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…