Musicals like “MJ” and “Paradise Square” take on dance of the past with some missed opportunities. But the dance in For Colored Girls” helps us to “remember what cannot be said.”
The visceral intensity of all the performances in this new musical set in the titular bar in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan during the New York draft riots of 1863 surely is indicative not just of the long, hard slog to beat back COVID-19 and wrestle an original musical to Broadway.