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Video Watch: See Highlights From Broadway's Pulitzer-Winning Fat Ham

James Ijames' modern take on the Shakespeare classic opens at the American Airlines Theatre April 12.

Just as the Pulitzer-winning play preps to open at the American Airlines Theatre April 12, we've got new video highlights from the disco-fied modern take on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Watch above.

Playwright James Ijames moves the story to a Southern cookout, where queer college kid Juicy has to grapple with identity questions, the ghost of his father, and a supernatural demand for vengeance. The choice laid before him? Whether to break or perpetuate cycles of trauma and violence.

Reprising their roles from the award-winning Off-Broadway run of The Public and National Black Theatre co-production are Nikki Crawford as Tedra, Chris Herbie Holland as Tio, Billy Eugene Jones as Rev and Pap, Adrianna Mitchell as Opal, Calvin Leon Smith as Larry, Marcel Spears as Juicy, and Benja Kay Thomas as Rabby; Crawford, Holland, Mitchell, Smith, and Spears are all making their Broadway debuts.

READ: In Fat Ham, James Ijames Reinvents HamletThrough a Lens of Blackness and Queerness

Joining the Broadway cast as understudies are RJ Foster, Marquis D. Gibson, Alexandria Lewis, Matthew Elijah Webb, and Rema Webb.

Saheem Ali, who directed the Off-Broadway production, also directs the Broadway staging, marking his Main Stem debut. The creative team also features the return of scenic designer Maruti Evans, costume designer Dominique Fawn Hill, sound designer Mikaal Sulaiman, choreographer Darrell Grand Moultrie, hair and wig designer Earon Chew Nealey, and illusions designer Skylar Fox. They are joined by lighting designer Bradley King, fight director Lisa Kopitsky, and singing coach Deborah Lapidus. Casting is by Kate Murray.

See Production Photos of Fat Ham on Broadway

 
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