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After Midnight

Streaming On Demand Jun 13 - Aug 4, 2021
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This exhilarating song and dance extravaganza is set to the swinging sounds of Duke Ellington, Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields, Harold Arlen and more and framed by the poems of Langston Hughes.

Starring Hamilton’s Christopher Jackson and Signature favorite Nova Y. Payton (Dreamgirls, Blackbeard) with direction and choreography by Jared Grimes (Broadway’s After Midnight, Signature’s Jelly’s Last Jam, Ain’t Misbehavin’), music direction by Mark G. Meadows (Ain’t Misbehavin’, Motown cabarets), and featuring 28 of the big band era’s most memorable songs including “Stormy Weather,” “I’ve Got the World on a String,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” and “It Don’t Mean a Thing,” this non-stop revue showcases the gorgeous glamour and sophisticated syncopation of the Harlem heartbeat after midnight.

“Tap-crazy? You’ll be in seventh heaven at After Midnight… the music gleams, shimmers, dances and sings with an eloquence that enthralls”
The New York Times

Conceived by Jack Viertel

Program

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A roaring success with over-the-top performances, fabulous design, and swinging music.

BroadwayWorld

Cast Members

Christopher Jackson

BROADWAY: Hamilton (Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical), We Are Freestyle Love Supreme, Holler if Ya Hear Me, After Midnight, The Bronx Bombers, In The Heights, Memphis, and The Lion King. OFF-BROADWAY: Primary Stages: Bronx Bombers; Atlantic Theater Co.: The Jammer; Second Stage: Lonely, I’m Not; 37 Arts: In the Heights; City Center Encores!: Cotton Club Parade. FILM/TV: BULL, We Are Freestyle Love Supreme, When They See Us, Person of Interest, A Gifted Man, Fringe, Gossip Girl, Tracers, Afterlife.

Nova Y. Payton

Nova Y. Payton

SIGNATURE: The Color Purple, We Shall Someday, After Midnight, Assassins, Blackbeard, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Jelly's Last Jam, La Cage aux Folles, Diner, Defying Gravity: Making of a SuperNOVA, Dreamgirls, The Best Little Whorehouse..., Xanadu, Hairspray. TOUR: 3 Mo’ Divas, Smokey Joe’s Café. DC AREA: Round House: Caroline, or Change; Shakespeare Theatre: The Amen Corner, Kiss Me, Kate; Ford's Theatre: Grace the Musical, Ragtime, Freedom’s Song; Olney Theatre: Godspell; Arena Stage: Newsies, Smokey Joe's Café; Kennedy Center: How To Succeed.... REGIONAL: ZACH Theatre: Into the Woods; The 5th: Man of La Mancha, A Night with Janis Joplin; Milwaukee Rep: Dreamgirls.

Sophia Adoum

DC AREA: Kennedy Center Millennium Stage: Icons (Choreography by Victor Abudesola); Center For The Arts: Balance/Imbalance (Choreography by Soon Ho Park), Exaltation of Larks (Choreography by Susan Shields), Bhangra Fever (Choreography by Donald Byrd), Lickety Split (Choreography by Alejandro Cerrudo), Pupil Suite (Choreography by Andrea Miller). REGIONAL: Philadelphia Underground Arts:  Judaea (Backup Duet Dancer). IG @sophiaamare_  

Phillip Attmore

BROADWAY: Hello, Dolly!; Shuffle Along…; On The 20th Century; After Midnight; Irving Berlin’s White Christmas; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; NYCC Encores!:  I Married An Angel, Me and My Girl, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. TOURS/REGIONAL:  Phillip Attmore: Moments Musicaux, Fosse, Stormy Weather, 42nd Street.  FILM/TV:  So You Think You Can Dance, The Bold and the Beautiful, Judging Amy, Sisters, Silent Tongue, Days of Our Lives, The Ellen DeGeneres Show. AWARDS:  Three-time Astaire Award Winner, ACCA Award Winner, Playbill’s Breakout Performance Award Winner, NAACP Theatre Award Nominee. 

