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The Jazz Age Re-reborn: At Encores!, Jelly’s Last Jam
From tap to vocals, an astonishing achievement for such a short run.
Christopher, who was just weeks ago holding down the fort as Sweeney Todd between Josh Groban and Aaron Tveit, is fantastic: Pretty early in the show, you start to wonder what he can’t do — dance, spit lyrics at alarming speed, croon, seduce the audience with a wry grin, or pull off a persuasive breakdown. He’s ever so winning, too, when sharing the stage, whether across from his eager younger self (Alaman Diadhiou), climbing up in the world with the darker-skinned partner he eventually turns against (John Clay III), or while trying to seduce the one woman Morton couldn’t seem to get over (recent Tony winner Joaquina Kalukango, also sizzling herself). In shorter appearances, Leslie Uggams twists the knife as Morton’s disappointed Creole grandmother, and Tiffany Mann belts the roof off as blues singer Miss Mamie with the aid of Okieriete Onaodowan’s cornetist Buddy Bolden.
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