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Reinvigorated Music Reigns In Louis Armstrong Bio Premiere A Wonderful World At MiND

There are stunning actors in this premiere A Wonderful World, breath-taking choreography and visuals in this life of jazz legend Louis Armstrong as he navigates a racist world and his own fallibilities. But it’s the decades-old brass-fueled music, reinvigorated and pulsating in celebratory revels and soul-scorching ballads, that drive this achievement at Miami New Drama.

Posted on December 14, 2021 by Bill Hirschman
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The Drama Behind The Rebirth of Miami New Drama’s Satchmo Musical “A Wonderful World”

The creation of a musical always contains more drama than what ends up on the stage. But then there is the anguish and celebration that commandeered the pre-virus birth and now this winter’s resurrection of A Wonderful World that closed the night before it was to open at Miami New Drama.

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Bill Hirschman
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Miami New Drama Tunes Up Debut Of Wonderful World — A Louis Armstrong Bio-Musical

Energy suffuses rehearsals for Miami New Drama’s world premiere musical about Louis Armstrong A Wonderful World – not a revue but a highly-theatrical biography in which Armstrong’s famous numbers are infused as part of the plot or as character-revealing reveries.

Posted on February 29, 2020 by Bill Hirschman
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Satchmo At the Waldorf Reveals The Man Behind The Image

Terry Teachout’s play Satchmo at the Waldorf on view at Palm Beach Dramaworks — and directed by Teachout in his first at-bat, comes close to allowing that communion with the unvarnished, uncensored and complex human being beneath the sunny, grinning creation that the world adored as Louis Armstrong.

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Bill Hirschman
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Critic Terry Teachout Directs Own Play About Louis Armstrong For Dramaworks

If his resume wasn’t already unusually diverse for a theater critic, it might seem strange that Terry Teachout is adding “director” to his hyphenated professional description when his play Satchmo at the Waldorf opens this month at Palm Beach Dramaworks.

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Bill Hirschman
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