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“AKA DOC POMUS” - Encore Screening!
“AKA DOC POMUS” Encore Screening
You Know His Songs. Now Hear His Story. Back by Popular Demand for One Night Only!
Thursday, January 30th at 7:30pm
General Admission Tickets: $8 advance; $10 day of show
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“One man connects Elvis, Phil Spector, Ray Charles, B.B.
King, Ben E. King, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and Dion…and nobody knows his
name was Doc Pomus.”
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Jerome Solon Felder was the most unlikely of rock & roll icons.
Paralyzed with polio as a child, Brooklyn-born Jerome Felder reinvented
himself first as a blues singer, renaming himself Doc Pomus, then
emerged as a one of the most brilliant songwriters of the early rock and
roll era, writing “Save the Last Dance for Me,” “This Magic Moment,” “A
Teenager in Love,” “Viva Las Vegas,” and dozens of other hits.
For most of his life Doc was confined to crutches and a wheelchair,
but he lived more during his sixty-five years than others could
experience in several lifetimes. A.K.A. DOC POMUS brings to life Doc’s
joyous, romantic, heartbreaking, and extraordinarily eventful journey.
In his later years, Doc was a mentor to generations of younger
songwriters, and a fierce advocate for downtrodden rhythm and blues
musicians. He wrote a thousand songs – including some of the most
recorded songs in the history of popular music – but his most lasting
gift may have been his uniquely generous spirit. “If the music industry
had a heart,” the record producer Jerry Wexler remembered, “it would be
Doc Pomus.” Packed with incomparable music and rare archival imagery,
A.K.A. DOC POMUS features interviews with Doc’s collaborators and
friends, including Dr. John, Ben E. King, Joan Osborne, Shawn Colvin,
Dion, Leiber and Stoller, and B.B. King. Passages from Doc’s private
journals are read by his close friend, Lou Reed. Doc Pomus’ gripping
life story makes for a powerful and lively film that introduces this
unique American character to a new, much wider circle of admirers.
READ THE ARTS FUSE INTERVIEW WITH PETER MILLER
READ NOTED AUTHOR PETER GURALNICK’S BLOG “MAGIC & FLYING: DOC POMUS”