New Broadway musical to open just months
before 40th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s death

Wynton Marsalis is one of the forces behind a new Broadway musical to open in New York this autumn. After Midnight conceived by Jack Viertel, with direction and choreography by Warren Carlyle and musical direction by Wynton Marsalis, is a new production of an existing Viertel musical called Cotton Club Parade presented in 2011 and 2012. The story is set against a narrative of Langston Hughes poetry and charts Duke Ellington’s Cotton club years with a band featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars directed by Wynton. ‘I Can't Give You Anything But Love’, ‘Stormy Weather’, and Duke’s ‘Black and Tan Fantasy’ are among the show’s numbers.