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	Review \| Caroline, Or Change
		But the pieces that mean something are here, from the hilarious opening as Caroline sings with the washing machine and dryer, to the set-up about the pocket change, to the confrontation, to "Lot's Wife," to the heartbreaking finale.
		Considering Caroline's inability to change, her daughter's full embrace of this changing world is startling -- and this, I think, is the point of the show.
		There is profound hope, I think, as we realize that Emmie and her brothers will take from Caroline all they need to survive, that they will use her anger and her love to remake their world, to change it in ways that Caroline herself might never fully understand.
	www.bluecoupe.com /DVD/caroorchange.html (1333 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - B'way should have spared us 'Change' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Changes have been made in Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's "Caroline, or Change" on its move to Broadway, but the quasi-operatic musical is no less dreary than it was downtown.
		The word "change" in the title refers to the fact that 1963 was indeed a period of great change in race relations.
		There is one powerful visual moment when Caroline, in her Sunday church clothes, passes the three radio girls in their sassy finery going in the other direction.
	www.nydailynews.com /05-03-2004/entertainment/v-pfriendly/story/189502p-163966c.html (483 words)

	village voice > theater > Caroline, Or Change, By Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori by Michael Feingold
		The good news is that Caroline, or Change has survived its expansion to Broadway size with its dignity and beauty intact, and with its dazzling top-quality Public Theater cast even enhanced by the one major change in personnel, the substitution of warmly mellifluous Aisha de Haas for pert Adriane Lenox as The Moon.
		The bad news—for Caroline, like the moon, has a dark side—is that some small, skillful revisions have clarified the narrative but not solved the structural problems that make this fascinating evening seem to be constantly getting in its own way.
		But lovely as Caroline is, its elliptical mixture of small narrative details and big abstract statements never fuses convincingly into a single picture, and all the magnetic fervor of Tonya Pinkins's towering performance in the stoic, static central role can't prevent our attention from drifting to the more energizing figures around her.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0418,feingold3,53208,11.html (241 words)

	Caroline, Or Change
		Caroline is also caught between the changes she sees in her closest friend, her children, as well as in the family she works for.
		Above all is the change that threatens the uneasy bond between Carolyn and Noah and has existed ever since Noah's father, Stuart (David Costabile), remarried following the death of his wife from cancer.
		Although the change, mostly quarters, means a lot to Caroline, especially feeding her three children on her salary of $30 a week, it creates a rift between her and Noah, further aggravated by her finding a misplaced $20 bill.
	www.theatrescene.net /ts/articles.nsf/BM/90DF88FB31EB4A2085256E99006F5A1B (911 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Caroline, or Change
		Caroline's employer, Rose Stopnick (Veanne Cox), has her own musical language, too, shorn of sustained melody to reflect the tangle of anxieties that beset and distract her.
		Caroline repudiates the hate that has burst from her heart at the prospect of even a small financial windfall.
		As is to be expected from Kushner, "Caroline, or Change" is acute in its analysis of a complicated social ecosystem.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117923730?categoryid=33&cs=1 (1021 words)

	GLT » Caroline, or Change
		Caroline, or Change revolves around two characters: Caroline Thibodeaux (Tonya Pinkins, reprising her Broadway role), a fl maid in the Lake Charles, Louisiana home of the Gellmans, and Noah (Benjamin Platt), the 9-year-old son of this well-to-do Jewish family.
		Caroline is the victim of (and still mourns) a broken marriage to a violent man who left her to raise three children on $30 per week.
		Caroline’s domain is the downstairs laundry room; her constant companions are The Washing Machine (a very frontloaded Capathia Jenkins), The Dryer (Chuck Cooper), and The Radio (Tracy Nicole Chapman, Marva Hicks, Kenna Ramsey), looking and sounding very like The Supremes.
	www.gaylesbiantimes.com /?id=4054&issue=886 (1192 words)

	Caroline, or Change - Tony Kushner/Jeanine Tesori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Caroline objects, consciously out of her strong sense of honesty, but there's also a sense of being demeaned by Rose's patronizing, if well intentioned rule.
		The pocket change plot device is not strong enough and almost trivializes the depth of Caroline's internal conflicts.
		The latter, however, are powerfully expressed in Perkins' riveting performance of Caroline's big soliloquy, her passionately expressed concern that a lifetime of crushed hopes will overcome her good judgement: "Don't let my sorrow make evil of me!" But for all its emotion, not even this aria gets into the viewer's gut; it feels strangely distant.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater8/Caroline.htm (700 words)

	village voice > theater > Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's Caroline, or Change by Michael Feingold
		Social change is brewing all around Caroline, but she shuns it as she does the loose change Noah habitually leaves in his pants pockets.
		Caroline doesn't talk so much as she is talked at by the appliances in the laundry room (Cooper plays the dryer), by the moon (Lenox), and by a more progressive fellow maid (Wilson).
		Neither Caroline's family nor her employers' seems to have any connections to the larger community, and there is a sense of their living in a void shaped by theory rather than by a feeling of life, despite many little details that touch on the latter.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0349/feingold.php (840 words)

