Play It Cool

Sexy… sultry… repressive – Hollywood 1953, an underground nightclub where everyone’s got a secret. At Mary’s Hideaway, it was a place for sizzling jazz and for the ambitious people who are finding the courage to be who they are. It is the noir time of the ’50’s, and the laws governing gay and lesbian clubs, produced every glance that had a double meaning and the words that were innuendo. Here everything had to be done to the strict code. These are some of the people who had the guts to break the rules.

Play It Cool is a hot jazz influenced musical conceived by Larry Dean Harris; with a book by Martin Casella and Larry Dean Harris; lyrics by Mark Winkler; music by Phillp Swann; with additional music by Jim Andron, Michael Cruz, Marilyn Harris, Emilio Palame, Larry Steelman. Sharon Rosen directs, with choreography by Marc Kimelman.