'Caroline, or Change' was ahead of its audience in 2003, but it's perfectly tailored to this moment. Read critic helen_e_shaw on the 'overwhelming power' of the revival
Sharon D Clarke in Caroline, or Change, at Studio 54.
So I think his comma does three things. It recalls titles from another time, double-barreled old names like Twelfth Night, or What You Will. It exactly divides the title into two eight-letter groups, the stroke of the comma acting as the bar on a metric balance. And third, the comma makes you — literally — pause. These also happen to be the three gestures of the musical itself.
Noah likes to join Caroline down among the appliances, even though she gives him little encouragement. She’s grouchy with him, but he worships her. Noah — his mother dead, a new stepmother, Rose , trying to take her place — clearly wishes Caroline could rule over him solely and absolutely.
When the original U.S. production of Caroline, or Change came to Broadway from the Public in 2004, it was critically beloved but not financially successful. Perhaps the city is ready for it now. It certainly seems so exactly tailored to this moment that I kept checking the script. Had they changed it? No, Caroline always contained the image of a toppled and beheaded Confederate memorial, a Johnny Reb statue turning a bilious copper green in the wet Louisiana air.
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