Usher, a Black, queer writer, is writing a musical about a Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer. With the help of a chorus of six larger-than-life ‘Thoughts’ that are all in his mind, Usher tries to understand and unpack his own strange loop.
Crew
Producers Barbara Whitman, Page 73 Productions, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Pasek, Paul & Stafford, Hunter Arnold, Marcia Goldberg, Alex Levy & James Achilles, Osh Ashram, A Choir Full Productions, Don Cheadle & Bridgid Coulter Cheadle, Paul Oakley Stovall, Jimmy Wilson, Annapurna Theatre, Robyn Coles/TRATE Productions, Creative Partners Productions, Robyn Gottesdiener Kayla Greenspan, Grove Entertainment, Kuhn, Lewis & Scott, Frank Marshall, Maximum Effort Productions Inc., Joey Monda, Richard Mumby, Phenomenal Media & Meena Harris, Marc Platt & Debra Martin Chase, Laurie Tisch, Yonge Street Theatricals, Dodge Hall Productions/ J Maley, Cody Renard Richard, The John Gore Organization, James L. Nederlander, The Shubert Organization, RuPaul Charles, Alan Cumming, Ilana Glazer, Jennifer Hudson, Mindy Kaling, Billy Porter
Writer Michael R. Jackson
Director Stephen Brackett
Show Run with Original Cast
April 16, 2022 - January 15, 2023
Lyceum Theatre
149 W. 45th St., New York, NY
Tony Awards
2022 Won, Tony Award for Best Musical
2022 Nominated, Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Musical
2022 Nominated, Tony Award for Best Orchestrations
2022 Nominated, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
2022 Nominated, Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical
2022 Nominated, Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical
2022 Nominated, Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical
2022 Nominated, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
2022 Nominated, Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
2022 Nominated, Tony Award for Best Original Score
2022 Nominated, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
