Boston loves Donna Summer, but can it handle three Donnas? This musical, now showing at the Emerson Colonial Theatre, exhibits major facets of the Dorchester-born Disco Queen.
The show provides 95 minutes of singing, dancing, romancing and expounding. The Donnas — played by Brittny Smith, Charis Gullage and Amahri Edwards-Jones — give us the jukebox musical version of the Queen of Disco’s life at different stages. Jones plays the young “Duckling Donna,” Gullage “Disco Donna” and Smith “Diva Donna.” All three have solo spots but sync up for some songs. They’re all spectacularly entertaining.
Summer was Dorchester-born, but New York-and-Munich-made. She sang the song “White Boys” in a German production of “Hair” in 1968, but came to fame in 1976, with the multi-orgasmic “Love to Love You Baby.” The single, coming in at 3:20, was a sensation, shocking staid AM radio listeners. An extended nearly 17-minute mix became a huge club hit — hence her “Queen of Disco” tag. It took up the entire first side of her album of the same title, which brought her worldwide fame.
But “Queen of Disco” was not a sobriquet Summer cared for. “In America, all they know are the gasps and moans,” Disco Donna says. “I want to be more than that.”Summer, who was 63 when she died from lung cancer in 2012, is remembered as the most soulful and popular female singer to rise out of the disco era. She was a synth-pop pioneer, a hitmaker, a gay icon and a feminist force.
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