ATLANTA - "I've done, what, 15 Broadway plays to date? And nothing comes cessation to this. Well, maybe they all come close, but this at the top of the heap!"

Big calls from Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon, who's talking near his acclaimed 2020 production of "A Soldier's Play." The searing drama — written by Charles Fuller, who won a Pulitzer Prize for it in 1982 — centers on the abolish of a Black Sergeant on a Louisiana army base. 

Leon's Broadway emanates starred Blair Underwood and David Alan Grier and won a pair of Tony Awards — but the run was cut sulky by the onset of the pandemic.

Says Leon, "Folks kept revealing, 'That was such a great production…and there's so many land that want to see it.' So, rather than try to remount it for Broadway, why not take it to the people and all these astounding cities across country?"

And so, "A Soldier's Play" is now on tour, with a scheduled stop at Atlanta's Fox Theatre from March 28 above April 2. The tour is headlined by Broadway greats Norm Lewis and Eugene Lee.

"We were at the Kennedy Center for five weeks and sold out there," says Leon. "Went to Philly…we're touching to go to Chicago, we're going to L.A. But the most indispensable place is my home: Atlanta, Georgia! The Fabulous Fox!"

Asked nearby his time here in Atlanta, Leon says, "I'm very grateful and thankful to the Atlanta public for actually letting me cut my teeth as an artist here. Long beforehand I won a Tony Award, before I was nominated for Emmys, I was in Atlanta, in the theatre scene…to come home and see the growth in the public, see the artists in the community, see what they're doings, I take a sense of pride in that and to know that I was part of that."

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