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Doc Pomus’ life is one of American music’s great untold stories. Paralyzed with polio as a child, Brooklyn-born Jerome Felder reinvented himself as a blues singer, renaming himself Doc Pomus.
He then emerged as a one of the most sucessful 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 in New York's legendary Brill Building.
The documentary, spearheaded and co-produced by his daughter Sharyn Felder, is packed with incomparable music and rare archival imagery. It also features interviews with collaborators and friends including Dr. John, Ben E. King, Joan Osborne, Shawn Colvin, Dion, Leiber and Stoller, and B.B. King, as well as passages from Doc’s private journals read by his close friend Lou Reed. ?
Ticket prices are as follows: Carte Blanche Members: free, members: $6, students and Seniors: $8, nonmembers: $11. Call the Avon business office at 203-661-0321 or the box office at 203-967-3660, Ext. 2 for tickets. The theater is at 272 Bedford St.
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