Following popular runs at New York City Center under the title “Cotton Club Parade,” the show – a musical revue about the famed Harlem nightclub – will begin performances on Broadway in October with a new name, “After Midnight,” the producers said on Monday. No casting was announced, but the producers are in talks with Fantasia Barrino, the Grammy Award winner and American Idol champion, to join the show, according to a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal the confidential discussions. Ms. Barrino, who made her Broadway debut as a replacement Celie in the musical “The Color Purple,” recently said on NBC’s “Today” that she was returning to...
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