Closing its doors considerably earlier than Newsies is After Midnight, the seven-time 2014 Tony Award nominee and winner of the Tony Award for Best Choreography (Warren Carlyle), which will be ending its eight-month run this coming Sunday, June 29th, at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

Sadly, this really wonderful Jazz Age musical, with its revolving door cast of “Special Guest Stars” — including iconic songstress Patti LaBelle, who will ride the spotlight into the sunset this weekend — never quite zeroed in on its niche audience in the competitive Broadway arena. I, for one will miss this show that gave far more than it got.

Patti LaBelle. hoto: Carlo Dalla Chiesa

READ: Promenade's Summer 2014 Theatre Guide

Finally, just in case you want to mark your calendars for a truly historic event. Following the Sunday, June 29th matinee of Ethel Sings — the Off-Broadway play by Joan Beber that offers an unprecedented look at Ethel Rosenberg, who made headlines with her husband in the early 1950s when they were tried and convicted on charges of espionage against the U.S. during the Cold War — there will be a "talk back" with activist, attorney, and writer Robert Meeropol, the younger son of the Rosenbergs. Meeropol is the founder and Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children and author of the political memoir An Execution In The Family: One Son's Journey.

The show is being presented at Theatre Row’s Beckett Theatre and I strongly urge you to reserve your tickets ASAP as this promises to be a sell-out performance: EthelSings.com.

P.S. 10% of all ticket sales for Ethel Sings go to The Rosenberg Fund for Children, an organization that makes grants aiding American children whose parents have been targeted because of their progressive activism, as well as youth who themselves have been targeted due to their politics.