Broadway review: Lin-Manuel Miranda's FreestyleLoveSupreme
Utkarsh Ambudkar, Andrew Bancroft, Aneesa Folds. Arthur Lewis, Kaila Mullady, Chris Sullivan, Anthony Veneziale.” may be the same as at any improv show — working from suggestions shouted out from the audience — but the members of this eponymous hip-hop ensemble up the ante by taking those audience cues and elevating them with rapid-fire raps, peppered with spoken-word riffs and wrapped in a musicality that would feel right at home at “Hamilton.
Since each night’s show is almost entirely off-the-cuff — no doubt fortified by years of on-the-spot experience — performances vary in their wow factor, depending on the day, the dynamics of the group and, of course, the audience. That makes it the second Broadway show this month, following “Steering the ever-morphing performance is Anthony Veneziale, the genial-with-a-slight-edge emcee who starts the show by asking the audience for an active verb.
Some of the show’s best bits end up being non-rap quips. When an audience member, recalling a childhood incident, noted that there was no scarring after she bit her younger sister on the back, Miranda quipped, “You’re talking about it years later. Oh, there’s scarring.” is savvy enough to slow down the show’s barrage of words here for a more natural, intimate pace that can have a surprising emotional impact.
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