A strange loop : original cast recording
2019
CD
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
Item Details
Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
- digital optical
- audio file CD audio
- 4 3/4 in.
Target Audience Note: [Parental advisory, explicit content]
Notes:
- Title from container
- Compact disc
- Libretto (24 unnumbered pages : color portraits) inserted in container
- Book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson ; album produced by Michael Croiter and Michael R. Jackson
- Featuring Antwayn Hopper, James Jackson, Jr., L. Morgan Lee, John-Michael Lyles, John-Andrew Morrison, Larry Owens, Jason Veasey
- Compact disc
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
LCCN: 1113881814
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- YSL567233
- 15043679
- YSL567233
UPC:
- 705105672335
- 705105672335
Subjects:
- African American dramatists -- Songs and music.
- African American gay men -- Songs and music.
- African American gay people -- Songs and music.
- African American men -- Songs and music.
- Composers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Songs and music.
- Composers -- Songs and music.
- Dramatists -- Songs and music.
- Homosexuality -- Songs and music.
- Musical theater -- Songs and music.
- Musicals -- Writing and publishing -- Songs and music.
- Musicals.
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