Cool Blues
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 20, 2011
Closed Apr 3, 2011
Opened Mar 20, 2011
Closed Apr 3, 2011
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It is 1955. B is a black jazz musician so renowned and innovative that he only needs a single initial to identify him. We join him as he shows up unannounced to spend a fateful weekend in the apartment of, Baroness Alexandra Isabella von Templeton (Xan), one of the world's richest women. His manner and his mood shifts are as mercurial as his music. His talent at deception and self defense as agile as his ability to charm. Questions of loyalty, love, privilege, and friendship are probed as the ghosts of B's past and present demand answers. Xan vows to protect him at all costs, even if it means ignoring the advice of the doctor summoned to attend to him. Does B want to be saved? Can he be? Has he come to recuperate from recent disastrous events in order to soar into the world again, or has the burden of being a cutting edge spirit in the war against conformity and racial prejudice taken its ultimate toll?
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"No matter how hard I try, I can't get away from the Blues," says B (Marcus Naylor) in Bill Harris' engaging Cool Blues, presented by the New Federal Theatre at the Henry Street Settlement's Abrons Arts Center. A talented and influential horn player, B is nevertheless penniless. He's trying to kick a drug habit and get his career back on track after a truly horrendous year, but whether or not he can channel or escape from his personal tragedies to once again create music is uncertain.
This admittedly overwritten work is set in New York City in 1955, and begins as B has broken his friend and fellow musician Kid Welpool (Jay Ward) out of the nuthouse, so that they can play a gig. It ends dis[...]