It’s based loosely on a real man and tells the story of a white radio DJ and a black nightclub singer who come together to play Black music right at the center of the radio dial. The show centers around civil rights and racism and takes a slightly more nuanced approach than musicals like Hairspray. The music in this show is stunning, and the cast in the proshot have absolutely incredible voices, so much so that I’m retroactively upset that neither Chad Kimbell nor Motego Glover won the Tonys they were up for. I figured… it won Best Musical, so it must be good. It was not on my radar even a little bit, but I’d subscribed to BroadwayHD for a couple of months and had watched pretty much all the musicals, but I decided to look through them one more time to see if there was anything else that struck me before canceling and saw that there was a Tony-winning show that I’d only barely heard of. Why is it so good? I honestly can’t believe that I haven’t heard more people talking about this show, because it’s absolutely amazing. How I’ve experienced it: There’s a proshot with the original cast!
