Producer Scott Rudin said today that 6-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald is returning to Broadway next March to star 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.
To be titled "Shuffle Along, Or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed," the show will have a story by George C. Wolfe, who will also direct, with choreography by Savion Glover, who last worked together with Wolfe on the 1996 hit "Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk."
Previews are to begin March 14, 2016, at the Music Box Theatre.
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