Amber Riley Will Join Brandon Victor Dixon, Adriane Lenox for Return Engagement of Cotton Club Parade | Playbill

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News Amber Riley Will Join Brandon Victor Dixon, Adriane Lenox for Return Engagement of Cotton Club Parade "Glee" star Amber Riley will join original cast members Brandon Victor Dixon, Jared Grimes and Adriane Lenox in the return engagement of New York City Center’s acclaimed production of Duke Ellington’s Cotton Club Parade, which will play the famed Manhattan venue Nov. 14-18.

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Conceived by Jack Viertel and presented under the auspices of City Center’s Tony Award–winning Encores! series, Cotton Club Parade will again be directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle, with music direction by Jazz at Lincoln Center artistic drrector Wynton Marsalis.

The show will feature the Jazz at Lincoln Center All Stars under the direction of Daryl Waters.

The cast will also include Alexandria “Brinae Ali” Bradley, Andrew “Dr.Ew” Carter, Kyra Da Costa, Carmen Ruby Floyd, La Tanya Hall, Jeremiah “Supaman” Haynes, Christopher Jackson, Monroe Kent III, Karine Plantadit, T. Oliver Reid and Britton Smith, with Tanya Birl, Christopher Broughton, Wilkie Ferguson, Chanon Judson, Marielys Molina, Erin Moore, Jason Samuels Smith, Monique Smith, Daniel J. Watts and J.L. Williams.

Cotton Club Parade, according to City Center, is a "Broadway-style revue celebrating Ellington’s years at the famed Harlem nightclub in the 1920s and ‘30s, when the joint was jumping with revues featuring big band swing and blues." The production features singers, dancers and variety acts, with songs by the greatest jazz composers of the time, including Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields (“I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” and “Digga Digga Doo”), a young Harold Arlen (“Stormy Weather,” “I’ve Got the World on a String,” “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,”) and Duke Ellington (“Rockin’ in Rhythm,” “Cotton Club Stomp,” “Black and Tan Fantasy,” and “Creole Love Call”).

Tickets start at $29 and will be available starting Aug. 13 at the New York City Center Box Office (West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues), through CityTix® at (212) 581-1212, or online at NYCityCenter.org.

 
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