Kandi Burruss is stepping out of her Broadway producer chair and back onto the stage with a new role in & Juliet.
The producers of the popular musical announced that Burruss will join the cast this winter as Angélique. Her time with the cast will be a limited engagement from Dec. 11, 2025, through March 8, 2026.
Angélique is part of the Capulet household as Juliet’s nurse and friend. She marries Lance Du Bois, one of the elite in the Capulet-Montague circles, and becomes the stepmother of Lance’s son, Francois, Juliet’s former fiancé-turned-close friend.
Here’s what Kandi Burruss says about joining ‘& Juliet’
Burruss said in a statement how excited she is to join the cast for her limited engagement, saying, “I could not be more thrilled to return to the Broadway stage in this incredible musical.”
“As a songwriter myself, I am such a fan of Max Martin’s genius mind, and to get to come back to Broadway in this joyful musical that celebrates his catalog is a dream come true,” she said.
& Juliet gives Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet a new lease on life by asking the question of what could have happened if Juliet had never decided to end her life over Romeo. The Tony-nominated musical created by David West Read currently stars Gianna Harris, James Monroe Iglehart, Alison Luff, Drew Gehling, Michael Iván Carrier, Cheryl Porter, Liam Pierce, Nathan Levy, Daniel Assetta, Reese Britts, Nicholas Cooper, Halima Dodo, Jhailyn Paige Farcon, Ishamel Gonzalez, Makai Hernandez, Joomin Hwang, Elsa Keefe, Alaina Ví Maderal, Daniel J. Maldonado, Mackenzie Meadows, Alejandro Muller Dahlberg, Cassie Silva, TJ Tapp, Zalah Vallien, Darien Van Rensalier and Romy Vuksan. The musical also features a pop playist of songs produced by Max Martin. Luke Sheppard serves as director with Jennifer Weber as choreographer.
Burruss has become a prolific Broadway producer in recent years
Burruss, who got her start in entertainment as co-founder of the R&B singing group Xscape, made her Broadway debut in 2018 as Matron “Mama” Morton in Chicago. Since then, she’s become one of Broadway’s biggest producers, with producing credits including Thoughts of a Colored Man, the Tony-nominated revival of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson starring John David Washington, Samuel L. Jackson and Danielle Brooks, The Wiz, and Othello starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, among others. She and her producing partner Brian Anthony Morland will next bring August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone back to Broadway with a cast including Taraji P. Henson and Cedric The Entertainer and Debbie Allen as director.
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