Caroline, or Change

Exciting, complex, sometimes surreal and always theatrical, this musical story enters the world of a black maid working for a well-to-do Louisiana family. On the national stage, the era of civil rights is playing out: Dr. King, freedom rides, Supreme Court debates, and church bombings. But underdog Caroline is playing out the right and wrong of all that in the laundry room of the nice people she works for. The young son of the family, estranged from his new stepmother, relies on her. Can Caroline square her dreams with the boy’s as her own life changes with the times? Caroline, or Change features a superb score by Jeanine Tesori and a book by Tony Kushner.