JAQUEL SPIVEY: (As Usher) Can I really write this? UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (As characters, singing) Usher, usher. Let's start with the opening song called "Intermission Song." Usher is played by Jaquel Spivey, who was also nominated for a Tony. Jackson says the show isn't autobiographical, but there are definitely parallels to his own life. Usher's inner feelings are personified by characters called his daily self-loathing, his supervisor of sexual ambivalence, his inner white girl and others. "A Strange Loop" is a comedy and drama about self-loathing, feeling stuck and wanting to change, and about Usher's churchgoing parents, who fear his sexuality will condemn him to eternally burn in hell. That is one of the strange loops that the title refers to. In the play, Usher is writing a musical about a young, Black, gay musical theater writer named Usher, who works as an usher at a Broadway show and is writing a musical about a young, Black, gay musical theater writer named Usher. Jackson started writing it when he was working as an usher at the Broadway show "The Lion King." He describes his show as a musical about a young, Black, gay musical theater writer named Usher who works as an usher at a Broadway show. The show, called "A Strange Loop," also won a Pulitzer Prize for drama. One of the cast members became the first trans person to be nominated for a Tony. The show that won this year's Tony Awards for best musical and best book for a musical was written and composed by my guest, Michael R.
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