Satchmo at the Waldorf @ Virginia Repertory Theatre

By Terry Teachout
Directed by Rick Hammerly

Part of our Signature Season  

MAR. 1 – APR. 7, 2024
THE NOVEMBER THEATRE, MARJORIE ARENSTEIN STAGE

(804) 282-2620

Contains profanity and mature themes.

In this one-man, three character play, Richmond favorite, Jerold Solomon, portrays Louis Armstrong, the greatest of all jazz trumpeters; Joe Glaser, his white manager; and Miles Davis, who admired Armstrong’s playing, but detested his onstage manner. In 1971, in a dressing room backstage at the Empire Room of New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, four months prior to his death, Armstrong attempts to come to terms with his long-standing relationship with Glaser, whom he once loved like a father but now believes to have betrayed him. 

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