Broadway‘s smash hit musical “& Juliet” will reign supreme, quite literally, when Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson takes the stage this weekend.
The trailblazing judge will fulfill another one of her life’s targets with a one-night-only, walk-on position in Saturday’s 8 p.m. present on the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
“& Juliet” on Broadway
Matthew Murphy
Lorna Courtney and forged within the musical “& Juliet” on Broadway on the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York. (Matthew Murphy)
“& Juliet,” which raked in 9 Tony Award nominations after its Broadway premiere in 2022, remixes Shakespeare’s iconic love story with chart-topping songs from uber-producer Max Martin, identified for crafting hits for stars like Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and NSYNC.
Jackson beforehand spoke about her love of theater in her just lately launched memoir, “Lovely One.”
“I, a Miami girl from a modest background with an unabashed love of theater, dreamed of one day ascending to the highest court in the land,” writes Jackson, the primary Black lady to take a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court docket. “In one of my supplemental application essays [for Harvard University] I expressed that I wished to attend Harvard as I believed it might help me to fulfill my fantasy of becoming the first Black, female Supreme Court justice to appear on a Broadway stage.”
In an Instagram put up selling her Broadway debut, the present wrote: “Let’s make that teenage dream come true, Justice Jackson.”
Throughout an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” in September, the 54-year-old justice advised Norah O’Donnell that whereas a pupil at Harvard, she was as soon as a scene accomplice to Matt Damon in drama class.
In response to Jackson, her performing chops impressed their professor excess of these of the long run Oscar winner, who was a 12 months forward of her at Harvard.
“I was like, ‘Oh my god, I was better than Matt Damon in a scene!’” Jackson mentioned with fun.
Initially Printed: December 10, 2024 at 2:10 PM EST
