'This play is full of firsts': behind the groundbreaking Go-Go's musical

The jukebox musical explores the music of the all-female 80s pop-rock band the Go-Go’s and features the first transgender lead in a major Broadway showJukebox musicals tend to go one of two ways. Either they tell the basic story of the stars they’re meant to salute (like Jersey Boys and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, or Summer and Donna Summer). Or they invent some tale out of whole cloth (à la Mamma Mia! and Abba, or We Will Rock You and Queen). Related: The woke sound of ...

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