Want Big Black Gay Boy Joy and the Most Fun On Broadway? Take A Strange Loop

Savas Abadsidis November 1, 2022

By the time the curtain fell on Thursday night’s performance of A Strange Loop on Broadway, Bob the Drag Queen, had achieved his goal by having the biggest, Blackest, gay audience in attendance in honor of the end of LGBT History Month 2022.

The RuPaul’s Drag Race season 8 winner hosted a talkback after the 7pm performance.

Bob has been one of the show’s earliest and biggest boosters and it’s the best time you’ll have on Broadway.

That’s a fact.

A stunning work, A Strange Loop is the big, Black and queer Great American Musical for all. The POV of the misunderstood outcast is indelible to the Broadway musical (see: Hairspray’s Tracy Turnblad). Here we have Usher.

Usher is a Black queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer…

Played by actor Jaquel Spivey, Loop brings audiences into Usher’s world and into the heart and soul of this young artist grappling with desires, identity and instincts he both loves and loathes.

As Usher wrestles with his own thoughts and desires, his internal life is brought to life on stage by a hilarious, straight-shooting ensemble or his six “Thoughts.”

“Though A Strange Loop is not autobiographical, it is my life’s work. As such, I feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to share this raw, vulnerable, and personal story with the world and to have connected with so many enthusiastic, loving audiences,” said creator Michael R. Jackson.

Jackson adds:

Loop won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was named Best Musical by the Tony Awards, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, and Off-Broadway Alliance. Jackson won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical and Spivey was awarded the Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Musical, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and a Theatre World Award.

Barbara Whitman produced along with Page 73 Productions, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and Playwright Productions.

The show runs on Broadway through January 15, 2023. Upon closing, Loop will have had 301 regular and 13 preview performances at the Lyceum Theatre.

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