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Photos Celebrate Jitney’s Broadway Opening Night with John Legend and More Directed by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the play is part of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner’s American Century Cycle.

By Hannah Vine

January 20, 2017

Manhattan Theatre Club’s staging of August Wilson’s Jitney, directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, officially opened on Broadway January 19. The play is the only work from the late two-time Pulitzer Prize winner’s American Century Cycle that has never previously been seen on Broadway.

Flip through the photos of opening night below:

Celebrate Jitney’s Broadway Opening Night with John Legend and More

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Directed by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the play is part of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner’s American Century Cycle.
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Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_01_HR — John Legend

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_02_HR — John Legend

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_03_HR — John Legend and Mike Jackson

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_04_HR — Ben Vereen

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_06_HR — Nikki M. James

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Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_07_HR — Harry Lennix

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_08_HR — Bill Sims, Jr.

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_09_HR — Karen Wilson and Bill Sims, Jr.

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_Molly_Griggs_HR — Molly Griggs

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_11_HR — Constanza Romero

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_12_HR — Sacha Stewart-Coleman and Chad L. Coleman

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_13_HR — Leslie Uggams

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_14_HR — Leslie Uggams and Grahame Pratt

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_15_HR — Rema Webb

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_17_HR — Chuck Cooper

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_16_HR — Deborah Brevoort and Chuck Cooper

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_18_HR — Dale Soules

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_19_HR — Amirah Vann

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_21_HR — Clarke Peters

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_25_HR — Becky Ann Baker

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_24_HR — Crystal A. Dickinson

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_27_HR — Cassandra Freeman

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_30_HR — Roslyn Ruff

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_31_HR — Walter Bobbie

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_29_HR — Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Family

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_32_HR — Adriane Lenox

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_34_HR — David Gallo

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_35_HR — Lynne Meadow and Barry Grove

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_36_HR — Molly Ranson and guest

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_37_HR — Corey Stoll and Nadia Bowers

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_38_HR — Corey Stoll

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_40_HR — Moritz von Stuelpnagel

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_41_HR — Tamara Tunie

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_42_HR — Matthew Lopez

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_43_HR — LaChanze and Kecia Lewis

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_44_HR — LaChanze

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_45_HR — Kecia Lewis

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_47_HR — Terrence McNally and Tom Kirdahy

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_48_HR — Lynn Nottage and Kate Whoriskey

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_51_HR — Sharon Washington

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Arrivals_52_HR — Jennifer Ikeda

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Curtain_01_HR — Keith Randolph Smith and Anthony Chisholm

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Curtain_02_HR — The cast of Jitney

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Curtain_03_HR — Ray Anthony Thomas, Keith Randolph Smith, Anthony Chisholm, John Douglas Thompson, Brandon J. Dirden, Carra Patterson, Andre Holland, Michael Potts, and Harvy Blanks

Jitney_Opening_Night_Broadway_Curtain_04_HR — John Douglas Thompson, Brandon J. Dirden, Carra Patterson, and André Holland

Ray Anthony Thomas, Keith Randolph Smith, and John Douglas Thompson

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_02_HR — Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_25_HR — Cast

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_08_HR — Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Keith Randolph Smith, Harvy Blanks, André Holland, Michael Potts, Constanza Romero, and Brandon J. Dirden

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_07_HR — Michael Potts, John Legend, August Wilson's daughter and wife, Azula Wilson and Constanza Romero, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_09_HR — Keith Randolph Smith, Harvy Blanks, André Holland, Michael Potts, and Brandon J. Dirden

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_12_HR — Harvy Blanks

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_13_HR — André Holland, Mike Jackson, and John Legend

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_16_HR — André Holland

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_10_HR — Brandon J. Dirden

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_17_HR — Michael Potts

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_21_HR — Carra Patterson

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_19_HR — John Douglas Thompson

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_23_HR — Anthony Chisholm

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_20_HR — Lynne Meadow and Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Jitney_Opening_Night_Party_26_HR — Ruben Santiago-Hudson with the cast

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