Jessica Bennett

SIGNATURE: Blackbeard. OFF-BROADWAY: Honestly Abe, Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood. TOURS: Kennedy Center: Me…Jane; Theatreworks USA: We the People. DC AREA: Olney: Cabaret, South Pacific, Elf; Baltimore Center Stage: Lookingglass Alice; Keegan Theatre: Chicago; Toby’s Dinner Theatre: A Christmas Story, The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Artscentric: Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Chicago. REGIONAL: Stillpointe: The Last Five Years; Iron Crow: Fucking A, The Wild Party. AWARDS: Helen Hayes Nominee. EDUCATION: Ithaca College, BFA Musical Theatre.

DeWitt Fleming Jr.

SIGNATURE: Jelly’s Last Jam (Crowd, Assistant Choreography), The Scottsboro Boys (Ozie Powell, Ruby Bates, Assistant Choreography). CHOREOGRAPHY: An Evening with Phyllis Hyman, Dorothy the Musical. OFF-BROADWAY: Cotton Club Parade, Cirque Du Soliel’s Banana Shpeel, Pearl, Dutchman, Orphan Train. REGIONAL: Alliance Theater: Sophisticated Ladies. TOURS: Riverdance. TV/FILM: Boardwalk Empire (Season 4 Choreography), Smash, How to Be Single, Limitless. DANCE: Soloist with Wynton Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Marvin Hamlisch, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. EDUCATION: Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Marymount Manhattan College. Proud Capezio Athlete. www.dewittflemingjr.com

Jennie Harney-Fleming

BROADWAY: Hamilton, The Color Purple (Revival). OFF-BROADWAY: Pearl, The Musical (AUDELCO Nominee, Best Actress). NATIONAL TOUR: Motown, the Musical, We The People. REGIONAL: Dreamgirls, Thunder Knocking On the Door, The First Noel. TV/FILM: Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade (Hamilton), Silent Night in the City,  The Oz Project, BET’s Apollo Live.  www.jenharney.com 

Andre Hinds

Andre Hinds

SIGNATURE: After Midnight, The Scottsboro Boys, Crazy for You, Jesus Christ Superstar. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: Singing in the Rain, Cabaret, Matilda (Rudolpho), Elf, In the Heights, Guys & Dolls; Keegan Theater: Chicago; Toby's Dinner Theatre: Show Boat, Sister Act, Hairspray (Seaweed), Peter Pan, Addams Family, Mary Poppins (Neleus), Memphis. REGIONAL: Mill Mountain Theatre: Legally Blonde (Emmett Forrest), Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Cinderella. @dizzydrizzy87

Jodeci Milhouse

DC AREA: Dance Place: SOLE Defined’s Zaz: The Big Easy; The John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. NEW YORK: The Lincoln Center Clark Theater. INTERNATIONAL TOUR: Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Festival: SOLE Defined’s Frequency; The World Children’s Festival in Turin, Italy, DanceEncore in Quebec Canada. www.jodecimilhouse 

Solomon Parker III

Solomon Parker III

SIGNATURE: The Color Purple (Helen Hayes for Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Musical - Hayes), RENT, After Midnight, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Grand Hotel, Billy Elliot, Jesus Christ Superstar. Regional: Portland Center Stage: Hair; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival: In the Heights. DC AREA: Olney Theater: Kinky Boots; Ford’s Theatre: The Wiz, Grace the Musical, A Christmas Carol; Keegan Theatre: Legally Blonde; Toby's Dinner Theatre: Kinky Boots, Dreamgirls, Hairspray; Monumental Theatre Co: Pippin, Sunday Funday, Montgomery, Bashful; EDUCATION: Montgomery College. @thesolomonexperience

Shayla S. Simmons

Shayla S. Simmons

SIGNATURE: After Midnight, Signature Vinyl, A Motown Christmas Cabaret, Dreamgirls. NATIONAL TOURS: Core Ensemble: "Ain't I a Woman" (One Woman Show). DC AREA: Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Amen Corner; Constellation Theatre: Aida (Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical); NextStop Theatre Company: The Mountaintop; Toby’s Dinner Theatre: The Color Purple, Sophisticated Ladies. REGIONAL: Cape Fear Regional Theatre:  Ain’t Misbehavin’ ; Theatre By The Sea: The Buddy Holly Story. @onceuponashayla.

