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Michael R. Jacksons heady metamusicalA Strange Loopstarts strong and goes to lots of strong places.
Du Boiss description, inThe Souls of Black Folk, of the double consciousness of living while black.
Jacksons triumph withA Strange Loopis that by diving into the excruciatingly personal, he finds the broadly human.
(Id say, with a healthy dash ofsomething like this way-too-real videothrown in.)
AndTyler Perrydont never forget to bring in the spiritchalities.
Cause Tyler Perry loveshismama.
(Im inclined to a heartyhell noon that front, but let that pass.)
The ensemble has that covered Usher is an artist in New York City, after all.
Hes surrounded by cute, by pretty, by beautiful and aspiring and sexy and successful.
And hes an overweight, angry, lonely, smart, desperate, self-destructive mess.
But of course, thats also just … humans.
A Strange Loopis at Playwrights Horizons, where its produced in association with Page 73, through July 7.
