For those left craving more reclamations of Black country culture after Cowboy Carter, the new musical Gun & Powder is an American tall tale and terrific musical Western. Based on family histories passed down to book-and-lyric writer Angelica Chéri (who works with composer Ross Baum), it gives Ciara Renée and Liisi LaFontaine two of the richest vocal roles in memory, playing two sisters who pass as white in order to bail their mother out of trouble in 1893 Texas.

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