Review: ASF's 'Jubilee' features amazing musical performances – Montgomery Advertiser

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Three actors on stage, dressed in 19th-century style costumes, perform with raised arms and joyful expressions, as if celebrating a grand Jubilee. The scene is illuminated by colorful stained-glass-like backgrounds reminiscent of vibrant musical performances at ASF productions.

The Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s production of “Jubilee” is all about the music, and the music is dazzling.

ASF is known for its superb acting, lavish sets, lightning-fast set changes, gorgeous costumes and its sometimes spectacular special effects and lighting. Only a few of these are present in ASF’s production of “Jubilee,” and that is by design.

“Jubilee,” dubbed “An A Cappella Musical” is all about the music, the “field songs” that a group of Black singers after the Civil War helped transform into part of…