EXCLUSIVE: Composer-actor Shaina Taub will lead the Broadway cast of her musical Suffs, reprising the role she played in the original, sold-out 2022 Off Broadway production.
The casting makes Taub only the second woman in Broadway history to write the book, music, lyrics and star in her own musical. (The first was the late Micki Grant, making Broadway history in 1972 with Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope.) Taub will play Alice Paul, the young suffragist at the forefront in the battle for women’s rights in the early 20th Century.
Taub’s previous credits include acclaimed musical adaptations of Twelfth Night and As You Like It at Shakespeare in the Park, and she has released three solo albums.
Joining Taub in the Broadway production – which begins previews at the Music Box Theatre on March 26 ahead of an April 18 opening night – will be Nikki M.
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