Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart stars as Louis Armstrong, narrating his life story and contributions to American culture; from his experiences with racism (notably speaking out on the Little Rock Crisis in 1957, which led to his blacklisting in Hollywood), to his many classics like (What a Wonderful World, Black and Blue and Hello Dolly!) - A Wonderful World is conceived by Christopher Renshaw and Andrew Delaplaine, with the script by Aurin Squire and co-directed by Renshaw, James Monroe Iglehart, and Christina Sajous, it's no surprise that like much of Armstrong's music - the show is a hit with critics!

Critic Reviews Of A Wonderful World

"Wonderful World is too expansive in chronological scope to delve too deeply into the crucial question of what made Armstrong such an incomparable figure in the history of American music, but with Iglehart and a fine supporting cast of excellent singer-actresses portraying Armstrong's four wives... the musical rarely gives us enough time to ponder what's being left out. What we're seeing on stage is too entertaining." - Deadline

"At the start of the new biomusical A Wonderful World, each of Armstrong's four wives calls him by a different name, as though to suggest the interior multitudes of a performer who, in public, always wore a famously broad smilepartly as an invitation to joy but partly as a mask of comedy. The musical offers a pleasing depiction of that joy and that mask, if not of those multitudes." - Time Out

"As bio-musicals go, A Wonderful World doesn't break any new ground, and the book by Aurin Squire is pretty much by-the-numbers, hitting most of the highs and lows spanning 70 years in Armstrong's storied career. But as conceived by Andrew Delaplaine along with Christopher Renshaw (who also directed), there's so much charm, artistry and buoyant entertainment here that we are riveted for the entirety of the show's two and a half hour running time." - New York Stage Review

"Book writer Aurin Squire and conceivers Andrew Delaplaine and Christopher Renshaw toggle between conventional bio-musical choices and more challenging ones, keeping A Wonderful World lively and interesting." - New York Theatre Guide