LIL & LOUIS (A PLAY WITH MUSIC) BY JO MORELLO

Wed, January 22, 2020 — 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM

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2050 Oak Street
Sarasota, Florida, 34237

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When	Wed, January 22, 2020 - 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Location	- Sarasota, Florida
Who	17+

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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.

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