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| Last Edit: singleticket 10:38 pm EDT 07/24/24 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 10:23 pm EDT 07/24/24 | |
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| Superb theater, a seamless blending of this production's conceit of ballroom locale and culture with a deep and intelligent reading of the original Andrew Lloyd Weber musical. The cast is a jewel box full of magnificent dancers, actors, and voices. Directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch give their hooting and screaming mostly white audience a full immersive ballroom experience which often reaches peaks of near delirium. The reading of the musical as a religious mass of transformation is grounded in the original, rather grandiose, ALW musical and in T.S. Elliot's theology if not in his cat poems (I don't know, I haven't read them). But here the religious aspects don't feel grandiose as they are localized in the LGBT experience by way of Harlem. All of this would not have worked without the remarkable presence of André De Shields at its center, particularly De Shield's face which has the ravaged beauty of a survivor (beautifully lit by Adam Honoré). If you can, see it before it transfers. | |
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