 That was me in the role of Jack Lewis, an up-and-coming jazz singer performing at the Green Mill in 1957. Jack Lewis is a young man who is fantastically talented, but unfortunately naive about business, romance, race, and the compromises he'll have to make to get ahead. You can hear the ambition in his voice when he sings lines like, I'm gonna bust through every lock, gonna dock in every dock, gonna ring each shiny bell,