In the end, “Suffs” does what all of the best Broadway musicals do: it humanizes, empowers, entertains and moves an audience.
Nikki M. James as Ida B. Wells and cast in “Suffs” on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in New York. NEW YORK — With Hillary Rodham Clinton as a producer, an all-female cast of 23 playing historical figures, and a weighty, educational topic like the history of women’s suffrage in the United States leading up to the 1920 ratification of the 19th amendment to the U.S.
But, in the end, “Suffs” does what all of the best Broadway musicals do: it humanizes and empowers, and it entertains and moves an audience. The main conflict here is the issue argued over by activists and organizers since the beginning of organized political revolt: Do you lobby within the system, cajoling, persuading and flattering where necessary to get legislation passed without upsetting your foes, or do you subscribe to the view that well-behaved women never changed the world and unleash the mass demonstrations, the hunger strikes, the bodies in the way of cars on the metaphorical...
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