Blues in the Night

A tremendous London West End success, Players By The Sea's production of Blues in the Night is a dynamic compilation of twenty-six hot, torchy blues songs that frame and comment on three women's relationships, played by Melody Jackson, Amy Allen Farmer and Nina Waters,  and one snake of a guy played by Eugene Lindsey.

Director Jason Collins weaves their stories through music alone - and what music it is! Under the musical direction of Aaron Marshall, songs from Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Alberta Hunter, Jimmy Cox, Ida Cox and more, the music is raunchily forthright, infectiously good-humored and always classically blues. Songs include When A Woman Loves A Man, Wasted Life Blues, Lover Man, Wild Women Don't Have The Blues, and the gripping and compelling title song Blues in the Night.

The show takes place in the late 1930's in a cheap Chicago hotel located at the deserted corner of Wilson and Broadway where the three women and the saloon singer let the music that gets them through their lonely nights wash over a deserving audience before sending them back into their own nights.

Sheldon Epps' blues-drenched and jazz-painted elegy to the vulnerable solitude of these four struggling, hard-drinking, law abiding folks just trying to make it through another long, hot, humid Chicago night uses the great songs of the 1920's and 1930's to explore their lives and the history of their music. The songs have been specifically chosen to accomplish several things, but their most important function is to celebrate a great period and style of American music and to explore the influences and the roots of the jazz idiom as they grew from blues music."

Players By The Sea

Blues in the Night
By Sheldon Epps
Dates: June 13,14,,19,20,21,26,27,28 at 8:00 pm and 15 & 22 at 2:00 pm. All tickets are $25.00, no discounts apply.

For reservations call 249-0289