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The Connection Jack Gelber . It was first produced by the Living Theatre , directed by Living Theatre co-founder Judith Malina , designed by co-founder Julian Beck , and featured music by jazz pianist Freddie Redd .
Synopsis [ edit ]
The play has a play-within-a-play format, with characters Jim Dunn as the "producer" and Jaybird as the "writer" attempting to stage a production about the underbelly of society using "real" addicts. Some of the addicts are jazz musicians. They all (except for the "producer", "writer", and two "photographers") have one thing in common: they are waiting for their drug dealer, their "connection". The dialogue of the characters is interspersed with jazz music.
Original cast[1] [ edit ]
Jim Dunn – Leonard Hicks
Jaybird – Ira Lewis
Leach – Warren Finnerty
Solly – Jerome Raphel
Sam – John McCurry
Ernie – Garry Goodrow
1st Musician – Freddie Redd (composer, piano)
4th Musician – Jimmy Corbett (bass)
First Photographer – Louis McKenzie
Second Photographer – Jamil Zakkai
2nd Musician – Jackie McLean (alto saxophone)
3rd Musician – Clyde Harris (drums)
Harry – Henry Proach
Sister Salvation – Barbara Winchester
Cowboy – Carl Lee
Man in audience – Martin Sheen (uncredited)
Original production credits [ edit ]
Other performances of The Connection [ edit ]
Revised Cast, 1961 [ edit ]
Redd's score, new cast
Touring Cast, 1961/62 [ edit ]
Score by Cecil Payne and Kenny Drew, Conducted by Cecil Payne
Los Angeles Production [ edit ]
The score to accompany the Los Angeles production was performed by Dexter Gordon who also played "Number One Musician". He later recorded several pieces from this production for his Blue Note release Dexter Calling...
Quote (from the liner notes to the Blue Note album):
"Soul Sister," the original that launches the first side is one of the themes Dexter wrote for the score of the Hollywood version of The Connection in which he had an acting, playing, and writing role; it is the equivalent of Freddie Redd's "(Theme for) Sister Salvation"...
"I Want More", the significantly titled Gordon theme that closes the first side, is the West Coast equivalent of "O.D. (Overdose)"...
"Ernie's Theme", is the last of the three themes on this LP from Dexter's Connection score. It parallels "Music Forever".[2]
Awards and honors [ edit ]
1959–60 Village Voice Obie Awards [ edit ]
Obie Award for Best New Play
Obie Award for Best All-Around Production
Obie Award for Best Actor - Warren Finnerty
1959–60 Vernon Rice Awards [ edit ]
Vernon Rice Award for outstanding achievement in the off-broadway theatre - Jack Gelber
Grand Prix for Best Play at the Théâtre des Nations, Paris, 1961
Related works [ edit ]
Film adaptation
Recordings
The Music from "The Connection" Freddie Redd , with Freddie Redd, Jackie McLean , Michael Mattos and Larry Ritchie , February 15, 1960, Blue Note , BLP 4027 (m )/BST 84027 (s ). Released on CD, Blue Note 89392.
Music from the Connection Howard McGhee , with Tina Brooks , I. Ching (Freddie Redd), Milt Hinton and Osie Johnson
The Music from "The Connection" , rewritten score by Cecil Payne and Kenny Drew , Conducted by Cecil Payne , with Cecil Payne, Clark Terry , Bennie Green , Duke Jordan , Ron Carter and Charlie Persip , Recorded 14, 15, 16 March 1962 - Charlie Parker Records PLP 806 [3]
Other productions
London, 1960
European Tour, 1962: Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands
London, 1974, at Hampstead Theatre Club with Bill Wallis, John Ratzenberger , Harry Ditson, Mark Russel, Richard Moore, and Philip Hinton. Directed by Michael Rudman
New York, 1981, with Morgan Freeman as Cowboy
Chicago, 1992, the inaugural production of A Red Orchid Theatre, featuring Michael Shannon and Guy Van Swearingen
New York, 2009, 50th Anniversary Production at the Living Theatre, directed by Judith Malina, music director Rene McLean
Seattle, 2011, Sight by Sound productions, directed by Gavin Reub in The Little Theater
References [ edit ]
^ Liner Notes to BLP 4083
^ Douglas McLelland , Liner Notes to Cecil Payne release
General references [ edit ]
Kenneth Tynan , preface, The Connection , Grove Press, 1960
Lionel Abel , Partisan Review , Winter, 1960 - "What adds to the play's power is that the characters are so like other people, though in such a different situation from most people."
Ira Gitler , Liner notes to Blue Note BLP 4027/BST 84027
Further reading [ edit ]
External links [ edit ]
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