James Wilson takes a look at White Girl in Danger from Vineyard Theatre and Second Stage Theater:
In his Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson skewered the predominantly white theatre industry through the main character's effort to create a "big, Black, queer-ass, American Broadway show." The result (at least for this repeat viewer) was exhilarating. In his newest work, White Girl in Danger, which is now receiving a co-production by Vineyard Theatre and Second Stage Theater, Jackson fixes his sights on typically white daytime soap operas. Despite some terrific performances and isolated moments of blistering critique, this campy musical melodrama is disappointingly innocuous and banal. |
