Ketanji Brown Jackson is Broadway sure — the Supreme Courtroom justice will make her Nice White Approach debut this week as a part of a one-night-only efficiency.
The 54-year-old justice will seem in a walk-on position within the Broadway musical comedy “& Juliet” on Saturday evening, the manufacturing and a Supreme Courtroom official confirmed Monday.
Jackson — who’s lengthy expressed a want to grow to be the “first Black, female Supreme Court justice to appear on a Broadway stage,” noting the seemingly unbelievable purpose in her Harvard College school utility — will sit down for a talkback with viewers members following the present.
The “Lovely One” writer teased a doable Broadway stage look earlier this 12 months, saying in September she was “waiting for the right opportunity.”
Requested by The Atlantic if she was eyeing a selected manufacturing, Jackson replied, “Any of them. I love all manner of Broadway. Musicals are the best.”
“‘Wicked.’ I love ‘Wicked,'” she added.
“& Juliet” is a contemporary tackle William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” wherein the feminine protagonist “ditches her famous ending for a fresh beginning and a second change at life and love — her way,” in response to a promotional web site. The musical options ’90s and early aughts pop songs from the likes of Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys and Kelly Clarkson.
Zach Schonfeld contributed.
