Photo Flash: First Look at Fantasia, Dule Hill & More in AFTER MIDNIGHT on Broadway!
By: Nicole Rosky Nov. 01, 2013
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Producers Scott Sanders and Wynton Marsalis present After Midnight, directed and choreographed by Warren 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) with an official opening night set for Sunday, November 3, 2013.
BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the cast in action below!
The evocative After Midnight will take 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.
Photo Credit: Matthew Murphy
Daniel J. Watts, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edward and Phillip Attmore
Fantasia
Everett Bradley and the cast
Fantasia
Julius "iGlide" Chisolm and Virgil "Lil' O" Gadson
Rosena M. Hill Jackson, Bryonha Marie Parham, and Carmen Ruby Floyd
James Zollar, Art Baron and Alphonso Horne
Cast of After Midnight
Virgil "Lil' O" Gadson, Karine Plantadit and cast
Cast of After Midnight
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