‘Suffs’ is Broadway’s Most Essential Show
metroweekly.comHamilton, oldest sister Angelica sings, “I’m a girl in which, my only job is to marry rich.” None of them would live long enough to experience the painstaking efforts assumed by their female successors for a woman’s right to vote.Fortunately, their descendants and current audiences are hearing a completely different song just a few blocks away in New York’s theater district, thanks largely to Shaina Taub.An Obie Award-winning singer/songwriter, Taub has written the book, a winning score, and lyrics for the completely original, historically based Suffs, which tracks the decades-long struggle for fair and equal treatment of women to be treated as equally as men.
The show educates, inspires, and persuades — all while being incredibly entertaining.Taub also stars in the show as Alice Paul, an activist considered one of the major architects of the twentieth-century suffragist movement.
Truly, a woman’s work is never done, especially when it comes to changing the short-sighted mind of President Woodrow Wilson (Grace McLean).You need only look at current headlines reporting a rollback on U.S.
reproductive rights, global income inequality, access to healthcare and education, and other vital issues around suppression to realize that the fight is far from over.
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