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Tony Winner Adriane Lenox and Tony Nominee Karine Plantadit Will Join Fantasia and Dulé Hill in Broadway’s After Midnight

Dance and hip-hop stars Julius “Iglide” Chisolm and Virgil J. Gadson will round out the cast.

Bethany Rickwald

New York City

September 11, 2013

Full casting has been announced for the opening night of Broadway’s After Midnight, which will play at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre beginning October 18. Opening night will be November 3. Warren Carlyle will direct and choreograph.

Joining previously announced cast members Fantasia Barrino and Dulé Hill will be Tony Award winner Adriane Lenox, dancer Julius “Iglide” Chisolm, hip-hop’s Virgil J. Gadson, modern dancer Karine Plantadit, Michael Jackson’s tap coach Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, tap dancer Jared Grimes, Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band member Everett Bradley, Cedric Neal, T. Oliver Reid, Monroe Kent, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Rosena M. Hill Jackson, Bryonha Marie Parham, Marija Abney, Phillip Attmore, Christopher Broughton, Taeler Elyse Cyrus, C.K. Edwards, Bahiyah Hibah, Erin Moore, Justin Prescott, Desmond Richardson, Monique Smith, Daniel Watts, Danielle Herbert, and David Jennings.

After Midnight is a new production of Cotton Club Parade, which enjoyed two sold-out engagements at City Center. The musical celebrates jazz legend Duke Ellington and his years performing at the legendary Cotton Club. The production plans to revive the Cotton Club‘s tradition of featuring weekly guest stars, and will present a series of notable artists in limited-engagement appearances throughout its run. The musical features Ellington’s original arrangements, performed by a 17-piece big band that has been hand-selected by living jazz legend Wynton Marsalis.

For more information and tickets to After Midnight, click here.