Standard Broadway
After Midnight
Music Duke Ellington, Jimmy McHugh, Harold Arlen, and others (revue of pre-existing songs)·Lyrics Dorothy Fields, Ted Koehler, Langston Hughes (poetry/text), and others·Book Jack Viertel (conceived by; no conventional book)
A Broadway musical revue conceived by Jack Viertel that celebrates Duke Ellington's years at Harlem's Cotton Club. It has no plot, using Ellington's music and a big band of jazz players to revive the nightclub's song-and-dance tradition, with rotating guest stars.
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No way to watch this one at home yet.
Not on stage right now. Add it to In the Wings and we'll tell you when it plays near you.
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