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.

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