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"It was too daunting," says [Jeremiah Sparks], a Toronto actor/musician, during a recent interview. "I thought it was too big for me. I'm a [Louis Armstrong] fan; my parents are Louis fans."
"I didn't want to take no for an answer," says B ggild, 51, who was the artistic director of Nova Scotia's Eastern Front Theatre when its production of The Satchmo' Suite premiered in Dartmouth in 2005. "I told him he was the guy to do it justice, and after a while he started to believe me.""It's jazz," says B ggild, who lives in Halifax. "It's the kind of songs Louis did from several periods that he sang in. We stuck our necks out writing TheSatchmo' Suite and we stuck our necks (out) even more to write all these new songs."See the full content of this document
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What a Wonderful Role
Blowing away his fears, Toronto actor and musician Jeremiah Sparks becomes Louis Armstrong in The Satchmo' Suite
By Kevin ProkoshAll actors crave juicy roles, but occasionally a role can almost be too good.The prospect of por...See the full content of this document
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