That so many people involved with “A Strange Loop” are newcomers to Broadway, some of whom have created great theater for years in the world beyond Broadway, is emblematic of how fresh this show is for a Broadway audience, and how welcome. Four of the six other cast members are also making impressive Broadway debuts, as are musical director Rona Siddiqui, choreographer Raja Feather Kelly, and Jackson himself, who began writing the music, the lyrics and the book for this show 21 years ago. Jaquel Spivey is now 23, making an impressive Broadway debut as the character Usher, who is an usher in a Broadway theater, trying to navigate adulthood and write a musical in his spare time. He has been working on “A Strange Loop” so long that the actor portraying the lead character in the Broadway production was a toddler when Jackson first began writing the show.
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It must be a hard habit for Jackson to break. But even on the final script sent to the press, there are a few last-minute tweaks, marked in red and blue ink. The changes since Off-Broadway have resulted in a crisper production with a more elaborate design on an obviously bigger budget.
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Tonight is also significant in that Jackson may finally stop working on it. And now, it actually IS a Broadway Show, opening tonight at the Lyceum Theater. This dazzling and dizzying musical about a big, gay Black guy who is struggling to write a musical about a big, gay Black guy who is struggling….has since won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Jackson’s “Big, Black and Queer-Ass American Broadway Show,” as the characters in the musical itself repeatedly call it, has changed since I saw it Off-Broadway three years ago.