“I knew that if I were ever to get involved, it would have to be something that I thought was both entertaining and important,” Clinton says of making her debut as a Broadway producer with “Suffs.”
How much can really be accomplished in a two-and-a-half-hour runtime? Consider Suffs, which opened at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre last night, boasting an all-female and non-binary cast singing piquant tunes underpinned by an all-female and non-binary pit orchestra; a story spanning intergenerational drama, defectors, tragic death; a score with a rousing ballad titled “Great American Bitch”; and a lawyer-cum-suffragist character who leads a march from atop a white steed.
“It was always important to me to honestly depict the racism within the suffrage movement, and to make quite clear in the thesis of the show that the 19th Amendment, while monumental, was an incomplete victory, for Black women and people of color in this country especially,” wrote Taub. “The internecine conflicts within the women of the movement over this issue were the stuff of drama to me, actually.
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