Sharon D. Clarke brings her Olivier Award-winning performance to Broadway, playing a struggling Black maid in early-'60s Louisiana in Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s chamber musical.
No disrespect to the original Caroline, Tonya Pinkins, who put an indelible stamp on a part that instantly joined the pantheon of Herculean female musical theater leads when the show debuted. But that premiere production, directed with customary precision by George C. Wolfe, was more admirable than involving.
Despite the drudgery and disappointment of the central character’s life as an underpaid maid, and her skepticism about the burgeoning civil rights movement’s chances of elevating the existence of Blacks in the South, the crushing stasis of Caroline’s situation kept her at a stubborn distance. The groundbreaking musical closed on Broadway after just 136 performances.
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