Review: ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ at Seattle Rep provides much-needed catharsis

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To paraphrase a thought shared by at least a handful of audience members as they streamed out of the opening-night performance of “Freestyle Love Supreme” at Seattle Repertory Theatre: My brain just doesn’t work that fast, and I’m not entirely convinced it ever could.

“Freestyle Love Supreme,” a hip-hop comedy show heavily doused in freestyle rap, sets down at Seattle Rep through March 13 as part of an 11-city tour that showcases the phenomenon the 2019 Broadway show has become. Anyone familiar with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s work on “Hamilton” or “In the Heights” will likely recognize a similar stylistic stamp on this show. After all, the show was created nearly two decades ago, predating the Tony-winning hits when it was developed in 2004 by…