Archives for September 13, 2011

Here’s the scene at tonight’s tech rehearsal for Satchmo at the Waldorf. On stage is Dennis Neal, the star, who is sitting at Louis Armstrong’s dressing-room table:

Louis Armstrong and the All Stars perform “La Vie en Rose”:

“My native habitat is the Theatre—in it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the Theatre—as ants to a picnic, as the boll weevil to a cotton field.”
Joseph Mankiewicz, screenplay for All About Eve