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Ernest McCarty, Jr. is a native of Chicago, who has authored and co-authored more than 27 produced plays and musicals, and has been associated with ETA in Chicago and Quaigh Theatre in New York City before becoming Artistic Director of New Horizon Theatre in 1994. His first production, I Dreamt I Dwelt In Bloomingdales was presented at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York City in 1970. Other theatrical works produced in New York City include Dinah! Queen of the Blues, presented at the Westside Arts Theatre starring Sasha Dalton and When the Spirit Moves, starring Tony Award-winner Trazana Beverly, The Exchange and The Separate Vacation. Among his plays and musicals produced in Chicago are ...
"Ernest McCarty Jr. was born into a world of music, from the gospel singers his mother conducted to the jazz greats that frequented his hometown of Chicago in the 1940s and 1950s. A classically trained bassist, his teenage dream was to play for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but when he wasn't even allowed to audition due to his color, McCarty refused to be defeated and set his sights on the jazz circuit instead. Recollections invites you to experience the ineffable age of American jazz against the intense backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement through one man's musical journey around the world, playing alongside legends such as Erroll Garner, Oscar Brown Jr., Odetta, and Gloria Gaynor. A man of many stories, McCarty will surprise you into laughter, as well as tears, and will ensure you feel every note along the way"--Back cover
It is the winter of 1942 in NYC and Travis House, an experimental prison, where convicted women serve out the remainder of their sentences. A new resident, Agnieska Hajek becomes caught up in the secretive goings on at Travis House. Her main concern is the reunification with her son whom she gave birth to in Sivart Women's Penitentiary and was taken from her at three months old.
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