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Keke Palmer Teases Broadway Return In Debbie Allen-Helmed Play About Muhammad Ali


Keke Palmer will soon take the stage again on Broadway, with a return to form in a forthcoming play from Debbie Allen about Muhammad Ali's life.

Keke PalmerGetty Images While promoting her buddy comedy One of Them Days, in which she portrays the other half to SZA as the two try to scrounge up their rent money in the course of a measly 24 hours, the child actress-cum-media mogul teased her return to theater’s most-coveted district. “This would be a play directed by Debbie Allen, about Muhammad Ali ‘s life and his relationship with Stepin Fetchit,” the two-time Emmy winner said. As Palmer noted, this would mark her first foray into a non-musical performance, as she became the youngest actress to portray the title princess in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella at the age of 21 in 2014.

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