| re: A Strange Loop question |
| Posted by: NeoAdamite 05:32 pm EDT 06/16/22 |
| In reply to: A Strange Loop question - jeffef 02:41 pm EDT 06/16/22 |
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The Tony presentation gives no idea of the underlying story, which is actually a classic one: The hero struggles to transcend his deeply conservative upbringing, in particular the emotional damage it has caused to him (and to some with whom he was close). He does this without self-pity, keeping his sense of humor, and also with an awareness that his parents and their beliefs spring from a complicated cultural context.
The show is laugh-out-loud funny when satirizing Tyler Perry's clichés; and more quietly so as Usher considers how "the second wave feminist in me is at war with the dick-sucking black gay man."
The Broadway cast album is on YouTube now, and the mix makes it easier to understand the lyrics than on the Off-Broadway version.
For what it's worth: the sexual encounter (there is no nudity) is the hero's emotional low point - he has finally accepted he needs tenderness, but Grindr provides only humiliation. |
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