The run closed August 29, 2004
- Opened
- May 2, 2004
- Closed
- August 29, 2004
- Performances
- 136
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 129th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Caroline, or Change 3 more that season
| 2006 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2007 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2021 | Studio 54 Revival · Chichester Festival Theatre | 85 perf. |
Who was in it17 named
Reathel Bean
David Costabile
Aisha de Haas
Marcus Carl Franklin
Marva Hicks
Leon G Thomas Iii
Chandra Wilson
10 of these 17 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters14 roles recorded
Charlie Gallacher Daniel Luniku Noah Gellman
Abiona Omonua Emmie Thibodeaux
Lauren Ward Rose Stopnick Gellman
Alex Gaumond Stuart Gellman
Nicola Hughes Dotty Moffett
Keisha Amponsa Banson, Gloria Ontiri, Jennifer Saayeng The Radio
Malinda Paris The Washing Machine
Ako Mitchell The Dryer / The Bus
Angela M Caesar The Moon
Ronald Chabvuka Louis Ekoku Mitchell Zhanghaza Jackie Thibodeaux
Josiah Choto Teni Taiwo Joe Thibodeaux
Teddy Kempner Mr. Stopnick
Beverley Klein Grandma Gellman
Vincent Pirillo Grandpa Gellman
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- George C. Wolfe
- Choreographer
- Hope Clarke
- Orchestrations
- Rick Bassett, Joseph Joubert, Buryl Red
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Caroline, or Change is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and lyrics and book by Tony Kushner. The score combines spirituals, blues, Motown, classical music, and Jewish klezmer and folk music. The show ran both Off-Broadway and on Broadway as well as in London.
Caroline, or Change (Tony Kushner, Jeanine Tesori) The Public Theater, New York, November 30 The Musical A Concise History Second Edition Ga Nzl Kurt Findlay Jamie 2 2022010, p. 488
- More recent book musicals with African American dimensions include Bring In ’Da Noise, Bring In ’Da Funk (1996), Ragtime (1998), Marie Christine (1999), and Caroline, or Change (2004). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 45
- Tesori’s early Broadway credits were as a dance arranger for the 1995 revival of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying and the 1998 revival of The Sound of Music. But it is as a composer of the scores for Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002) and Caroline, or Change (2004) that she has become best known. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 385
- Certain stageworks now call themselves musicals in which the entertainment factor long associated with musicals has been reduced or virtually eliminated: Caroline, or Change ( 2004) Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 594
- Tesori, perhaps the most wide-ranging musician of the five, followed her Off Broadway debut, Violet, with three different kinds of Broadway productions: a musical comedy, Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002), a musical drama for which Tony Kushner wrote the book and lyrics, Caroline, or Change, and an animated movical, Shre… Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 717
- Caroline, or Change, 554-55, 676, 677 Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 839
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What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Caroline, or Change at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.