Published on: Jun 17, 2014
After Midnight the Show will Close according to the official Web Site on June 29, 2014
Patti La Belle will play at the final performance, the producers were hoping to close for the Independence Day holiday week end 4th July, and reopen with Gladys Knight and Natalie Cole Headlining. The show will close at a loss, as it is thought to have cost seven million dollars to produce. After Midnight may get the opportunity to tour with various guest stars, on broadway the show ran for eight months.
After Midnight is a Broadway musical that premiered at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in 2013. The revue is based on an earlier 2011 revue, titled Cotton Club Parade, which ran in concert at Encores! in 2011 and 2012.
After Midnight is the Broadway production of Cotton Club Parade that premiered Off-Broadway at New York City Center’s Encores! concert series in November 2011, starring Amber P. Riley in 2012 as the Special Guest Star and directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle with music direction by Jazz at Lincoln Center artistic director Wynton Marsalis. Cotton Club Parade played a return engagement in November 2012 at New York City Center Encores!.The Cotton Club Parade was conceived by Jack Viertel, artistic director of “Encores!”, who said “When we started rehearsals for ‘Cotton Club Parade’ in 2011, we knew we had something very special in store for audiences. Now that we’ve wrapped up our second run of this show at City Center, I couldn’t be more proud to have the show come to Broadway.”
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The revue takes place “after midnight” in New York’s Harlem. It features jazz pieces by Duke Ellington, Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields and Harold Arlen, framed by the poetry of Langston Hughes. The show features an orchestra of 17 musicians, 25 vocalists, dancers and performers. It is headlined by a rotating list of performers.
