After Midnight

After Midnight takes the sexy, smoky glamour of the original Jazz Age and catapults it into a whole new era of heart-pounding, mind-blowing entertainment for modern Broadway audiences. Starring Dule Hill as The Host and Special Guest Star Fantasia

 

Run

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Dates	Type & Version	Theatre
Nov 03, 2013 – Jun 29, 2014	Musical, Original	Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York, NY

 

About

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Refracted through a contemporary lens, After Midnight celebrates Duke Ellington’s years at the Harlem’s famed 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 provides 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.

 

 

Cast

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Fantasia Barrino

(Oct 18, 2013 – Feb 09, 2014)

Dulé Hill
Adriane Lenox

Marija Abney
Phillip Attmore
Everett Bradley
Christopher Broughton
Julius “iGlide” Chisolm
Taeler Elyse Cyrus
C.K. Edwards
Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards
Carmen Ruby Floyd
Virgil “Lil O” Gadson
Jared Grimes
Bahiyah Hibah
Rosena M. Hill Jackson
Monroe Kent III
Erin N. Moore
Cedric Neal
Bryonha Marie Parham
Karine Plantadit
T. Oliver Reid
Desmond Richardson
Monique Smith
Daniel J. Watts

Swings: Danielle Herbert , David Jennings, Justin Prescott and Allysa Shorte

Understudies: Phillip Attmore, Danielle Herbert , Bahiyah Hibah, David Jennings, Erin N. Moore, Justin Prescott , T. Oliver Reid, Allysa Shorte and Daniel J. Watts

 

Creative

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Conceived by	Jack Viertel
Director / Choreographer	Warren Carlyle
Music Supervisor	Daryl Waters
Scenic Designer	John Lee Beatty
Costume Design	Isabel Toldeo
Lighting Design	Howell Binkley
Sound Design	Peter Hylenski
Hair and Wigs	Charles G Lapointe
Producers
Scott Sanders Productions, Wynton Marsalis, Roy Furman, Candy Spelling, Starry Night Productions,Allan S Gordon, Adam S, Gordon, Hal Newman, James L Nederlander, Robert K Kraft,Catherine and Fred Adler, Robert Appel, Jeffrey Bolton, Scott M Delman, James Fantaci, Ted Liebowitz, Stephanie P McClelland, Sandy Block, Carol Fineman, Marks-Moore-Turnbull Group, Stephen and Ruth Hendel, Tom Kirdahy

 

Video

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Duke Ellington

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Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras. His career spanned over 50 years, leading his orchestra from 1923 until death.

Though widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington himself embraced the phrase “beyond category” as a “liberating principle,” and referred his music to the more general category of “American Music,” rather than to a musical genre such as “jazz.”^[2] Born in Washington, D.C., he was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onwards, and gained a national profile through his orchestra’s appearances at the Cotton Club. In the 1930s they toured in Europe.

Some of the musicians who were members of Ellington’s orchestra, such as saxophonist Johnny Hodges, are still, in their own right, considered to be among the best players in jazz, but it was Ellington who melded them into the best-known jazz orchestral unit in the history of jazz. Several members of the orchestra remained members for several decades. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm record format, Ellington often composed specifically for the style and skills of his individual musicians, such as “Jeep’s Blues” for Hodges, and “Concerto for Cootie” for trumpeter Cootie Williams, which later became “Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me” with Bob Russell’s lyrics.

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