AWAR of D- RS W A IN THE MUSIC OF SIDE MAN E N Y I N By Jim Reiter 7 G THE 6 T D H n choosing the pre-show music as well as the songs you’ll hear during the play, I E N A U T O leaned, of course, toward trumpet-centered charts since that is Gene’s instrument E R 67R E Iin the play. While much was culled from my personal collection of records and I N T H CDs (and of course, YouTube), an excellent resource that I use throughout the show is the Side Man: Jazz Classics from the Broadway play CD, available on Amazon and highly recommended for pure listening enjoyment. Another very fun recording is the 1969 All-Star White House Tribute to Duke Ellington, also available on Amazon (what isn’t?) and elsewhere, from which I pulled some of the pre-show music. Here are the artists you’re hearing tonight – enjoy! PRESHOW: Chet Baker/Gil Evans: Time on My Hands, Show Me, Almost Like Being in Love Duke Ellington: Take the “A” Train, Just Squeeze Me, I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart, Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me, Don’t Get Around Much Anymore, In a Mellotone Dizzy Gillespie: Salt Peanuts Tommy Dorsey: Well, Git It! ACT I: Billie Holiday: Solitude Lee Morgan: I Remember Clifford Gene Krupa: Rockin’ Chair Frank Sinatra: I Found a New Baby Louis Armstrong: St. James Infirmary Harry Belafonte: Hosanna Clifford Brown: Time Clifford Brown: Daahoud T Donald Byrd: Cristo Redentor h e INTERMISSION a t Dizzy Gillespie: Manteca e r Clifford Brown: I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You i Clifford Brown: Land’s End n 3 ACT II 6 0 Billie Holiday: Why Was I Born? º Dick Dale: Let’s Go Trippin’ Clifford Brown: A Night in Tunisia Ella Fitzgerald: Chelsea Bridge Chet Baker: It Never Entered My Mind - 12 - OCTOBER 16-31,2015 2015/2016 season THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE PRODUCTION STAFF COLONIAL Side Man is the story of a life and a family Director..................................................................................................................Jim Reiter forged in the white-hot fire of a jazz musician’s Producer........................................................................................................Wes Bedsworth PLAYERS, struggle to find and keep work. Music holds INC. these sidemen in an unrelenting grip; they Stage Manager.......................................................................................................Herb Elkin can’t live without music, and they can’t make a Assistant Stage Manager.................................................................................Hannah Sturm 108 East Street • Annapolis, MD 21401 living at it. We community theater playmakers Set Designer....................................................................................................Carol Youmans Telephone: 410-268-7373 romp and revel in a Cinderella version of that story. Stagecraft and playacting hold us Lead Carpenter...................................................................................................Dick Whaley thecolonialplayers.org in an unrelenting grip, commanding us to volunteering hours on end. Why? Quoth our Carpenters....................................Norm James, Jim Robinson, Bob Mumper, Ted Yablonski BOARD OF DIRECTORS dear Beth Whaley: “For the love of it.” Lighting Designer.....................................................................................................Eric Lund Corporate Officers: At The Colonial Players, lives, friendships, Lighting Assistants............................................................Wes Bedsworth, Frank Florentine President ...............................................Darice Clewell and even families have been molded by the Sound Designers..........................Sarah Wade (Sound Effects), Jim Reiter (Music Selection) Vice President .............................................. Herb Elkin tremendous love of theater we share. And Secretary ................................................Theresa Riffle Original Recording, Afternoon of a Faun.........Vince McCool (Trumpet), Theresa Riffle (Flute) now we celebrate several more families in the Treasurer ...............................................Kaelynn Miller making: two Players who met while performing Lighting/Sound Technicians.................................................Alley Martin, Natalie Nankervis Directors: in The Unexpected Guest in 2011 were just Costume Designers..................................................................Fran Marchand, Paige Myers Artistic ......................................................Mickey Lund married! Two other CP engagements were Education & Special Projects ...................Scott Nichols announced recently. I won’t reveal names Properties Designer.................................................................................Charlotte