A strange loop [sound recording] : original cast recording / book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson.

Title:

A strange loop [sound recording] : original cast recording / book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson.

Personal Author:

Jackson, Michael R., 1981-

Publication Information:

New York : Yellow Sound Records, [2019]

℗2019

Physical Description:

1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Title from disc label

Contents:

Intermission song -- Today -- We wanna know -- Inner white girl -- Didn't want nothin' -- Exile in Gayville -- Second wave --Tyler Perry writes real life -- Writing a gospel play -- A sympathetic ear -- Inwood daddy -- Boundaries --Periodically -- Didn't want nothing' reprise -- Precious little dream / AIDS is God's punishment -- Memory song -- A strange loop

Summary:

Usher is a Black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical: a piece about a Black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical. Michael R. Jackson's blistering, momentous new musical follows a young artist at war with a host of demons -- not least of which, the punishing thoughts in his own head -- in an attempt to capture and understand his own strange loop

Subject Term:

African American dramatists -- Songs and music

Black dramatists--United States -- Songs and music

African American gay men -- Songs and music

Black gay men--United States -- Songs and music

African American gay people -- Songs and music

Black gay people--United States -- Songs and music

African American men -- Songs and music

Black men--United States -- Songs and music

Composers -- Songs and music

Composers--New York (State)--New York -- Songs and music

Dramatists -- Songs and music