Caroline, or Change (2012)
Book and Lyrics by Tony Kushner Music by Jeanine Tesori
Directed by Robert McQueen
Music Direction by Reza Jacobs
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.
Winner of four Dora Mavor Moore Awards including:
Outstanding Production of a Musical
Best Principal Actress, Arlene Duncan
Best principal Actor, Sterling Jarvis
Outstanding Musical Direction, Reza Jacobs.
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