NEW YORK — Ketanji Brown Jackson has fulfilled one other certainly one of her life’s targets.
The primary Black lady to take a seat on the Supreme Court docket appeared in a Broadway present on Saturday when she took the stage in a one-night efficiency in “& Juliet.”
After the walk-on function, Jackson participated in a talkback with the viewers following the efficiency.
The present had not shared particulars about Jackson’s function. The leisure publication Deadline reported that the justice would tackle an ensemble spot that was created for her.
In her memoir “Pretty One,” which the present cited in its announcement, the justice shared that, in her utility essay to Harvard College, the place she earned her undergraduate and regulation levels, she wrote that it was her fantasy to be “the primary Black, feminine Supreme Court docket justice to look on a Broadway stage.”
“Let’s make that teenage dream come true, Justice Jackson,” the present mentioned within the submit.
In September, Jackson expressed her love for theater throughout a press tour for her memoir, singing a couple of strains from “The Wiz” throughout a sit-down with former CNN host and present “CBS Mornings” anchor Gayle King on the famed Apollo Theater, in accordance with The Related Press.
She revealed in a separate interview that, as a pupil at Harvard, she was a scene associate to future Academy Award winner Matt Damon. She recalled that the scene went effectively for her and she or he acquired rave critiques from her professor, who was much less impressed with Damon’s efficiency.
“I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, I used to be higher than Matt Damon in a scene,'” Jackson informed CBS.
“& Juliet” is a contemporary tackle “Romeo and Juliet,” and it rewrites the ending of the Shakespeare tragedy, exploring what would have occurred if Juliet didn’t die, in accordance with the present’s web site.
Described by The New York Occasions in its evaluate as a “super-poppy manufacturing,” the present options pop hits corresponding to Britney Spears’ “…Child One Extra Time” and Katy Perry’s “Roar.”
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