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"This is the 'ravishing and revolutionary' (New Yorker) Broadway musical from the author of ""Angels in America"" - published alongside its UK premiere at the National Theatre. This work is set in Louisiana, 1963 - a nation reeling from the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement and the Kennedy assassination. Caroline, a black maid, and Noah, the son of the Jewish family she works for, struggle to find an identity for their friendship. Through their intimate story, this beautiful new musical portrays the changing rhythms of a nation. Tony Kushner and composer Jeanine Tesori have created a story that addresses contemporary questions of culture, community, race and class through the lens and musical pulse of the 1960s."

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'An extraordinary new musical' New York Times 'The first great piece of musical theatre of the 21st century' Boston Globe 'A monumental achievement in American musical theater' New York Observer

'Electrifying... there are moments in the history of theatre when stagecraft takes a new turn. This happened for the musical when Caroline, or Change bushwacked a path beyond the musical of the past thirty years' New Yorker 'The first great piece of musical theater of the 21st century' Boston Globe 'A monumental achievement. Joyful, wholly successful, immensely moving, told with abundant wit and generosity of heart... the finest musical to come our way in a long, long time' New York Observer 'Groundbreaking, daring, beautiful and profoundly humane. The best show of the year' Time Out New York 'amazing piece of music-theatre... combines great dramatic intensity with wild flights of fantasy and music of thrilling variety and strength... the daring mixture of whimsy, passion and radical politics succeeds triumphantly' Daily Telegraph 'Remarkable... Kushner's non-linear book focuses on a relationship while giving us a kaleidoscopic portrait of a community... the ultimate upstairs-downstairs musical' Guardian

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Tony Kushner is best known for the two-part Angels in America, which premiered at the National Theatre in London, and won the Pulitzer prize and a Tony Award in New York. His other plays include A Bright Room Called Day, Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul, as well as adaptations of The Illusion and The Dybbuk, all available from NHB. Jeanine Tesori wrote the score for Thoroughly Modern Millie, which won the 2002 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Musical.

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