I saw Suffs on Broadway in May of the tumultuous election year that was 2024, and I thought it was relevant then. I didn't realize how much more relevant it would be to see this story about the final leg of the Women's Suffrage movement in 2026 in Minneapolis. As women's rights seem to diminish with every passing day, and protests continue and increase in size and frequency, in a city that's very familiar with marching and standing up for justice, meeting violence on the streets and being unfairly detained.
Suffs is an inspiring story of the women that worked for over 60 years to get women the right to vote in America, and the various and varying tactics they used, and reminds us not to take these rights for granted but to keep marching, because as we've recently seen, they can be taken away in an instant. Music/book/lyrics writer Shaina Taub (who also starred in the original production) has focused the long history of Women's Suffrage in this country on a handful of historical figures over the last few years before the passage of the 19th Amendment, creating a story that feels fresh and modern, that's as funny and entertaining as it is serious and moving. These
Suffs will be marching through Minneapolis through Sunday only -
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