Theater October 2022
Complaint department
On A Strange Loop, Kinky Boots, and Two Jews Talking.
Critics who have reimagined their role as one mainly concerned with filling out intersectional bingo cards exploded with joy when they encountered Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop (at the Lyceum Theatre), for which the writer provided book, music, and lyrics. It’s too much to ask for Broadway reviewers to restrain themselves when offered a “fat, black, queer” protagonist, and restrain themselves they did not. A retiree meeting her newborn grandchildren could scarcely have reacted more joyfully than critics did to this work. (The Times: “There is no measure of praise that could be too much; after all, this is a show that allows a Black gay man to be vulnerable onstage without dismissing or fetishizing his trauma.”) The show captured the Pulitzer Prize in 2020 and the Tony for Best Musical in...
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