“And one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages …” So says the melancholy Jaques in As You Like It, launching into one of the best-known speeches Shakespeare ever set down. In Complications in Sue, the playwright, lyricist, and composer Michael R. (A Strange Loop) Jackson goes the Bard one better, presenting the heroine’s life—“mundane to extraordinary”—over the course of a century, decade by decade, each set to music by a different composer. The score is based on the time-honored pattern of an “omnibus,” each segment being assigned to a different composer, with Andy Akiho, Alistair Coleman, Nathalie Joachim, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Rene Orth, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kamala Sankaram, Dan Schlosberg, and Errollyn Wallen along for the ride. Apart from Justin Vivian Bond, the cast includes Kiera Duffy, Rehanna Thelwell, Nicky Spence, and Nicholas Newton, juggling the roles of Santa and Mrs. Claus, an Octogenarian, Algorithms 1, 2, and 3, and Death (whose music is distributed among three voices). —Matthew Gurewitsch