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Branford Marsalis Boards Broadway’s Louis Armstrong Musical To Create New Arrangements & Orchestrations, Replacing Original Team
Branford Marsalis is joining a revised music team for the upcoming fall Broadway production of A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical.
The musical, starring Tony-winner James Monroe Iglehart ( Disney’s Aladdin) as the groundbreaking jazz great, begins previews at Studio 54 on Wednesday October 16 ahead of an opening date of Monday November 11. “More thinking needs to go into how to depict the innovation and virtuosity of Satchmo’s trumpet playing,” wrote Chicago Sun-Times critic Steven Oxman in a fairly typical take. He’s credited as music curator for 2014’s starry A Raisin in the Sun featuring Denzel Washington, LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Anika Noni Rose.
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