Alicia Keys To Write Music For Broadway Show

First Published: October 4, 2011 7:11 PM EDT Credit: Getty Images NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Caption Alicia Keys attends the panel HIV Priorities for Positive Change - In Womans Words during the UN conference on AIDS at the United Nations, NY City, on June 7, 2011Not content simply to follow Jay-Z and Will Smith into the world of Broadway producers, Alicia Keys will also compose original music for the upcoming production of Stick Fly on the Great White Way. Producers said Tuesday that the musician and singer, whose hits include Fallin and A Womans Worth, will offer her songwriting to the play by Lydia R. Diamond. Performances begin Nov. 18 at the Cort Theatre. The work is a contemporary comedy of manners revolving around an affluent black family whose insecurities gradually unravel during a vacation. The cast includes Dule Hill (Psych, 'The West Wing) and Tony Award-winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Keys already had signed on to help produce the work. Previously, Jay-Z, Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith helped produce themusical Fela! (Copyright 2011 by Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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