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TT: Second cast

August 22, 2012 by Terry Teachout

I don’t often have work-related anxiety dreams, but I had a doozy of one after staggering home last night from a twelve-hour-long tech rehearsal for Satchmo at the Waldorf.
0821122005.jpgI dreamed that a second production of the show was opening next week in Syracuse, and that everyone at Shakespeare & Company, myself included, had been so busy getting ready for our opening night in Massachusetts that we’d completely forgotten to send the latest version of the script to New York so that the other actor who was playing the double role of Louis Armstrong and Joe Glaser could learn all his new lines. The funny part of the dream is that the “actor” in question was–wait for it–Little Walter. (I also dreamed that a woman was playing Armstrong and Glaser in a third production of the show, but I can’t remember any details of that part of the dream.)
The dream was so vivid that I woke up dead certain that I needed to get up at once, throw on my clothes, drive to the company office in Lenox, print out the revised script, and ship it off to Syracuse via Federal Express. Then I looked at the clock on the nightstand and saw that it was three-thirty in the morning. I laughed, rolled over, and went back to sleep.
I’m still wondering who the woman in the other production was, though….
* * *
Little Walter plays “Little Walter’s Jump” live in 1967:

TT: This is it

August 22, 2012 by Terry Teachout

In honor of the first preview performance of Shakespeare & Company’s production of Satchmo at the Waldorf, I’d like to share with you a little tune from my childhood that I always post on such occasions:

See you tonight!

TT: A week of Satchmo (III)

August 22, 2012 by Terry Teachout

Louis Armstrong and Dean Martin perform a medley of “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody,” “Sleepy Time Down South,” “Mississippi Mud,” “Down by the Riverside,” “Swanee,” “Bill Bailey,” “Gotta Travel On,” “A Hot Time in the Old Town,” and “When the Saints Go Marching In” on The Dean Martin Show in 1966, accompanied by Les Brown and His Band of Renown:

TT: Almanac

August 22, 2012 by Terry Teachout

“I like to think of them out there in the dark, watching us. Sometimes we’ll do something and they’ll laugh. Sometimes we’ll do something and they’ll cry. And maybe, one day we’ll do something so magnificent, the whole universe will get goosebumps.”
Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

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Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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