Lt. Fancy is a Master Sgt. now - off Broadway!

James McDaniel
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From Playbill:

"NYPD Blue" lieutenant James McDaniel joins Taye Diggs, Anthony Mackie, Teagle Bougere and Steven Pasquale in the now-complete cast for the upcoming Charles Fuller's A Soldier’s Play Off-Broadway revival.

Jo Bonney (Living Out, Fat Pig) directs the Second Stage Theatre production slated to start performances Sept. 20 and open Oct. 17 at the midtown Manhattan stage through Nov. 13.

In the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama set in 1944, a black military lawyer (Diggs) who is sent from Washington to investigate the murder of a black Master Sergeant (McDaniel). In his search, he must overcome uncooperative officers including the victim's white commander (Pasquale) and fearful troops in this tale of deceit and prejudice.