“They have invited me to do a special walk-on role that I’m told they wrote for me,” she said. “So I’m very excited.”
By Rachel Treisman for npr –
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made her Broadway debut this weekend. She also made history as the first member of the nation’s highest court to grace its storied stage, according to the production that invited her.
Jackson appeared in a one-night-only walk-on role on Saturday night in the Tony-nominated romantic comedy musical & Juliet, a modern take on Shakespeare’s tragedy that imagines what would have happened if the female protagonist survived and took control of her own life.
The show announced Jackson’s performance several days in advance, writing on Instagram that the justice would also participate in a talkback with the audience afterward. Jackson also spoke about it on Saturday’s episode of NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me, recorded in New York City hours before she took the stage.
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