Fifty-five years ago yesterday, Louis Armstrong gave an interview in which he spoke out publicly about Orval Faubus’ unsuccessful attempt to block the desegregation of the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas. An uncensored version of that interview is one of the key scenes in Satchmo at the Waldorf, which opens on October 3 at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre.
Long Wharf has just posted a TV ad for Satchmo at the Waldorf on YouTube. I thought you might enjoy seeing it:
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