Eyewitness Blues
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 21, 2005
Closed Apr 10, 2005
Opened Mar 21, 2005
Closed Apr 10, 2005
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Running Time:
1hr. 25min.
1hr. 25min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
This is the story of a hard-luck horn player named Junior, who comes to life in this original work by Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz. Using elements often outside the focus of mainstream theater - blues, flamenco, and spoken-word poetry - Eyewitness Blues explores and expands the very forms that theater can take.
Mildred Ruiz and Steven Sapp, two of the collaborators from Universes, the group behind NYTW's 2001 production of Slanguage, have joined forces with arrangers/composers Carlos Pimentel, Paul Thompson and Antoine Drye (Thompson and Drye provide live musical accompaniment) to create an affecting portrait of artists and the vibrant culture, traditions, and personal experience they bring to their work.
Beginning March 28: Monday @ 7pm, Wednesday - Friday @ 8pm, Saturday @ 5pm & 10pm, Sunday @ 3pm & 7pm
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"Have you ever held a horn player's breath in your hand?" asks a muse (Mildred Ruiz) in Eyewitness Blues, written and performed by Ruiz and Steven Sapp. The show mixes music and spoken word to tell the story of a trumpet player named Junior McCullough (Sapp). As the musician takes a breath before blowing his horn, his muse comes to visit.
While the writers/performers probably intended their show to be a meditation on the creative life and artistic spirit, this experimental work never hits the right note. The play does not attempt to tell a linear narrative; instead we get fragments of monologues, elliptical poems, and snatches of music. The muse tells the audience that she's looking for pie[...]