“We tell the Louis Armstrong story through each of his four wives,” star James Monroe Iglehart says. “He took a long time to understand himself.
On his Bronzeville cultural excursions that lead beyond the usual tracks, tour guide and historian Shermann “Dilla” Thomas typically pulls up his Chicago Mahogany Tours bus outside a townhouse at 421 E. 44th St. “This is a private residence now,” he told one recent group, as everyone peered across the street, “but it was also the home of Louis Armstrong.
As Iglehart tells it, the show uses these wives to describe four very different stages of Armstrong’s life, from youthful lack of self-knowledge through power struggles and creative explorations with strong, artistic women to an eventual discovery of a loving soul mate. The show features a live, onstage orchestra. It also stars Ta’Rea Campbell as Wilson, Jennie Harney-Fleming as Hardin, Brennyn Lark as Smith, and Khalifa White as Parker.
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