AFTER MIDNIGHT is the Broadway production of Encores' critically acclaimed Cotton Club Parade. This heart-pounding new musical brings the sexy, smoky glamour of Harlem's Golden Age to a whole new generation. At the heart of AFTER MIDNIGHT is The Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars, an orchestra of 17 world-class musicians hand-picked by nine-time Grammy Award winner Wynton Marsalis. The timeless songs of Duke Ellington and his contemporaries--woven together by the prose of Langston Hughes--provide a backdrop for cutting-edge performances by 25 sensational vocalists and dancers, including an exciting roster of Special Guest Star headliners.
This thrilling experience puts you at the center of one of Harlem's legendary nightclubs, in a hotbed of Jazz - its intoxicating rhythms, its innovative style, its unpredictable danger and fun. And, as directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle, AFTER MIDNIGHT blurs the line between past and present to prove that Jazz is more than music--it's a state of mind.
Called 'Cotton Club Parade,' it was initially a collaboration between the Jazz at Lincoln Center program and the New York City Center, and was performed at the City Center for brief runs in 2011 and 2012. The emergent 'After Midnight' is not your typical Broadway musical. But, taken on its own terms, it's thoroughly entertaining.
'After Midnight' does not make much of an attempt to impart any of the Cotton Club history. As the evening's nominal host, Mr. Hill sprinkles the evening with a few snippets of Langston Hughes's poetry, but it's incidental. Instead the focus remains squarely on music and its interpretation, by those amazing musicians, under the snappy baton of the conductor Daryl Waters, and the performers who sing, slide, scat, cartwheel and generally raise a ruckus in front of them.
2013 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Warren Carlyle |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Adriane Lenox |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revue | After Midnight |
2014 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Adriane Lenox |
2014 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical | After Midnight |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Choreographer | Warren Carlyle |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical) | Isabel Toledo |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Warren Carlyle |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) | Howell Binkley |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | After Midnight |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Warren Carlyle |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | Isabel Toledo |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Warren Carlyle |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Musical | Howell Binkley |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Ruth Hendel |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Tom Kirdahy |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Stephen Hendel |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Marks-Moore-Turnbull Group |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Carol Fineman |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Sandy Block |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Stephanie P. McClelland |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Ted Liebowitz |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | James Fantaci |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Scott M. Delman |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jeffrey Bolton |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Robert Appel |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jeffrey Bolton |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Robert Appel |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Fred Adler |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Catherine Adler |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Robert K. Kraft |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | James L. Nederlander |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Adam S. Gordon |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Allan S. Gordon |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Hal Newman |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Starry Night Entertainment |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Candy Spelling |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Roy Furman |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Wynton Marsalis |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Scott Sanders Productions |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | After Midnight |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Adriane Lenox |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Musical | Peter Hylenski |
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