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Kandi Burruss<\/a> is stepping out of her Broadway<\/a> producer chair and back onto the stage with a new role in & Juliet.<\/p>\n The producers of the popular musical announced that Burruss will join the cast this winter as Ang\u00e9lique. Her time with the cast will be a limited engagement from Dec. 11, 2025, through March 8, 2026.<\/p>\n Ang\u00e9lique is part of the Capulet household as Juliet\u2019s nurse and friend. She marries Lance Du Bois, one of the elite in the Capulet-Montague circles, and becomes the stepmother of Lance\u2019s son, Francois, Juliet\u2019s former fianc\u00e9-turned-close friend.<\/p>\n Burruss said in a statement how excited she is to join the cast for her limited engagement, saying, \u201cI could not be more thrilled to return to the Broadway stage in this incredible musical.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs a songwriter myself, I am such a fan of Max Martin\u2019s genius mind, and to get to come back to Broadway in this joyful musical that celebrates his catalog is a dream come true,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n & Juliet gives Shakespeare\u2019s 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 Iv\u00e1n 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 V\u00ed 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.<\/p>\n 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 \u201cMama\u201d Morton in Chicago. Since then, she\u2019s become one of Broadway\u2019s biggest producers, with producing credits including Thoughts of a Colored Man, the Tony-nominated revival of August Wilson\u2019s 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\u2019s Joe Turner\u2019s Come and Gone back to Broadway with a cast<\/a> including Taraji P. Henson and Cedric The Entertainer and Debbie Allen as director.<\/p>\n The post Kandi Burruss Joining Broadway\u2019s \u2018& Juliet\u2019 In Limited Engagement<\/a> appeared first on Blavity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 Ang\u00e9lique. 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Burruss has become a prolific Broadway producer in recent years<\/h2>\n