'I guess I associate longing and hopefulness with being gay.' AStrangeLoop author TheLivingMJ breaks down the gayest songs on broadway for Variety's Power of Pride issue 🏳️🌈🎶
” leads the Broadway awards-season race with 11 Tony nominations and stands poised to net the top musical trophy plus several others for him and his collaborators. The show has become a New York media darling; ticket sales have spiked from all the attention; and film and TV projects beckon alongside his ongoing theater work.“It’s a question I’m asking myself, and I haven’t figured out the answer,” the 41-year-old writer-composer-lyricist says.
“Michael is so honest and so vulnerable in his work, and he has this ability to push an audience into really kind of shocking, sometimes ridiculous places but keep them rooted in a nuanced sense of character,” says Stephen Brackett, the Tony-nominated director of “A Strange Loop,” who has known Jackson since 2010 and worked on the show for a decade. “Michael knows how to make an impact with these moments that make part of your brain go, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe he’s going there.
“Everybody was willing, time and time again, to come back, work on it for free, maybe get some Popeyes chicken and then do a reading in a porn factory,” Brackett recalls. “I think people have a sense of feeling seen in this piece that they haven’t felt working on other shows.” “I think a lot about what it means to really spend your time on a piece of art trying to make it as good as it can be,” Jackson says. “Something happening immediately doesn’t mean that it’s good. Something taking a long time can be worth it. When I’m watching people react and have emotional responses to the show, I know that part of what they’re responding to is that we took our time, whether they know it or not.
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