	USATODAY.com - Music, emotion unite in 'Caroline, or Change' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Caroline is, like Angels, ultimately a celebration of human fortitude, of the vast resources of love and hope that allow people of all backgrounds and belief systems to transcend hatred and despair.
		Granted, leading lady Tonya Pinkins probably didn't require a lot of coaching; her Caroline is a miraculous force of nature, capable of conveying faith and fury, longing and remorse with equal intensity.
		Were more modern musicals as bold and winning as Caroline, or Change, I would share her optimism for the future.
	www.usatoday.com /life/theater/reviews/2004-05-02-caroline-change_x.htm (509 words)

	Playbill News: Dollars Accepted for Caroline, or Change Musical, as Tix Go on Sale Beginning Sept. 30
		Caroline or Change takes place in Louisiana in 1963, just before President Kennedy's assassination and during the Civil Rights movement.
		Caroline is the fl maid of a Southern family, made up of a father, his new wife and the man's young son.
		The title has a double meaning, referring to the myriad social changes swirling around the family and a family argument surrounding the spare change perpetually found in the boy's pants pockets.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/81909.html (806 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Caroline, or Change - 11/30/03
		Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Caroline, or Change - 11/30/03
		Rather, Caroline, or Change is a poetry musical, taking place in a modern setting (Louisiana in 1963) and dealing with modern social issues, and feeling as completely "today" as all innovative musicals do when first presented.
		For Noah, who likes Caroline much as his late mother did, Caroline's acceptance of this agreement is something of a betrayal; for Rose, it's an opportunity to give Caroline the raise the family can't officially afford; and for Caroline and her children, it's an opportunity for a better life.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /ob/11_30_03.html (976 words)

	FOH Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The ambitious Caroline, Or Change, a 2 1/2-hour musical that is literally sung through with minimal dialogue, graduated from Off-Broadway to Broadway to critical acclaim this past March, eventually snagging six Tony nominations and winning one for Anika Noni Rose, Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
		Despite the accolades, however, Caroline became one of four Broadway shows to be cancelled at the end of August, just a few days before FOH sat down to chat with the show’s sound designer, Jon Weston.
		Caroline, Or Change offers a continuous stream of music in many different styles.
	www.fohonline.com /issue?di=0409&fi=theater.txt (1136 words)

	Caroline, Or Change To Close (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Caroline, or Change is the story of an African-American woman working as a maid for a Jewish family as the Civil Rights-movement is about to explode.
		Caroline, Or Change broke new ground in the American musical theatre, and this amazing musical will be seen by many more theatre-goers across the world in the years to come."
		Tonya Pinkins (Caroline) was nominated for a Tony and Anika Noni Rose (Emmie) won the award.
	arts.monstersandcritics.com /news/printer_704.php (146 words)

	Caroline, or Change, a CurtainUp review
		It is change, and the sorrows, hopes and fears that accompany it, that encapsulate the playwright's intent.
		This is Caroline's story, her dissatisfaction with life coupled with her resistance to and discomfort with change and her very timid first step towards accepting it.
		The parallels between the changes in the lives of the two families and the larger events in the town and the rest of the country are drawn with wit and admirable restraint from sermonizing.
	www.curtainup.com /carolineorchange.html (1709 words)

	Compelling 'Caroline, or Change' justifies producer's vision, does Best of Broadway proud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A dispute over pocket change drives the story, but it's the fraught, emotional changes in a family and the social upheaval shaking the country that form its center.
		Caroline is the life-scarred, middle-aged, unsmiling African American maid for the Gellmans, a family (like Kushner's) of Jewish musicians.
		Caroline's none too happy with her role as a maid, though she sees no way out, and is perpetually short of cash.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/20/DDGN7ASDEB1.DTL (1038 words)

