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 * //'The exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between the L & N tracks and the river. The section is poor but, unlike corresponding sections in other American cities, it has a raffish charm. The houses are mostly white frame, weathered gray, with rickety outside stairs and galleries and quaintly ornamented gables. This building contains two flats, upstairs and down. Faded white stairs ascend to the entrances of both.

It is first dark of an evening early in May. The sky that shows around the dim white building is a peculiarly tender blue, almost a turquoise, which invests the scene with a kind of lyricism and gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay. You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses with their faint redolences of bananas and coffee. A corresponding air is evoked by the music of Negro entertainers at a barroom around the corner. In this part of New Orleans you are practically always just around the corner, or a few doors down the street, from a tinny piano being played with the infatuated fluency of brown fingers. This "Blue Piano" expresses the spirit of the life which goes on here.' //**

 BLUE PIANO? A cover version of some classic New Orleans blues / stride piano originally written (probably) by [|James Booker]... media type="youtube" key="8ladH0UwyNk" height="344" width="425"

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=WHY NEW ORLEANS?= Read the first parts of the wiki entry on New Orleans and see if you can work out some important characteristics of the city - its history, economic fortunes, cultural activity and so on. Is the location an important part of the play?

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