Ketanji Brown Jackson to make Broadway debut in one-night-only walk-on role

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will make his historic Broadway debut Saturday night.

Producer announced on Monday The first Black female Supreme Court justice will also be the first to appear on Broadway in a special walk-on role in the hit musical “And Juliet.”

The one-night role will be performed on Saturday, and there will be a talkback with the audience at the Stephen Sondheim Theater after the performance.

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Jackson said in his recently published memoir, Lovely One, that acting on Broadway was a dream of his.

“I was a Miami girl from a modest family who unashamedly loved theater and dreamed of one day rising to the highest court in the land. And in one of my supplemental application essays, I said, “I said,” Jackson wrote. “I told her that I wanted to attend Harvard because I thought it might help me realize my dream of becoming the first black female Supreme Court justice on Broadway.”

Details regarding Jackson's role have not yet been announced.

“& Juliet'' is a jukebox Broadway musical that reimagines what if the protagonists of Shakespeare's classic “Romeo and Juliet'' had survived their tragic ending. Includes songs by Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Bon Jovi, Ariana Grande, Kelly Clarkson, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, and more.

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Jackson will be the first Supreme Court justice to appear on Broadway, although other justices have appeared on stage.

Jackson once wrote that appearing on Broadway was a fantasy for her. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

slow person Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg In 2016, she appeared for one night as the Duchess of Clerkenthorpe in the Washington National Opera's production of The Regiment's Daughter.

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