Lenox, Dixon join 'Parade'

Adriane Lenox, Brandon Victor Dixon and jazz singer Carla Prepare are most likely the artists who've signed on for "Cotton Club Parade," the initial stage outing within the partnership involving the recently refurbished NY City Center and Jazz at Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center. Lenox ("Doubt"), Dixon ("The Color Crimson"), Prepare and Jared Grimes lead the cast in the revue-like show inspired by Duke Ellington's years at Harlem venue the Cotton Club. Warren Carlyle, helmer of "Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway," directs the show, which was produced by Encores! impresario Jack Viertel with text acquired from Langston Hughes poems. Ellington tunes while others within the era will probably be displayed inside the production, with music carried out with the Jazz at Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center Orchestra and music direction with this org's a.d., Wynton Marsalis. "Parade" may have a brief sked similar to City Center's Encores! quantity of staged concert bloodstream pressure dimensions, running November. 18-22. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com