The Pulitzer Prize-winning musical follows a ‘big, Black, and queer’ playwright looking to find fame (and himself) on Broadway.
Usher fronts some of his alter-egos, played by, from left, Jordan Barbour, Avionce Hoyles, John-Andrew Morrison and J. Cameron Barnett, in “A Strange Loop” at American Conservatory Theater.That’s one of many wry rallying cries in the badass new musical “Strange Loop,” as our hero Usher grapples with being “big, Black, and queer” on the Great White Way.
Usher , an insecure musical theater writer about to turn 26, enters into a Thunderdome-style battle with his own pesky thoughts as he works as an usher at “The Lion King” on Broadway in this gleefully foul-mouthed 100-minute tour-de-fierce, the first musical by a black person to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Jackson’s cheeky exploration of coming-of-age in a chaotic world where labels are hard to shake and money is hard to make is both wry and genuine, playful and angsty.Arnulfo Maldonado’s boxy set design perfectly captures the claustrophobia of being trapped in your own head. Usher is all brain and no bravado. When a cutie on the subway asks him, “Did you see ‘Hamilton’?” Usher responds witheringly, “I’m poor.
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