The music's fabulous, but the story's thin. Jackie Taylor, the founder and leading light of the Black Ensemble Theatre, has spent her career penning and producing biographical musicals recounting the lives of prominent African-American musicians, most of whom are associated in some way with Chicago. These shows are always packed wall-to-wall with classic tunes, passionately sung by a cast…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM on March 14, 2019