It must be a hard habit for Jackson to break. But even on the final script sent to the press, there are a few last-minute tweaks, marked in red and blue ink. The changes since Off-Broadway have resulted in a crisper production with a more elaborate design on an obviously bigger budget. Tonight is also significant in that Jackson may finally stop working on it. And now, it actually IS a Broadway Show, opening tonight at the Lyceum Theater. This dazzling and dizzying musical about a big, gay Black guy who is struggling to write a musical about a big, gay Black guy who is struggling….has since won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Jackson’s “Big, Black and Queer-Ass American Broadway Show,” as the characters in the musical itself repeatedly call it, has changed since I saw it Off-Broadway three years ago.
