Side Man, Warren Leight
Side Man, Warren Leight
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Side Man

Author: Warren Leight

Narrator: Garret Dillahunt, Frank Wood, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/25/2010


Synopsis

A Tony Award winner for Best Play, Side Man delves deep into the postwar New York jazz underground through the life of a celebrated musician and his dysfunctional family. Warren Leight used his own experiences as the son of a jazz musician to create Gene, a talented but emotionally incompetent trumpeter whose pure devotion to music comes at the expense of his relationship with resentful wife Terry and their self-sacrificing son, Clifford.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Frank Wood as Gene
Garret Dillahunt as Clifford
Christine Lahti as Terry
Kyle Colerider-Krugh as Ziggy
Kevin Geer as Jonesy
Joseph Lyle Taylor as Al
Stephanie Zimbalist as Patsy

Directed by Stephen Sachs. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeremy on December 22, 2018

I loved the production I saw from PTC (Philadelphia Theater Company) sometime in the late 1990s. As many have highlighted, the moment when the sidemen listen, transfixed, to a Clifford Brown recording was transcendent. It was something I had never seen before. It was sublime. Twenty years later I go......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on November 01, 2022

This brought me back to high school, when I was a part of this play. Such a heavy story for high schoolers! It was fun to revisit, really heavy though.......more

Goodreads review by jo on December 13, 2023

screw you rooney, and i mean that......more

Goodreads review by Paul on March 26, 2015

Saw the Broadway production. I remember coming home and putting some Clifford Brown on the box - specifically the "last" recording (which actually wasn't the last, but the legend is a good one) referred to in the play - and some Don Joseph. I'm sure that's part of what Warren Leight intended the pla......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on May 17, 2012

A very good play. Read it.......more