Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, a blisteringly funny and incisive exploration of identity, self-perception and artistic struggle, directed by Jeremy Rashad Brown.
A Strange Loop runs from December 3 to 19 at Ground Floor Theatre, 979 Springdale Rd at Airport. It's the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by Michael R. Jackson, who wrote the music, book, and lyrics. The show premiered Off-Broadway in 2019 and moved to Broadway in April 2022, where it took home Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical at the 75th Tony Awards. This production is directed by Jeremy Rashad Brown.
The story follows Usher, a queer aspiring musical theatre writer who works as an usher at The Lion King. While he's working that job, he's writing a musical about a Black, queer man writing a musical about a Black, queer man. It's a show within a show within a show, and it's billed as a blisteringly funny, Black and queer Great American Musical. The production is known for its raw, incisive humor and its deep dive into identity, self-perception, and artistic struggle.
On stage, Usher is joined by six Thoughts—extensions of his own consciousness who play everyone else in his life. Christian Brown plays Usher, and the Thoughts are played by Kali Jupiter, Alyssa Harris, Jenna Mickay, Tommie Jackson, Beauregard Elliot, and Deitrich Calhoun. Choreography is by Quinton Weathers, and Deonté Warren handles music direction. The show is recommended for ages sixteen and up.
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It runs through December 19 at Ground Floor Theatre, 979 Springdale Rd at Airport.
