Broadway legend theebillyporter tells his life story through song on the Black Mona Lisa tour.
Great art lasts forever. Such was the thought process for Broadway legend Billy Porter when choosing his most recent album title,The album and tour title came about during a writing session."The whole room went silent," he recollects on a recent phone call."We knew we were just onto something magical." Part of the magic was in how the great painting's impact mirrored Porter's own long and impactful career on stage and screen.
Porter has been to Austin previously as a contributor to UT-Austin's inaugural Texas Musical Theatre Workshop in 2012. He served as director on, and recalls of the stint intense heat and catching Idina Menzel on her own tour. He'll be skipping any ATX socializing this time around."I don't have any time," Porter says."I'm in and out. I'm on the bus, I get off the bus, do the concert and come back, get on the bus and go to the next city.
The show consists of 10 new songs off the upcoming album interlaced with iconic songs from Porter's career. In crafting the story told by the show, Porter describes pulling from all eras of his life: Nineties R&B, theatrical show tunes, political anthems, and powerful gospel music, which will all culminate in what he calls a big dance party."Putting it together is always for me about, what is the arc?" Porter says.
One of his newer songs,"Baby Was a Dancer," represents that healing work as it tells his journey toward authenticity as a Black queer man. That difficult trek through a repressive society to finally break through into self-acceptance is one many queer folks have trod before.
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