This Thursday, October 27th, Bob the Drag Queen will host a Big, Black and Queer Night at Michael R. Jackson’s Tony Award-winning Best Musical A Strange Loop on Broadway. The event, which offers a special welcome to Black and queer theatregoers, takes place this LGBTQ+ History Month to celebrate the Pulitzer Prize-winning show breaking new ground for Black and LGBTQ+ representation on Broadway. The actor, comedian, podcast host, RuPaul’s Drag Race season eight winner, and star of HBO’s hit reality series We’re Here, will moderate a talkback following that night’s 7pm performance. Read our ★★★★★ review of A Strange Loop.
“It’s truly one of the most brilliant shows I’ve ever seen in my life”, comments Bob the Drag Queen, who encourages audience members to attend that night wearing black. “I thought to myself, what if everyone in the audience was Black and/or queer. How amazing would that be? So I reached out to the producers and a friend of mine in the show and said, ‘Can we make this happen?”
L Morgan Lee, who made history with her Broadway debut in A Strange Loop, becoming the first openly trans Tony nominee, shared her thoughts on the evening with The Queer Review. “I think it’s important and it’s great to have. It doesn’t mean that only Black people come to the theatre that night, but it means that it’s one of those nights that celebrates Blackness. With this piece in particular, that’s really useful, because our audiences are typically very much the standard Broadway audiences which tend to skew white. We had a Black theatre night when we did the show at Playwrights Off-Broadway and it was one of my favourite shows because people were so vocal and so excited about it. As a cast, we love that rush of energy coming at us when we’re doing the show, it really makes things cook.”
In addition to L Morgan Lee, the cast features her fellow Tony-nominee Jaquel Spivey as Usher, a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer… He’s joined by Antwayn Hopper (Thought 6), John- Michael Lyles (Thought 3), James Jackson, Jr. (Thought 2), Tony Award-nominee John-Andrew Morrison (Thought 4), and Jason Veasey (Thought 5), with Edwin Bates, Kyle Ramar Freeman, Zachary Myers, Jon-Michael Reese, and Mars Rucker. A Strange Loop is directed by Tony-nominee Stephen Brackett, choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly, and produced by Barbara Whitman.
Tickets for A Strange Loop on Big, Big & Queer night — open to all — are available at Telecharge.com (212-947-8844) or telecharge.com or the box office. Special group rates are available at broadwayinbound.com/shows/a-strange-loop or 800-714-8452. For more on A Strange Loop visit strangeloopmusical.com.
A Strange Loop will play its final Broadway performance on January 15th 2023.
Ghostlight Records and Yellow Sound Label will release the original Broadway Cast Recording on CD on Friday, November 4th. The album is currently available on digital and streaming formats. To stream or download the album, or pre-order the CD, head to Ghostlight Records.
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