Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning meta-musical, "A Strange loop," is coming to Broadway this spring.
The producers of the musical announced on Monday that it would open at the Lyceum Theater in late April, before the eligibility deadline for this season's Tony Awards.
The show is a musical comedy about a Black gay musical theater writer trying to write a musical about a black gay musical theater writer. It was staged Off Broadway in Playwrights Horizons in a collaboration with Page 73 productions. The New York Times critic Ben Brantley said that it featured an assortment of the kind of infectious, richly incomprehensible music that would have your grandparents leaving the theater humming. If they hadn't walked out before.
The musical won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in drama, and was described by the Pulitzers as a meditation on universal human fears and insecurities.
The Washington Post gave a rave review to the film, which was at the Woolly Mammoth Theater. The critic Peter Marks was impressed by it.
Jackson was happy to see the musical find a home on Broadway. He said that it was significant because the show made its way out of nowhere and stuck to its guns. That doesn't happen a lot with new musicals.
Does he think the musical can succeed in a Broadway dominated by musicals and movies? The challenge I laid out for myself was that the show is a big, Black and queer-ass American Broadway show. Audiences from all over can come and take part.
The Broadway cast for the musical is not yet announced. The Broadway run will be produced.
