It is surely stipulated in J. Harrison’s Ghee contract: “They must steal the show.”

As it was with their history-making Tony Award-winning performance in the 2022 Broadway revival of Some Like It Hot—becoming the first non-binary performer to win Best Leading Actor in a Musical—so it is in Saturday Church (New York Theatre Workshop, to Oct. 19), in which Ghee plays two roles so visually different yet so convincingly you may wonder why one of those characters, Pastor Lewis, is apparently missing during the curtain call.

As a fabulously dressed, never under-sequined “Black Jesus,” Ghee begins the show addressing the audience: “Can I show y’all what collective love looks like? What collective joy looks like? What collective healing looks like?”

That is the core aim of this musical, a crac

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