Kanysha Williams

Kanysha Williams

SIGNATURE: Ain't Misbehavin', Soul Divas, Gun and Powder. DC AREA: Ford's Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors; Arena Stage: The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence (National Tour), American Prophet, Drumfolk (National Tour); Shakespeare Theatre Company: Macbeth In Stride; Olney Theatre Center: FELA!, AD16; Round House Theatre: The Tempest; The Kennedy Center: Acoustic Rooster (National Tour). REGIONAL: Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre: Sister Act; Riverside Center for the Performing Arts: The Color Purple. EDUCATION: The Duke Ellington School of the Arts, The San Francisco Conservatory of Music; George Mason University, B.M. Music, 2014. MUSIC: Original music available for streaming on all platforms. PODCAST: Downstage Center Podcast (Host). SOCIAL MEDIA: @StrawberrySings - IG; @StrawberrySingsMusic - TikTok; @StrawberrySingsMusic - YouTube

Creative Team

Mark G. Meadows

Mark G. Meadows

Music Directed by

he/him SIGNATURE: Director of Signature Cabarets; Music Direction: The Color Purple, RENT, After Midnight, Spunk, Ain’t Misbehavin’; Jelly’s Last Jam. Apollo Productions: ELLA, An American Miracle. Kennedy Center: Acoustic Rooster REGIONAL: Oregon Shakespeare Theatre: Once on this Island. Denver Center for the Performing Arts: Choir Boy, Wildfire. LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: Associate Music Direction: The Outsiders.  ALBUMS: Be the Change, To the People, Somethin’ Good, A Child is Born. CONCERTS: Jazz at the Lincoln Center, DC Jazz Festival, Blues Alley, The Kennedy Center, Smalls Jazz, The Strathmore. INTERNATIONAL: Haiti, Russia, The Congo, Qatar, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Canada, The Caribbean. APPEARED WITH: Cynthia Erivo, Usher, Bobby McFerrin, Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington, Nicholas Payton, Kurt Elling, Ledisi. AWARDS: 2020 DC Wammies Jazz Artist of the Year, Washington City Paper’s Artist & Composer of the Year. TEACHING: American University, Shenandoah University: Jazz Instructor; Duke Ellington School of the Arts: The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. MarkGMeadows.com @MarkGMeadows

DeWitt Fleming Jr.

Assistant Choreography by

SIGNATURE: Jelly’s Last Jam (Crowd, Assistant Choreography), The Scottsboro Boys (Ozie Powell, Ruby Bates, Assistant Choreography). CHOREOGRAPHY: An Evening with Phyllis Hyman, Dorothy the Musical. OFF-BROADWAY: Cotton Club Parade, Cirque Du Soliel’s Banana Shpeel, Pearl, Dutchman, Orphan Train. REGIONAL: Alliance Theater: Sophisticated Ladies. TOURS: Riverdance. TV/FILM: Boardwalk Empire (Season 4 Choreography), Smash, How to Be Single, Limitless. DANCE: Soloist with Wynton Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Marvin Hamlisch, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. EDUCATION: Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Marymount Manhattan College. Proud Capezio Athlete. www.dewittflemingjr.com

James Gardiner

Associate Producer/Editor

SIGNATURE: Miss Saigon, Spin, Company, The Last Five Years (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Actor in a Musical), The Boy Detective Fails, The Hollow, [title of show], Chess, Les Misérables, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Merrily We Roll Along, The Witches of Eastwick, Saving Aimee. BROADWAY: Glory Days (book writer). DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Violet, Liberty Smith, A Christmas Carol (Associate Director); Olney Theatre Center: Little Shop of Horrors (2013 Helen Hayes nomination), You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown; Woolly Mammoth/UM: The Distance from Here; Kennedy Center: The Phantom Tollbooth, The Brand New Kid; Round House Theatre: A Prayer for Owen Meany; Studio Theatre: Dog Sees God. REGIONAL: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Everyman Theatre. EDUCATION: University of Maryland College Park TEACHING: George Mason University, Adjunct Instructor of Musical Theatre Performance.

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