| JELLY'S LAST JAM Last Night | |
| Last Edit: sergius 07:55 am EST 03/02/24 | |
| Posted by: sergius 07:54 am EST 03/02/24 | |
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| Mostly sensational. JELLY’S LAST JAM is a musical frame story, a biography from beyond that bends toward allegory (think, weirdly, a jazzified CHRISTMAS CAROL). As such, the storytelling needs to be crisp and clear. The show doesn’t go deep, but it’s sharp. It moves precisely and fast, enabled here by uniformly terrific performances and, as many have noted, routinely rousing choreography. Some have argued that the second act is slack, but it’s here that the show takes on its emotional ballast. It gets to Jelly’s redemption fast and Nicholas Christopher’s pain and sorrow at the end was deeply affecting. Through and through, this JELLY’S LAST JAM, like its progenitor, was plainly thrilling. (Sidenote: During a post-show talkback with Robert O’Hara, George C. Wolfe and Susan Birkenhead, Wolfe—jittery, funny, and smart as ever—mentioned that the show’s original book writer was August Wilson and its original director Jerry Zaks, an unlikely, startling even, pair to put it mildly.) | |
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