After Midnight – Locations, Tickets, Reviews
After Midnight is a celebration of Harlem’s Golden Age, centering around The Cotton Club, Harlem’s legendary nightclub. It features music performed by an orchestra of seventeen Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars, handpicked by artistic director and nine-time Grammy Award winning musician Wynton Marsalis, accompanied by an array of dance numbers, and Dule Hill (The West Wing and Psych) serving as the MC.
Each performance features a Special Guest starting with Fantasia Barreno and later including k.d. lang and Babyface and Toni Braxton, all Grammy Award winners.
Conceived by Jack Viertel and directed by Warren Carlyle, this musical showcases classic jazz tunes from legends Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Harold Arlen, and others, and prose from the great Langston Hughes.
LOCATION
Brooks Atkinson Theatre
256 West 47th Street
New York City
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RUNNING TIME
1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission
TICKETS
$70.75 – $211.00 (click here to purchase tickets from Ticketmaster, the official online ticket seller of After Midnight)
DATES
Open run
REVIEWS
New York Times
Time travel and time steps: tapping into Harlem history
New York Post
‘After Midnight’ brings class back to Broadway
Newsday
Hot jazz, no story
New York Magazine
‘After Midnight’ is worth staying up for
Theatermania
Jack Viertel’s musical tribute to the Cotton Club will make you long for a late-night visit to Harlem. I suggest you just visit the one lighting up Broadway.
New York Theater
“After Midnight” does not in any intellectual or historical way bring the Broadway audience back to the era it is supposedly depicting. Few, though, will even notice. It may not take us back in time, but “After Midnight” does transport us.
Variety
Fantasia is clearly the star of this revue, but Carmen Ruby Floyd, Rosena M. Hill Jackson and Bryonha Marie Parham, who keep showing up in funny, flirtatious incarnations of backup singers, are the show’s backbone.
Entertainment Weekly
[F]or the most part, After Midnight is a show that’s a light on its feet as its very talented ensemble.
Village Voice
Everything about After Midnight, the nightclub floor show transplanted from City Center’s Encores series that’s passing itself off as a musical, is appealing, especially the work of designers John Lee Beatty, Isabel Toledo, and Howell Binkley.
CAST & CREW
(partial list)
Conceived by Jack Viertel
Director & Choreographer Warren Carlyle
Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis