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Photo Coverage: Fantasia, Dule Hill & AFTER MIDNIGHT Cast Celebrate Opening Night!
By: Walter McBride Nov. 04, 2013
Producers Scott Sanders and Wynton Marsalis present After Midnight, directed and choreographed byWarren Carlyle and featuring the big-band sounds of nine-time Grammy Award-winner Wynton Marsalis' Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars, After Midnight began previews on Friday, October 18, 2013 at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 W 47th St) and celebrated opening night yesterday, November 3. BroadwayWorld was there for the special night and you can check out photos from inside the after party below!
Grammy Award winner Fantasia (The Color Purple) makes her highly anticipated return to the stage alongside Emmy Award nominee Dulé Hill ("The West Wing") in After Midnight, the Broadway production of Encores' critically acclaimed Cotton Club Parade. With 25 sensational singers and dancers and an exciting roster of Special Guest Star headliners, this heart-pounding new musical brings the sexy, smoky glamour of Harlem's Golden Age to a whole new generation
The evocative After Midnight takes the sexy, smoky glamour of the original Jazz Age and catapult it into a whole new era of heart-pounding, mind-blowing entertainment for modern Broadway audiences. Refracted through a contemporary lens, After Midnight will celebrate Duke Ellington's years at the Cotton Club using his original arrangements and performed by a world-class big band of 17 musicians hand-picked by living jazz legend, Wynton Marsalis. The timeless tunes set against a narrative of Langston Hughes poetry will provide an authentic backdrop for an array of cutting-edge performances by 25 sensational vocalists and dancers, including special guest stars, whose interpretations will shatter everything you think you know about music, nightlife and Broadway.
Director Warren Carlyle
Dule Hill
Dule Hill
Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards
Julius Chisolm
Karine Platadit
Karine Platadit
Rosena M. Hill Jackson
Fantasia Barrino and Dule Hill
Fantasia Barrino and Dule Hill
Fantasia Barrino and Dule Hill
Fantasia Barrino and Dule Hill
Fantasia Barrino and Dule Hill
Fantasia Barrino and Dule Hill
Sam Shepherd and Virgil Gadson
Cedric Neal and T. Oliver Reid
Karine Platadit and Desmond Richardson
Rosena M. Hill Jackson, Bryonha Marie Parham and Carmen Ruby Floyd
C.K. Edwards and wife
Ensemble Cast
Dule Hill
Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards
Julius Chisolm
Karine Platadit
Karine Platadit
Karine Platadit
Karine Platadit
Rosena M. Hill Jackson
