#suffs broadway

[mttztrading]

We must respect and protect Our vernal, eternal, gracious, vivacious Ladies!!

Grace McLean performs Ladies - Suffs on Broadway

📷 @bikinibottomdayz

[theatrical-penguin]

I saw 10 of the new shows this year (3 Revivals and 7 New Musicals). So I decided to rate and rank them:

1 - Suffs 10/10 - What an incredible show! Such a talented cast and I want the soundtrack immediately! I had tears streaming down my face at the end of both acts. Shaina Taub and Hannah Cruz are particularly great. And Grace McLean as Pres Wilson is hilarious. The set is excellently done to evoke the locales and move things along. Strong direction all the way. My pick for Best Musical.

2 - Water For Elephants 9.5/10 - amazing cast; should get an award for ensemble; nice use of puppets - Rosie reveal was perfect. Grant was incredible as was August. Went up in rank as the week went on because the music really stuck with me and I wanted to hear it again.

3 - Outsiders 9//10 - loved the choreo. Ponyboy is great. The gravel stage and flashlights were particularly effective. Best lighting design and use of rain

4 - Merrily We Roll Along 8.5/10 - was slightly concerned by Groff’s flat affect in first scene until it became clear it was a choice as he became more vibrant as time moved back. Daniel was perfect and the friendship between the 3 leads really came through. His Franklin Shepherd Inc is worth the Tony on its own. I can only assume I was supposed to hate Gussie because I totally did.

5 - Cabaret 8/10 - confession: I had never seen Cabaret in any form and I didn’t research the plot so I had no idea what was happening between the KitKat numbers. Really good production- excellent staging, never felt left out in the round. Eddie Redmayne was creepily intriguing. Sally seemed more broken than I would have thought from hearing songs from previous productions. Dark and moody; not a huge fan of the immersive preshow. No program pic bc they covered all phone cameras with stickers on the way in (before giving us a shot of really bad schnapps)

6 - The Wiz 8/10 - bright and fun! Excellent performances especially the 4 leads. LOVE the Lion. Costumes are gorgeous and the dancing is fabulous. Does Wayne Brady have to be there the whole show since he’s not on til Act 2?

7 - Gatsby 8/10 - bubbly and fun; loved the opulence of set & costumes; great dancing and some really good songs; loved Jeremy Jordan’s Gatsby - the insecurities coming through the glam

8 - Notebook 7.5/10 - Heartbreaking performance by Old Allie especially. What is with that water on stage this year?

9 - Hells Kitchen 7/10 - great dancing. Lead actress was great but maybe im too old to identify with her instead of her mother. Again with death of a supporting character.

10 - Back To The Future 7/10 - Roger Bart is hilarious - definitely the reason to see the show. Set was actually a little underwhelming - too much reliance on projections. Some fun numbers but no real standouts.

Overall: no shows I disliked this time. VERY strong season. Some really creative use/resuses of minimalistic elements this season. Other season trends: full size cars and actual rain. And death - so much death

[daydreaming-optimist]

suffs (shaina taub)

"do you carry your banner as far as you can rewriting the world with your imperfect pen 'til the next stubborn girl picks it up in a picket line over and over again?"

[cinelestial]

SUFFS wins Best Original Score & Best Book of a Musical at the 2024 TONY AWARDS

[sondheim-girly]

CHAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[theatrical-penguin]

Suffs with Water For elephants a close second

[mijnlevenisvanmij]

selling my bootleg collection!

not sure if anyone will see this, but. i am selling my entire bootleg collection. i have links to almost 600 musicals, mostly new. none of them are youtube rips. if anyone's interested, pls feel free to slide into my dms for more details!!

i am also open to trading as always <3

[spaceasianmillennial]

SUFFS Notes: So I've seen both the off-Broadway and Broadway version

2 years earlier, I experienced the Public version of Suffs (before Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai got producer credits). I even own two press scripts.

The Broadway Suffs opening is "Let Mother Vote" and oh I did fell in love with this opening because of how well it established the Carrie's conservative formation and showed us just how seductive it can be. I also kinda miss the older version that opened with woman and non-binary performers dressed as anti-suffrage men making all these awful anti-suffs slogans. By dressing up as the patriachy, these women and non-binary actors really own the story. The Broadway version has less emphasis on ensemble anti-suffs.

Anyone who has seen the Broadway version know that President Woodrow Wilson (Grace McLean) can't stop singing about "Ladies" and their proper domestic place. Now the off-Broadway run has an comedic ironic payoff to this. President Wilson suddenly gets a chest pain, a stroke, and it is a silly moment (I remember the entire theatre laughing hard). We see a few blackouts of him suffering, and SUDDENLY COSTUME CHANGE, Grace McLean is standing there in a black dress, now playing First Lady Edith Wilson, who took up "Stewardship" when her husband was disabled by his stroke. So Edith starts signing some of his paperwork, ("tariff reform, YOUR FAVORITE") and she runs into a paper that says, "Support for Ratification of the Suffrage Amendment." The stage direction indicates she might be on the "verge of epiphany," and she wonders if she should support it, but then she's like "Absolutely NO!" and rips it. It's a funny way of indicating that just because a First Lady has a Presidential role, that doesn't mean she has empathy for women's rights.