Robinson Human Resources ................................... Shirley Panek here, so they can tell their own stories in their Properties Assistants...............................................................Kathy Thorpe, Carol Youmans Marketing .............................................Timothy Sayles own fashion. Operations ...........................................Wes Bedsworth Hair Designer...................................................................................................Doug Dawson Production ....................................Jean Carroll Christie You learn a lot about your partner when your Set Painting..............................................................................Carol Youmans, Tom Stuckey dating cycle includes wildly creative design sessions, looming deadlines, and artistic Set Decoration.............................................................................................Judi Hilton-Hyde CP SPECIAL EVENTS differences. True character is revealed when Play Consultant....................................................................................................Steve Tobin Season Sneak Peek you see how a prospective spouse treats other Summer One Act Festival people when the fire is white-hot for weeks on Program Design........................................................................................Harlequin Designs Promising Playwright Contest end. I believe their CP courtship–or marriage Program Cover/Poster Design..........................................................Drama Queen Graphics Post Show Talk Back bootcamp!–will serve these couples well. Scholarship Award Photography..................................................................................................Colburn Images Season Celebration On behalf of the CP volunteer who directed Program Editor...................................................................................................Tom Stuckey Beth Whaley Series Side Man (did I mention we met on a CP Program Assistant...............................................................................................Nancy Long committee in 2008 and married in 2009?) and For information on these events, contact: myself, we wish these couples the most joyful [email protected] of unions. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For the love of it, Sally Johnson Jim Robinson FRONT OF HOUSE DARICE Box Office ...................................... Lynda Cunningham George Cook Bob Brewer Subscriptions ................................. Lynda Cunningham Mary Beth Yablonski Ushers.................................................. Jeanie Mincher News & Cues Editor ............................. Beth Terranova Webmasters ........................................Wes Bedsworth Anne Sharpe LIKE US ON FACEBOOK! STAY UP-TO-DATE ON WHAT'S GOING ON AT CP. - 2 - - 11 - TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS DIRECTOR’S NOTES Carol Carman Frances Dryer “What we play is life.” those expectations becomes a riff, an improv, Thank you for your support. Your generous Mr. & Mrs. Brian Hanks Skip & Midge Eastman Louis Armstrong a deliberate distortion that doesn‘t offend, but gifts help us to continue to provide Robert & Janet Downey Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gavazzi rather extends … helping us see not what is, but educational and training programs, Carol & Joe Friend Jeff & Carol Goldring Webster’s defines jazz as “American music what can be. In ourselves and in others. Or as encouragement and entertainment to all Frank & Verna Galloway Sue & Nelson Goodman developed especially from ragtime and blues Armstrong also said, “We all do 'do, re, mi,' but who are interested in dramatic arts. Ellen & Wes Gardner Natalie Green & Tim Heiks and characterized by propulsive syncopated you’ve got to find the other notes yourself.” Cynthia G. Garn Alice Riley Hall Mike & JoAnn Gidos Elizabeth Hepler rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying Each character in our story is driven by the LIFE MEMBERS Ed & Carolyn Cohee Valerie Gutterson Karen Hirakawa degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate Fred & Susan Eckert Dr. Ross & Patricia Heisman Elia & John Howser distortions of pitch and timbre.” propulsion, rhythm, ensemble, improvisation, Cdr. William R. Curtis Dr. Stephen Lisa & Richard Hillman Emily Joyce and distortion of life and of jazz. Each is Fred & Paula Fishback & Christine Killian Deborah Hoffman Eugenia Conlin Judge Hmmm. Let’s check out the key words drawn from the memories of Warren Leight, Richard Gessner Alice Kurs Dianne & Duncan Hood Lynn Landon here: Propulsive … rhythm … ensemble … a producer of TV’s Law & Order, whose 1999 & Chris Beaton Sally Larson Helena & Bill Hunter Jane Lunney Robert Giddings improvisation … distortion. play won the Tony Award and was nominated Lynne &