Overview
- The Arena Stage production opened February 13 and is scheduled to run through March 15 in the Kreeger Theater.
- Reviewers describe Glover’s choreography as a “veritable feast” and “Olympic,” citing tap, jazz, bebop, and swing sequences that leave audiences “breathless.”
- Richard LaGravenese supplies a complete new book with fresh Rodgers and Hart arrangements, and the show is co-directed by Glover and Tony Goldwyn.
- Myles Frost leads the cast as Joey Evans, with Awa Sal Secka, Samantha Massell, Angela Hall, and Kevin Cahoon among the principals.
- The revisal reframes Joey as a Black jazz singer in 1940s South Side Chicago and broadens the score to include film and catalog favorites like I Didn’t Know What Time It Was and The Lady Is a Tramp.