HAMILTON’S Christopher Jackson to star in AFTER MIDNIGHT
Photo Credit: Christopher Mueller
Signature Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for After Midnight, which will be streamed from mid-June through to early August on Broadway on Demand. The show will be the fourth production in the Signature Features 2021 Season.
After Midnight will showcase 28 of the big band era’s most famous songs framed by the poetry of Langston Hughes. The cast will be headed by Christopher Jackson and Nova Y. Payton, with direction and choreography by Jared Grimes and musical direction by Mark G. Meadows
The song and dance extravaganza will cost $35 for single stream tickets and audiences can subscribe to the Signature Features season for $200 and are available to purchase here. Once a viewing has begun, the show will be available to stream for 72 hours and a closed caption and audio described version will be available in English.
The celebration will feature songs from the likes of Duke Ellington, Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields and many more with popular songs ‘Stormy Weather’, ‘I’ve Got the World on a String’, ‘On the Sunny Side of the Street’ and ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing’.
Director and choreographer Jared Grimes said: “During these trying times, I am overwhelmingly proud to make my directorial debut on a project that was also my Broadway debut, After Midnight,our goal was to honour our ancestors and those who paved the way for us through the genius of Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes. Each day on this project we were guided by them and the many untold African American stories that showed us the way. Through our constant quest for excellence we celebrate the fact that we are more than just singers and dancers. We are a vital part of America’s past, present and future; therefore, we have something to say.”
Completing the cast and joining Jackson and Payton will be; Sophia Adoum (Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage’s Icons, Center for the Arts Balance/Imbalance), Phillip Attmore (Broadway’s Hello, Dolly; Shuffle Along), Jessica Bennett (Signature’s Blackbeard, Olney Theatre Center’s Cabaret), DeWitt Fleming Jr. (Signature’s The Scottsboro Boys, Alliance Theater’s Sophisticated Ladies), Jennie Harney-Fleming (Broadway’s Hamilton, The Color Purple), Andre Hinds (Signature’s The Scottsboro Boys, Olney Theatre Center’s Singin’ in the Rain), Jodeci Milhouse (SOLE Defined’s Zaz: The Big Easy, Frequency), Solomon Parker III (Signature’s Ain’t Misbehavin’, Ford’s Theatre’s The Wiz), Shayla S. Simmons (Signature’s Signature Vinyl, NextStop Theatre Company’s The Mountaintop), and Kanysha Williams (Signature’s Ain’t Misbehavin’, MetroStage’s The Wizard of Hip).