Passing Strange

A young artist leaves his life in Los Angeles behind. He is a young Black man. What he sets out for is to find himself. Where he goes is Europe. Music goes with him through the journey. The work is a recording of a Broadway musical on stage. The performance was filmed as it was given. The account moves through the songs and the staging together. The search for a self is the subject of the account. Stage and life run into each other throughout. The recording was made in the theatre. Stew and De’Adre Aziza appear in it, with Daniel Breaker and Colman Domingo also in the cast, in Spike Lee’s American film of 2009.