Fantasia Barrino to return to ‘After Midnight’ on Broadway

By Mark Kennedy | The Associated Press
January 08 2025 11:44 PM

CP27668725 — FILE - This undated file photo released by O&M Co. shows Fantasia Barrino in Broadway\'s "After Midnight," in New York. Producers of the show said Thursday, March 20, 2014, that the "American Idol" and Grammy Award winner, Barrino, will in May return to the musical celebrating Duke Ellington\'s years at the Cotton Club nightclub in Harlem. She will have a four-week stand, from May 13-June 8, 2014. (AP Photo/O&M Co., Matthew Murphy, file)

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Sad you missed Fantasia Barrino on Broadway in “After Midnight”? Well, good news: She can’t stay away.

Producers of the show said Thursday that the “American Idol” and Grammy Award winner will return in May to the musical celebrating Duke Ellington’s years at the Cotton Club nightclub in Harlem. She will have a four-week stint, from May 13-June 8.

The musical’s guest vocalist sings four songs “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love,” ”Stormy Weather,” ”On the Sunny Side of the Street” and “Zaz Zuh Zaz” in front of a 17-piece band picked by Wynton Marsalis.

Barrino was the first vocalist, followed by k.d. lang. Grammy Award-winners Toni Braxton and Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds team up through March 30 until Vanessa Williams takes over April 1-May 11.

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Online: http://www.aftermidnightbroadway.com

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