Passing Strange Update
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
A little while back–the very first post on this blog, actually–I wrote about Passing Strange, a foray into Broadway by Stew, the Afro-Baroque singer and once-and-future voice of The Negro Problem. As of now (that’s around 11 Sunday night), the musical has won a Tony for best book, and is still in the running for Best Musical, which–in this writer’s opinion–the show deserves.
In a further update, the original cast recording comes out on July 8, though it’s already available on iTunes.
If you want to subject yourself to the original review, you can find it here. You can also go here for a great overview of Stew and TNP’s music from the Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz. And you can go to the Belasco Theater to see Passing Strange, and thank me later.