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Caroline, or Change

Caroline, or Change

Shows · Caroline, or Change

In 1963 Louisiana, African-American maid Caroline Thibodeaux works in the basement of the Gellman family, a Jewish household mourning the recent death of the mother. Eight-year-old Noah Gellman leaves his change in his pockets for Caroline, but when his stepmother makes a rule that Caroline can keep any change she finds, it forces both Caroline and Noah to confront uncomfortable truths about race, money, and the wind…

Opened
2004
Performances
136
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Jeanine TesoriLyrics: Tony KushnerBook: Tony Kushner

Productions4 on Broadway

2004 Eugene O'Neill Theatre Original. May 2, 2004 · George C. Wolfe 136 performances
2006 Transfer Theatre not recorded.
2007 Transfer Theatre not recorded.
2021 Studio 54 Revival. October 27, 2021 · Chichester Festival Theatre 85 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Caroline, or Change matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature20 passages

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). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p45

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. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p385

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) book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p594

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… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p717

Caroline, or Change, 554-55, 676, 677 book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p839

"Caroline, or Change 283, 440" book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p495

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