LIL & LOUIS (a play with music) by Jo Morello

Tuesday January 21, 2020 at 7:00 PM - Sarasota

Location
Sarasota
Fellowship Hall, First Presbyterian Church, 2050 Oak Street
Sarasota, Florida 34237

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Event Details
January 21, 2020 7:00 PM
Sarasota - Sarasota, Florida
17+
Event Description

LIL & LOUIS is an intriguing play with music about the "First Couple of Jazz," LIL HARDIN ARMSTRONG and her husband LOUIS. Yes, THAT LOUIS ARMSTRONG. (www.LILandLOUIS.com)

It’s the Roaring ’20s and “Hot Miss Lil” is a star! Barely 20, she’s already a bandleader, arranger, composer, singer—and usually the only woman in Chicago’s hottest bands. As pianist with King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band she’s unimpressed when “Little Louis” Armstrong, a pudgy bumpkin with a cornet, arrives from New Orleans, but shy “Satchelmouth” wins her over. Lil becomes his friend, mentor, co-composer, arranger, manager and wife—the second of four. She is also his important but now forgotten star-maker who moved on to two more wives, yet they stayed closed until the very end.

Written by multi-award-winning playwright Jo Morello, directed by Chuck Smith of Chicago's Goodman Theatre and Sarasota's Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, and bursting with songs of the era, LIL & LOUIS is a unique love story about “the First Couple of Jazz.”

 

(contains mature content)