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Todrick Hall’s Midnight to Premiere Off-Broadway This Fall

Hall says he wrote the sung-through musical to respond to social divisions and plans for it to prompt empathy through a mix of gospel, R&B, pop, rock, folk, opera, and musical theatre.

Overview

  • Producers announced Thursday that Midnight will begin performances at the Daryl Roth Theatre on September 12, open officially on September 27, and run through November 1, 2026.
  • The production is being mounted by Midnight 1200 LLC and Caryn Sterling after two sold-out runs in London, a move that signals commercial momentum for the show.
  • Midnight is set in the 19th-century American South and follows twelve interconnected lives—six Black characters and six white characters—to explore race, identity, love, and inherited assumptions.
  • Todrick Hall wrote and will direct the wholly sung-through score, which he describes as a response to contemporary division and which blends multiple musical genres to reach varied audiences.
  • Key details still to be released include casting, the full creative team, ticketing and a detailed performance schedule, making those items the next milestones to watch before previews begin.