Audra McDonald back on Broadway

 

Audra McDonald back on Broadway

McDonald won a Tony the last time she was on Broadway in 2014, playing Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.

By Ap

  • Follow us on
  • google-news
  • whatsapp
  • telegram

Published: Sun 15 Mar 2015, 9:49 PM

Last updated: Thu 25 Jun 2015, 10:20 PM

Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald is returning to Broadway next year in a show that reaches back over 90 years.

Producer Scott Rudin said Thursday that McDonald will star next March in a show that looks at the making of the 1921 hit Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African-Americans.

The dance-heavy show centres on a three-way mayoralty race in a small Southern town. It played some 500 performances and attracted the likes of George Gershwin, Fanny Brice, Al Jolson and Langston Hughes.

McDonald won a Tony the last time she was on Broadway in 2014, playing Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.

She also won Tonys for Carousel, Master Class, Ragtime, A Raisin in the Sun and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.


More news from