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Ten Hut! See David Alan Grier, Blair Underwood & More Celebrate Opening Night of A Soldier's Play on Broadway

A Soldier's Play, Charles Fuller's 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about race and the military, made its Broadway debut at the American Airlines Theatre and took its opening night bow January 21.

Jan 23, 2020

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Blair Underwood bows with David Alan Grier, who appeared in the play's original 1981 production, as well as the 1984 movie adaptation.

Charles Fuller, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for writing A Soldier's Play, faces the Broadway crowd.

Charles Fuller shakes the hand of Douglas Turner Ward, a founding member of the Negro Ensemble Company who directed the original production of A Soldier’s Play at the seminal black theater.

Newcomer Nnamdi Asomugha and Broadway alum Jerry O'Connell take a bow.

TK and director Kenny Leon before the opening night performance began.

Peter Friedman, Steve Zettler, Brent Jennings, Cotter Smith, and Eugene Lee, all original cast members of the 1981 Negro Ensemble Company production of A Soldier's Play.

Tony winner Derek McLane, who designed the set for A Soldier's Play.

Pauletta Washington and LaTanya Richardson Jackson, the spouses of Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson, who both appeared in the original 1981 production.

Designer B Michael and Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner Cicely Tyson.

Playwright Lydia R. Diamond, whose play Stick Fly was directed by Kenny Leon at Arena Stage before it came to Broadway.

Tony Shalhoub, hot off his SAG Award win, attended the opening.

April Matthis, who starred in Lydia R. Diamond's 2019 production Toni Stone at the Roundabout.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, whose early work was inspired by Charles Fuller, poses before on opening night.

Roundabout alum Laura Osnes attends with husband Nathan Johnson.

Mary-Louise Parker, who starred in Roundabout Theater Company's The Sound Inside earlier this season (and will star in MTC's upcoming Broadway revival of How I Learned to Drive), with son William Parker.

Tony-winning costume designer Susan Hilferty.

Tony winner Phylicia Rashad, who played Lena Younger in Kenny Leon's 2004 revival of A Raisin in the Sun and 2008 movie adaptation.

Magic Johnson poses with his wife, Cookie Johnson, before the performance began.

TV star Kate Walsh, who appeared off-Broadway at the Roundabout in If I Forget, attends the opening.

The cast of A Soldier's Play takes in the opening night ovation. Catch them at the American Airlines Theatre through March 15.

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