I can see why they cut from the Public, but I do miss the silly transformation sequence of President Wilson‘s stroke and Edith Wilson’s stewardship. (Just cause a First Lady got handed power, doesn’t mean she’s gonna save you.)

One striking change is more conspicuous racial stratification in the cast whereas Aisha de Haas, a Black actor, played the white socialite/Tennessee mother at the Public. Light-skinned BIPOC play white characters, and the Broadway script/direction nods a little more when a dark-skinned BIPOC is in a white role.

For example, in the Broadway version, a Black Tsilala Brock plays the white Irish Dudley and President Wilson utters the lines, "honest for an Irishman!" to bring deliberate attention to the race-bent casting.

Also, the Filipino actress Jaygee Macapugay plays the white Mollie Hay. When Wilson says, "The south will never let ladies vote, let alone colored ladies, thank God," he condescendingly takes Mollie Hay by the waist and Jaygee scrunches this deliberately astonished expression at "colored ladies."

The Broadway version cuts out verses of an anonymous Chinese American suffrage who brought her baby to a march. So I went to the Broadway SUFFS with a Black woman seatmate (who never caught the older version) and she felt the musical didn't directly address other suffrage ethnicities outside of white women and Black women. Yes, there is a diversity of BIPOC people playing white suffrages in both versions (and other backgrounders of color are somewhat suggestive of unnamed suffrages of color who did exist), but now there's no longer a direct acknowledgment of Asian suffrages.

The Broadway did some good work to add a sequence of Inez Milholland (Hannah Cruz) working herself to the bone and exhausting herself across states, with a succession of banners signaling another location, leading to her tragic death. It hits way harder than the off-Broadway version (where Phillipa Soo played Inez).

The Broadway version of Suffs tightened some of the numbers. For example, "When We Are Married/If We Are Married" were separate private moments. The Broadway version combined them and juxtaposition the kisses between the heterosexual Dudley and Doris Stevens ("When We Are Married") with the clandestine lesbian Mollie Hay and Carrie Chapman Catt ("IF We Were Married").

Mollie and Carrie did not kiss in the older iteration. So the script goes from Mollie and Carrie "They want to kiss, but there are people around" to "both couples kiss." A moment where Mollie tells Carrie, "Carrie, it's getting late. Come upstairs" (a major hint of their relationship) was also not in the off-Broadway version.

[d-criss-news]

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[erikahenningsen]

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[droughtofapathy]

2023-2024 Broadway Season Ranked

I saw every new show that opened on Broadway in the 2023-2024 season. Once more, perfectly normal and not at all cost-prohibitive. Compared to seasons' past, this one was plentiful in new musicals and utterly bereft of quality. Usually I have at least four shows that rewire my entire circuitry, but not this time.

Do you have strong opinions on any of these new shows? Are you filled with unstoppable rage at this list? Do you agree wholeheartedly? Discuss.

[wizardiest-wizard-of-oz]

ok so I just got back from new york and I saw three shows instead of the original 5 I wanted to see I didn't get the merrily lottery or see little shop and I also stood in line for 2 hours for standing room tickets for jon jon and isa briones as well as ani difranco's last day but I was the first person in line after that sold out which I'm really mad about I've seen it twice on the tour though

first show I saw was water for elephants, super talented cast the music wasn't the strongest at all but the puppetry and choreography were phenomenal I cried so much at the end because I haven't read the book and wasn't expecting it

second show was suffs which was so good the music is amazing and the story was done really well and I think my mom enjoyed it more than I did because she's involved in a lot of feminist protests and that kind of thing but it was my favourite out of the shows I saw while I was there

last show I saw was great gatsby and I actually saw jeremy Jordan going into the theatre beforehand he looked like he didn't want to be noticed but I kind of said to my mom "holy crap that's Jeremy Jordan" and he laughed I think and the sets were amazing cast was amazing and I stayed for cast door afterwards and got my playbill signed by Noah j ricketts, Samantha Pauly, John Zdrojeski, and a couple others they were all really nice

also while waiting outside the hadestown box office phillip boykin walked by and we were all kind of standing there like holy shit and also after suffs we walked by the merrily cast door and saw jonathan groff Lindsay Mendez and Daniel radcliffe

[pranklinfierce]

I left my mark on the NYC Public Theater weird metal signing table

If bbaj has a revival you know who to thank

[sondheim-girly]

Tony’s cupcakes!

In order we have:

-suffs (one inspired by the album cover, the other by the white of the suffaregettes)

-hells kitchen (one inspired by the album cover, the other by the song kalidescope)

-the outsiders (one inspired by “stay gold” and the other by the ‘dirt’ onstage)

-water for elephants (one inspired by the song silver stars, the other by the big top of a circus)

-Illinoise (one inspired by the album cover with butterfly sprinkles, the other by the campfire)

-the notebook (two inspired by the color palettes of Noah and Allie, with a swirl of each other in each, and the other inspired by the album cover)

-cabaret (one inspired by Eddie redmayne as the mc, and the other by the eye logo)

-the who’s Tommy (inspired by its primary color pallet)

-Gutenberg (inspired by the album cover)

-Merrily we roll along (inspired by the color pallet for the marketing)

[malspinningyarns]

You know, we could be living in a timeline where we would have been finishing up a second term of President Hillary Clinton. Instead, we are living in the timeline where she lost the presidency, but might win a Tony Award for being a producer on the musical Suffs. At least it’s something.