered with the smoky elegance only Lady can provide.

If you love mystery, sisterhood, immersive fiction, and the kind of storytelling that feels like a whispered confession in a bathroom mirror… Step into Storytime with Lady.

The doors to Club Surrender are open. Come on in.

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COFFY BOX ROM~COM Romantic Game Show Music - Track 2, Love in the Upper Room

COFFY BOX ROM~COM Romantic Game Show Music - Track 1, Love in the Upper Room

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Emcee Skawla returns with The Water, calling out human auditions, closed‑club rehearsals, and the power of narrative. She speaks directly to The Writer while holding down the Players & Pearls mystery and introducing Voices of Foster Care favorites: “Boxes” by Brown Viking and “Secondhand Wings” by Foster Child Unknown. Coffy Town is shifting, and Skawla stays ready.