Photo Coverage: Inside AFTER MIDNIGHT's Opening Night Theatre Arrivals
By: Walter McBride Nov. 04, 2013
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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 the red carpet arrivals 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 ofLangston 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.
Theatre Marquee at the Broadway Opening Night Performance of 'After Midnight' at the Brooke Atkinson Theatre on November 3, 2013 in New York City.
Isabel Toledo and Ruben Toledo
Tonya Pinkins and son Miles Kelley
Tyne Daly and Tom Kirdahy
Norm Lewis and guest
Jessie Mueller and Jake Epstein
Maureen Van Zandt and Steven Van Zandt
Brandon Dixon
Brandon Dixon
Kandi Burruss
Kandi Burruss
Hugh Jackman and daughter Ava Eliot Jackman
Deborra-Lee Furness and son Oscar Maximilian Jackman
Deborra-Lee Furness and son Oscar Maximilian Jackman
Mary-Louise Parker and daughter Caroline Aberash Parker
James Roday and Timothy Omundson
James Roday and Timothy Omundson
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