Midnight

Todrick Hall has kept very busy in the past two decades, rising from chorus boy to early YouTube star, RuPaul's Drag Race judge, recording artist and Broadway leading man. His latest project certainly doesn't lack for ambition: It's an original musical that tells the stories of 12 characters, half of them white and the other half Black, whose lives intersect in the 19th-century American South. Hall not only leads the cast of 20 actors and nine swings—a huge ensemble by Off Broadway standards—but is also the show's writer, composer, director, choreographer and lead producer. After two developmental runs in London, he is ready to unveil his creation in NYC.