Side Man
Finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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.
This is an LA 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, and Stephanie Zimbalist as Patsy. Directed by Stephen Sachs and recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
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