International Productions
- The London production featured Kyle Ramar Freeman as Usher, who was previously an understudy for the role on Broadway.
Musical Composition
- The Broadway cast recording of A Strange Loop received a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album for the 2023 Grammy Awards.
- A Broadway cast album for A Strange Loop was recorded on April 10, 2022, and released on June 10, 2022. It debuted at number two on the Cast Albums chart.
- The original cast recording of A Strange Loop from its off-Broadway production was released on September 27, 2019, and peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Cast Albums chart.
- Michael R. Jackson, the creator of the musical, wrote the book, music, and lyrics, integrating his personal experiences into the narrative.
- The title 'A Strange Loop' refers to both a cognitive science term by Douglas Hofstadter and a song by Liz Phair.
Production Facts
- The musical's protagonist, Usher, works as an usher at The Lion King while he dreams of writing his own show.
- The Broadway production included famous producers such as Jennifer Hudson, RuPaul Charles, and Billy Porter among others.
- Larry Owens starred as Usher in the original off-Broadway production at Playwrights Horizons.
- A Strange Loop opened on Broadway on April 26, 2022, and retained much of its thematic and tonal elements from the off-Broadway version, albeit with adjustments for a broader audience.
- The story of A Strange Loop centers on Usher, a Black queer man exploring his identity through the creative process.
- A Strange Loop received the Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical at the 75th Tony Awards.
- As of September 2022, A Strange Loop grossed approximately $14.2 million from 136,777 attendees across 157 performances.
- A Strange Loop was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama on May 4, 2020, making it notably the first musical written by a Black person to win the award, and the first to win without having a Broadway run at the time of the award.
- The show won the Tony Award for Best Musical following its Broadway premiere in April 2022.
- Jennifer Hudson, one of the producers of A Strange Loop, became the second Black woman to achieve the EGOT status with the show's Tony win.
- The musical opened off-Broadway in 2019 and made its Broadway debut at the Lyceum Theatre in April 2022.
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