S'WONDERFUL
Author's Note: This story contains 5 songs arranged, played, and sung by Harry Connick, Jr. I take no credit in the writing of the songs. Also, the characters represented in this story are completely original; please ask if by some crazy chance you actually want to use them in a story. Thanks!
::PROLOGUE::
In the early 1900's, New York City was swept up in the rhythms of ragtime and jazz played by musicians in a stretch of Harlem reaching down to Lower Manhattan. The youth of the generation were completely enraptured in this thing called 'Jazz'. The immigrants and poor folk on the Lower East Side found their escape in this music, as well as in the ever popular traveling Vaudeville shows, and would sometimes spend all of their day's pay to see the fiery performances of the Jazz Headliners.
Out of the places one could go to hear this great music, perhaps the liveliest was Club Scurvy, named for the disease that had swept through it's patrons decades earlier. Located only a few streets away, the club was one of the favorites of the Newsboys and Girls of the Duane Street Lodging House. When the unique sounds of ragtime and jazz immerged from Harlem into Lower Manhattan, the Newsies were completely wrapped up in it's rhythm and feeling. Club Scurvy was the best spot for traveling Jazz musicians, making it's own form of the Vaudeville Circuit. It's current headliner was a handsome young man, fresh out of Harlem…Ace Kingston, more commonly known as 'Mr. Jazzhands'.
It is with him that our story begins on a cold, autumn night…