Joy Mangano’s inspirational rise from rags to inventor to QVC queen has been a Jennifer Lawrence movie and a book. Now it’s set to song.

Grammy-winning artist Samara Joy is 25, but critics say she reminds them of jazz royalty from the 1940s and 1950s. It isn't the music she grew up with, but Joy is making jazz her own.

Whether you love Joy: A New True Musical as much as its producers desire depends on two things: your devotion to mops (talk about mops, songs about mops—just mops, mops, mops), alongside an ...