A Tony award shy of the prestigious EGOT, common is set to make his Broadway debut this winter when the rapper appears in a staging of Between Riverside and Crazy.
Eight years after Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play made a splash off-Broadway, the production will come to the Hayes Theater starting in December with much of the original cast intact.
However, Common will join the cast in the role of Junior, the recently paroled son of an ex-cop played by Stephen McKinley Henderson. Common, a three-time Grammy winner, won an Oscar in 2015 when his and John Legend’s “Glory” took home Best Original Song. Two years later, the rapper scored his Emmy when his “Letter to the Free,” from the Netflix documentaryBetween Riverside and Crazy
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