Book Description "There are moments in the history of theatre when stagecraft takes a new turn I like to think that this happened for the American musical last week, when Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change (at the Public), a collaboration with composer Jeanine Tesori and the director George C Wolfe, bushwhacked a path beyond the narrative огзоу end of the deconstructed, overfreighted musicals of the past thirty years "-John Lahr, The New Yorker Louisiana, 1963: A nation reeling from theburgeoning 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 Tony Kushner is best known for the two-part masterwork, Angels in America, recently produced by HBO as a six-hour television event, directed by Mike Nichols to universal acclaim His other plays include Homebody/Kabul, A Bright Room Called Day and Slavs!; as well as adaptations of Corneille's The Illusion, Ansky's The Dybbuk, Brecht's The Good Person of Szechuan and Goethe's Stella Current projects include: Henry Box Brown or The Mirror of Slavery and St Cecilia or The Power of Music He recently collaborated with Maurice Sendak on an American version of the children's opera, Brundibar He grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and he lives in New York Jeanine Tesori wrote the scorefor Thoroughly Modern Millie, which won the 2002 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Musical and the multiple-award-winning Violet.  Wolfgan2004 г 128 стр ISBN 1559362480.