It was first announced in March when Producer Scott Rudin said that 6-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald would be returning to Broadway next spring, to star in a show that will look 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."
In an all-star lineup, 4 African American…
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