Side Man
by Warren Leight
Directed by Scott Chaloff '08
Produced by Alex Hemmer '08
February 16, 17, 18, 2006
The Yale Repertory Theater
The Dramat Spring Ex
cast
Clifford: Stephen Kochevar '09
Terry: Miranda Jones '06
Patsy: Iris Insogna '08
Gene: Nick Barton '08
Ziggy: Josh Odsess-Rubin '08
Al: Michael Rucker '07
Jonesy: Lee Seymour '09
production staff
Stage Manager: Eva Bitran '09
Set Designer: Alice Tai '08
Lighting Designer: Anya Kaplan-Seem '08
Costume Designer: Alice Shyy '08
Sound Designer: Liam Andrew '08
Props Master: Eric Kubo '07
Dramaturg: Lily Rothman '08
Technical Director: Alison Adams '09
Technical Director: Elysa Chao '09
Master Electrician: Ian Tattersall '08
Assistant Stage Manager: Alyssa Simmons '09
Assistant Stage Manager: Jessie Fried '09
Sound Engineer: Eric Sauerhoff '08
Associate Producer: Emily Koh '08
Assistant Producer: Rachel Plautus '09
Assistant Producer: Yotam Barkai '08
Assistant Costume Designer: Andrew Law '08
Assistant Costume Designer: Megan Stern '06
Assistant Costume Designer: Emily Koh '08
Assistant Costume Designer: Eve Burstein '08
Assistant Props Master: Danielle Torres '09
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synopsis
Warren Leight's Side Man, winner of the 1999 Tony Award for Best Play, is a comedic family drama in the tradition of Williams and O'Neill set against the backdrop of the 1950's New York jazz scene. The play tells the story of the Glimmer family: the prodigious but deeply troubled trumpet-playing father Gene, failed flutist mother Terry, and son Clifford, left to shoulder the family's burdens, from whose perspective the play is narrated. Four other characters--three of Gene's bandmates and a waitress Patsy--make their way in and out of the story. In tracing the slow demise of the Glimmers in synch with the gradual decline of the great era of jazz, Leight captures a remarkable period in the twentieth century. Like a Miles Davis solo, Side Man is at once entertaining, evocative, and haunting.