Ketanji Brown Jackson To Make Musical Debut On Broadway

Ketanji Brown Jackson is about to hit another high note in her illustrious career.

The Supreme Court justice will make her one-night-only Broadway debut in the musical comedy “& Juliet” on Saturday, it was announced this week.

The former theater student-turned-top legal scholar will appear in the New York City production at 8 p.m. and take questions after, completing what she’s described as a lifelong fantasy.

As she wrote in her new memoir, “Lovely One,” she “dreamed” as a child of not only one day taking a seat on the nation’s highest court but also performing on one of the world’s highest commercial stages.

“I, a Miami girl from a modest background with an unabashed love of theater, dreamed of one day ascending to the highest court in the land — and I had said so in one of my supplemental application essays [to Harvard University],” she wrote in the memoir, according to Deadline. “I expressed that I wished to attend Harvard as I believed it might help me ‘to fulfill my fantasy of becoming the first Black, female Supreme Court justice to appear on a Broadway stage.’”

Jackson did go on to study drama and musical theater at Harvard University while earning her undergraduate and law degrees, both with honors. Back in September, she recalled acting out a scene opposite future Oscar winner Matt Damon while they were both students at the Ivy League school.

It’s not clear what role she will have in “& Juliet,” and representatives with the production did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment. This new production tells a different ending for the lovestruck heroine Juliet, from William Shakespeare’s tragic play, “Romeo and Juliet.”

Rather than die following the death of her lover, Romeo, Juliet opts for a “fresh beginning and a second chance at life and love,” according to a synopsis for the musical.

Back in 2016, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg similarly showed off her acting chops when she appeared in the Washington National Opera’s performance of “The Daughter of the Regiment.”

Ginsburg had a nonsinging role, performing as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in the 19th-century French opera.