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A one-person fictionalized portrait of Louis Armstrong at the Waldorf Astoria, reflecting on his career, life under Jim Crow, relationships with manager Joe Glaser and wife Lucille Wilson, and his place in the civil-rights era.
In interwar Malaya, Leslie Crosbie shoots her neighbor Geoff Hammond and claims he tried to rape her. Her lawyer Howard Joyce learns of a letter linking Leslie and Hammond and buys it from Hammond’s mistress. Leslie admits she killed Hammond after he tried to end their affair, yet is acquitted. When her husband Robert discovers the truth, she stabs herself.
A one-person fictionalized portrait of Louis Armstrong at the Waldorf Astoria, reflecting on his career, life under Jim Crow, relationships with manager Joe Glaser and wife Lucille Wilson, and his place in the civil-rights era.
In interwar Malaya, Leslie Crosbie shoots her neighbor Geoff Hammond and claims he tried to rape her. Her lawyer Howard Joyce learns of a letter linking Leslie and Hammond and buys it from Hammond’s mistress. Leslie admits she killed Hammond after he tried to end their affair, yet is acquitted. When her husband Robert discovers the truth, she stabs herself.