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West Coast Premiere of The Broadway Production of

Fat Ham Extended by popular demand!

03.27 – 05.11.2024

Written By
James Ijames
Original Direction By
Saheem Ali
Directed By
Sideeq Heard
Produced in Association with
No Guarantees, Public Theater Productions & Rashad V. Chambers
Featuring
Nikki Crawford, Chris Herbie Holland, Billy Eugene Jones, Adrianna Mitchell, Marcel Spears, Benja Kay Thomas & Matthew Elijah Webb

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OVERVIEW

Meet Juicy, a young, queer Black man with a Shakespearean-sized dilemma. When the ghost of his dead father shows up at his family’s BBQ wedding reception demanding his murder be avenged, does the poetic and sensitive Juicy have it in him to do the deed, or will he “to thine own self be true?” See what the New York Times calls “a hilarious yet profound tragedy smothered in comedy,” in this Pulitzer Prize–winning take on Hamlet, direct from Broadway to L.A.

Fat Ham first premiered in 2022 at The Public Theater as a co-production between National Black Theatre and The Public Theater. Fat Ham made its Broadway premiere on April 12, 2023.

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Performance Information

Running Time
100 minutes, no intermission.
Warnings

Strobe Lighting Effects • Loud Music • Theatrical Haze

Content Advisory: This production contains profanity.

Age Recommendation: 12+
All Geffen Playhouse productions are intended for an adult audience; children under 10 years of age will not be admitted.

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“you're going to want seconds”

— Los Angeles Times

“intoxicating and deliriously funny”

— South Pasadenan

“risk-taking, rule-breaking”

— Stage Scene LA

“the best thing to hit LA stages”

— Ticket Holders LA

“this Broadway darling is set to charm Los Angeles”

— Press Pass LA

“ingenious”

— Paris LA

“a must-see production”

— Splash Magazines

“so much to enjoy”

— Arts Beat LA

“a knock-out”

— Politics Money Culture

“Huzzah for the Ham!”

— Broadway World

“groundbreaking”

— Daily Bruin

“a production worth seeing”

— Eurweb

Cast

Tedra
Actor

Nikki Crawford

Tedra

Tio
Actor

Chris Herbie Holland

Tio

Rev/Pap
Actor

Billy Eugene Jones

Rev/Pap

Opal
Actor

Adrianna Mitchell

Opal

Juicy
Actor

Marcel Spears

Juicy

Rabby
Actor

Benja Kay Thomas

Rabby

Larry
Actor

Matthew Elijah Webb

Larry

Understudies

u/s Opal
Actor

Jasmine Ashanti

u/s Opal

u/s Juicy
Actor

Armand Fields

u/s Juicy

u/s Rev / Pap
Actor

Ethan Henry

u/s Rev / Pap

u/s Tio / Larry
Actor

Jarvis B. Manning, Jr.

u/s Tio / Larry

u/s Tedra / Rabby
Actor

April Nixon

u/s Tedra / Rabby

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