Jazz and Drama! 1001 Afternoons in Chicago CD Release Party!
So about two years ago, i worked on adapting "Thumbnail Lotharios" by Ben Hecht into a radio play...which was then paired with original jazz compositions. My husband also acted in the piece. The CD is finally coming out next week and there is a snazzy party to boot. Check it out... 1,001 Afternoons in Chicago CD Release Party View this email in your browser 1,001 Afternoons in Chicago CD Release Party! The sights, sounds and people who inhabited Roaring '20's Chicago inspired the now-legendary writer Ben Hecht to write a series of short stories one a day every day for a year to be published in the Chicago Daily News. The best of them have been collected as 1,001 Afternoons in Chicago and six of the best of those are the inspiration for a new radio play , perhaps the perfect medium for these colorful stories, made in a collaboration between Access Contemporary Music and Strawdog Theater. We recorded the music, we reco...