Neat way to make stage fade to black?

I am currently trying to find some neat way to make everything on the stage fade to black (like the sun was going down). I know i can just create a stage sized black box with an alpha value of 1 and do something like box.alpha += 1/10;. I was just wondering if there is a cleaner way to do this preferably only using actionscript. I appreciate any sort of respond

Can you tell me why this does not work?
darkness = new mc_dark();
addChild(darkness);
var fade:Tween = new Tween(darkness,"alpha",None.easeNone,0,1,120,true);
It seems to be working all right but the movieclip mc_dark never gets an alpha value of 1, more like 0.5.

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