Caroline, or Change
Book and Lyrics by Tony Kushner Music by Jeanine Tesori
Directed by Robert McQueen
Music Direction by Reza Jacobs
2011-2012
Jan 21-Feb 12, 2012
An Acting Up Stage Company production
In association with Obsidian Theatre
Canadian Premiere
Caroline, an African American maid to a Southern Jewish family, is struggling to keep afloat both emotionally and economically, while the young son of her employer tries to make sense of the world following the death of his mother. A Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Obie award-winning musical, Caroline, or Change mixes fact and fantasy, symbolism and reality, plus a wide palette of musical styles to tell the story of ordinary people facing extraordinary change in 1963.
Cast
Arlene Duncan,Neema Bickersteth, Jewelle Blackman, Deborah Hay, Alana Hibbert, Sterling Jarvis, Kaya Joubert Johnson, Londa Laramond, Michael Levinson, Cameron MacDuffee, Mary Pitt, Nicholas Rice, Derrick Roberts, Sabryn Rock, Shawn Wright
Winner of four Dora Mavor Moore Awards including Outstanding Production of a Musical, Best principal actress Arlene Duncan, Best principal actor Sterling Jarvis and Outstanding Musical Direction Reza Jacobs.
