Overview
Character Name
P-Sam
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Role Size
Lead
Time & Place
Detroit, Michigan, in a small black community known as Black Bottom on the downtown strip known as Paradise Valley. Paradise Club, 1949.
Analysis
P-Sam (a.k.a. Percussion Sam) is the drummer in Blue’s bebop band. He is outspoken and confident. He refuses to be taken advantage of, and he would rather be a leader than a follower. He and Blue have a falling out at the beginning of the play, and when P-Sam wins a lot of
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