Caroline, or Change (Broadway musical)

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"Caroline, or Change" is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori that blends blues, Motown, klezmer, and traditional musical theater to explore race, class, and change in 1960s Louisiana through the story of an African American maid.

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instanceOf Broadway musical
stage musical
award Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical NERFINISHED
awardWinner Anika Noni Rose NERFINISHED
bookBy Tony Kushner NERFINISHED
broadwayRevivalYear 2021
broadwayTheatre Eugene O’Neill Theatre NERFINISHED
broadwayTransferYear 2004
composer Jeanine Tesori NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
lyricist Tony Kushner NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Caroline Thibodeaux NERFINISHED
musicalStyle Motown NERFINISHED
blues
klezmer
traditional musical theatre
musicBy Jeanine Tesori NERFINISHED
nominatedFor Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical NERFINISHED
Tony Award for Best Musical NERFINISHED
Tony Award for Best Original Score NERFINISHED
notableCharacter Emmie Thibodeaux NERFINISHED
Noah Gellman NERFINISHED
Rose Stopnick Gellman NERFINISHED
Stuart Gellman NERFINISHED
The Bus NERFINISHED
The Dryer NERFINISHED
The Radio
The Washing Machine NERFINISHED
originalLanguage English
originalOffBroadwayTheatre The Public Theater NERFINISHED
premiereCity New York City NERFINISHED
premiereLocation The Public Theater NERFINISHED
premiereYear 2003
protagonistEmployerFamilyName Gellman family NERFINISHED
protagonistOccupation African American maid
revivalProduction 2017 Chichester Festival Theatre production
revivalTransfer West End NERFINISHED
settingCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
settingLocation Lake Charles, Louisiana NERFINISHED
settingTimePeriod 1960s
1963
subjectMatter African American domestic workers in the American South
Jewish American family life in the 1960s
theme civil rights movement
class
race
social change
westEndTheatre Playhouse Theatre NERFINISHED

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Anika Noni Rose awardReceivedFor Caroline, or Change (Broadway musical)
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Anika Noni Rose notableWork Caroline, or Change (Broadway musical)
Daryl Roth notableWork Caroline, or Change (Broadway musical)
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George C. Wolfe notableWork Caroline, or Change (Broadway musical)
this entity surface form: Caroline, or Change (Broadway production)
George C. Wolfe notableWork Caroline, or Change (Broadway musical)
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Margo Lion notableWork Caroline, or Change (Broadway musical)
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Tony Kushner notableWork Caroline, or Change (Broadway musical)
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Veanne Cox notableWork Caroline, or Change (Broadway musical)
this entity surface form: Caroline, or Change (stage production)
The Public Theater produced Caroline, or Change (Broadway musical)
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Jennifer Laura Thompson theatreCredit Caroline, or Change (Broadway musical)
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