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    • Author/Creator:Jackson, Michael R., 1981- librettist, lyricist, composer (expression)
    • Uniform Title:[Strange loop (Libretto)]
    • Title:A strange loop / book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson.
    • ISBN:9781559369930
      1559369930
      9781559369947
    • Edition:First edition.
    • Publication:New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2020.
    • Copyright notice date: ©2020
    • Physical Description:99 pages ; 22 cm
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    • Notes:Libretto.
    • 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"--
    • Other formats:Online version: Jackson, Michael R., 1981- Strange loop New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2020.
    • Format:Book
    • Contents:Intermission Song (Intro) -- (Opening) 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 Nothin' (Reprise) -- Precious Little Dream/AIDS is God's Punishment -- Memory Song -- A Strange Loop (Finale).
    • Subjects:African American dramatists--Drama.
      Gay dramatists--Drama.
      Musicals--Librettos.
      African American dramatists.
      Gay dramatists.
      Musicals--Librettos.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):LGBTQ resource.