NEW YORK — The new stage musical about Louis Armstrong on Broadway opens with the jazz icon in a rehearsal room alongside an anonymous piano player. “I get to just spend a moment in conversation with him and ask if he’s OK and hear his voice.” The younger Armstrong is making his Broadway debut in “A Wonderful World: The Louis …
NEW YORK — The new stage musical about Louis Armstrong on Broadway opens with the jazz icon in a rehearsal room alongside an anonymous piano player. “I’m so grateful and so thankful and so happy.” Behind the smile “A Wonderful World” — starring Tony Award-winner James Monroe Iglehart and sometimes James T. Lane in the title role — is a …
NEW YORK — James Monroe Iglehart’s mom took him to see the animated Disney movie “Aladdin” as a high-school graduation gift in 1992. “As long as you bring your brand of silliness and comedy and heart and realness to it, the audience will accept it.” After ‘Aladdin,” Iglehart went on to land TV and voice work, the Broadway dual roles …
