SHANE PETERMAN, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
PRESENTS

SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF

By TERRY TEACHOUT

THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION, FREELY BASED ON FACT.

ON THE TERRY MARTIN MAIN STAGE 

SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF is 90 minutes in length & will be presented without an intermission- music, mingling, and cocktails to follow.

SETTING: MARCH of 1971, in a dressing room backstage at the Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, where Louis Armstrong performed in public for the last time, four months before his death 

SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

World Premiere Presented in Lenox, MA and New Haven, CT.  Original Off-Broadway production produced by Long Wharf Theatre (Gordon Edelstein, Artistic Director; Joshua Borenstein, Managing Director), Shakespeare & Company (Tony Simotes, Artistic Director; Nicholas J. Puma, Jr., Managing Direcotr), and Scott & Roxanne Bok, Roz & Jerry Meyer, Karen Pritzker, Ronald Guttman, Shadowcatcher Entertainment, John LaMattina, Joey Parnes, S.D. Wagner, John Johnson. 

THEATRE NAMING SPONSORS:
Anonymous, Stan Graner and Jim McBride, Kathy Messina

*Appearing through the SPT Agreement between this theatre, WaterTower Theatre, and Actors' Equity Association; the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. 

NOTE TO AUDIENCE: The videotaping or audio and/or visual recording of this production is a violation of United States Copyright Law and an actionable federal offense.

TERRY TEACHOUT (Playwright)

Terry Teachout (1956-2022) was the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal, the critic-at-large of Commentary, and the author of “Sightings,” a biweekly column for the Friday Journal about the arts in America. He also wrote about the arts on his blog, “About Last Night” and was a host of the theatre podcast, "Three On The Aisle" (www.terryteachout.com). SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF, his first play, was commercially produced Off-Broadway in 2014 and has also been staged in Lenox, Los Angeles, New Haven, Orlando, and Philadelphia. He has also written the libretti for three operas by Paul Moravec: “The Letter,” “Danse Russe,” and “The King’s Man.” His books include “Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington,” “Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong,” “All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine,” “The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken,” and “A Terry Teachout Reader.” He served on the National Council on the Arts from 2004 to 2010 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012.

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