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Article: Lyric Stage's players help jazzy 'Side Man' really swing.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- September 19, 2000
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"Side Man," presented by the Lyric Stage Company, Boston, through Oct. 14.
"Side Man" is the story of people who master their obsessions. And the price they pay for those obsessions.
But the beauty of Warren Leight's Tony Award-winning play is that although it focuses on jazz horn players - "side men" in big bands - "Side Man" could be about any profession that consumes a person so completely there's no room for anything, or anyone, else in his life.
In the New York production, the focus was on the play's narrator Clifford, a young man remembering the toll his father's musical career had on his family. But in the Lyric Stage's current ...