Ketanji & Juliet
You may have seen new stories about Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson appearing on Broadway last week in the musical “& Juliet” in a walk-on role. All the better, it turns out that she didn’t just walk on stage for a line, but was in two scenes and had a song with some choreography!
It turns out that she has not only always loved musical theater, but even took classes and performed in shows at Yale. (She was in the musical Little Shop of Horrors there with humorist Mo Rocca playing 'Seymour,' and in one of her classes, she performed in a scene with Matt Damon.) In fact, when she applied to Yale, she told the interviewer that her goal was to be the first Black Supreme Court Justice to be on Broadway! She reached her goal.
By the way, upcoming I'll be posting her appearance on the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me! where she talking about this in detail -- and one of the panelists is...Mo Rocca!
If you haven’t seen any footage of her performance and rehearsals, here are a couple of fun videos.
The first is a short one released by the production –
The second is a longer piece with more footage on CBS Mornings. –
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