The great jazz trumpeter and sandpaper vocalist gets the old jukebox treatment in a new Broadway musical starring James Monroe Iglehart.

The Louis Armstrong Musical, starring a terrific James Monroe Iglehart ( Aladdin, Hamilton) as the legendary Satchmo, opens on Broadway tonight at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54, and if it doesn’t escape every pitfall of the jukebox musical,

James Monroe Iglehart stars as Satchmo in a new jukebox musical about the jazz great. But in this story, sometimes there’s too much to tell.

James Monroe Iglehart and a stellar ensemble are absolutely mesmerizing in a timely biographical musical about the life and music of Louis Armstrong.

The Louis Armstrong Musical” is a musically rich if wordy and info-heavy Broadway show that serves as a reminder of just how challenging the jukebox biographical genre can be,

What’s onstage at Studio 54 is largely a deflating and cobbled-together wife story that fails to capture Armstrong the artist.

Louis Armstrong’s famous songs sound great in a new Broadway show, even if the story of his life and illustration of his personality feel scrambled.