Cast of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS Visits THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT Tonight

The Tony Award-winning new Broadway musical An American in Paris will perform on THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT tonight, September 18 at 11:35pm ET/10:35pm CT on CBS, marking the first Broadway performance on the new late night show.

In addition to the performance, the program will feature interviews with An American in Paris director and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and stars Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope.

Other guests for the show's second week are as follows:

9/14: Emily Blunt; Justice Stephen Breyer; musical performance by The Dead Weather
9/15: Jake Gyllenhaal; musical performance by Run The Jewels with TV On The Radio
9/16: Kevin Spacey; Carol Burnett with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer of Broad City; musical performance by and interview with Willie Nelson
9/17: Naomi Watts; United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon

Inspired by the Academy-Award winning film, An American in Paris brings this classic tale to Broadway for the first time with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, a book by Craig Lucas and direction and choreography by Christopher Wheeldon. An American in Paris won four 2015 Tony Awards. The hit musical has also won four Drama Desk Awards and four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Musical, the Drama League Award for Best Musical, three Fred and Adele Astaire Awards and two Theatre World Awards.

An American in Paris is the romantic story of a young American soldier, a beautiful French girl and an indomitable European city, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war.

Photo Credit: Angela Sterling