Tonya Pinkins Remembers “Jelly’s Last Jam,” The Show That Won Her Her First Tony

“Jelly’s Last Jam was the first musical written and directed by an African American that was not simply a toe-tapping entertainment with happy, singing people of color. … [It] was akin to a Brancusi sculpture of 50 years in the life of an arrogant, racist, braggadocio genius.”

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