	Buy Caroline Or Change Tickets - Cheap Caroline Or Change Theater Show Tickets At Onlineseats
		Caroline is the fl maid employed by a Jewish family made up of a father, his young son, and the father's new wife.
		The title has a double meaning, referring to the myriad social changes swirling around the family, as well as to a family argument surrounding the spare change perpetually found in the boy's pants pockets.
		Caroline, Or Change is the story of an African-American woman working as a maid for a Jewish family as the Civil Rights movement is about to ignite.
	www.onlineseats.com /theater/caroline-tickets/index.asp (636 words)

	LA Weekly: Theater: Misery Loves Caroline
		Against this backdrop in Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s surprisingly exuberant musical, Caroline, or Change (now at the Ahmanson, imported almost intact from Broadway), and partly based on Kushner’s childhood, Caroline, the maid (Tonya Pinkins), laments the absence of the husband who beat her, and the burden of rearing three children on $30 per week.
		Caroline, or Change pivots and catapults from the duo of Caroline and Noah.
		At first she deposits the found change in an empty bleach jar, to be returned.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/04/52/theater-morris.php (1683 words)

	Print Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Caroline is struggling to raise three children at home (her eldest is a soldier) on a measly
		So the "change" in the show's title refers to change on a large scale — like the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which occurs in the middle of Act 1 — change on a literal level (pocket change) and, most profoundly, change on a personal level.
		Her dour Caroline smiles maybe twice during the whole 21/2-hour show, and the more we see into her emotional life, the more we understand why.
	www.insidebayarea.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2531674 (794 words)

	Show Business Weekly: Review: Caroline, or Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Out of the blue, Caroline’s employer, Rose Gellman (Veanne Cox), decides once and for all to put an end to her stepson Noah’s (Harrison Chad) bad habit of leaving pocket change in his pants pockets.
		The solution: let the maid, Caroline, keep it; it will teach Noah a lesson, let him know who the boss is, and after all, Caroline could use the money, Rose is certain.
		Even Caroline’s own daughter, Emmie, is talking about a whole other type of change on the horizon.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/257/caroline_change.shtml (676 words)

	Caroline, Or Change - Prymate - Engaged - The Distance From Here - New York Magazine Theater Review
		The operative concept is a pun on the meanings of “change.” It is what Emmie foresees for her race and herself but what Caroline is reluctant to adopt even though the radio advocates it (while the washing machine and dryer seem unconvinced).
		But then there is change in the sense of coins, which the forgetful Noah keeps leaving in his pants, and which Caroline retrieves.
		The text tries to connect this small change with all sorts of large phenomena, from Noah’s reaction to his unloved stepmother to the nascent civil-rights movement, a burden the far-fetched and overworked conceit cannot bear.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/theater/reviews/n_10360 (710 words)

	Caroline, or Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Set in Louisiana in the early 1960s, this tale of the relationship between a young white boy and his family's fl maid seeks to encompass both personal and political themes, utilizing a mixture of naturalism and fantasy, and ultimately fails to convince on all counts.
		Caroline (Tonya Pinkins) is an emotionally stolid divorcee and mother of four children who works as a maid for the Jewish Gellman family.
		When Noah leaves a $20 bill in his pocket and Caroline keeps it, angry words are spoken that drive a wedge between the two.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2048239 (475 words)

	USATODAY.com - Kushner's 'Caroline' gives voice to Jews and blacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Caroline is admittedly not as elegant or fully realized as the play that established Kushner as a major force in American theater.
		Through Caroline, Noah and their families, Kushner offers a refreshingly open and affectionate look at the tight but sometimes fractious bond between Jews and fls at a key moment in history, just after President Kennedy was assassinated and as tensions and troops were mounting in Vietnam.
		Caroline herself is given radiant life by Tonya Pinkins, whose raw, powerful singing is matched by an ability to convey warmth, anger and regret with shattering conviction.
	www.usatoday.com /life/theater/reviews/2003-12-01-caroline_x.htm (623 words)

	Caroline, Or Change - Broadway Musical - JimsDeli NYC Guide
		Synopsis Caroline, a fl, single mother of 39, is maid to a well-to-do Jewish family in 1963 Louisiana.
		The story is shaped by her changing (again) relationship with the son of the family for whom she works
		Notes Just on the strength of the creative team Caroline, Or Change garnered more "move to Broadway" chatter than any show in our recent memory before it opened at the Public Theater.
	www.jimsdeli.com /theater/2003-2004/caroline-change.htm (192 words)

	Powell's Books - Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Caroline, a fl maid, and Noah, the son of the Jewish family she works for, struggle to find an identity for their friendship.
		Through the intimate story of friendship between a fl maid and the son of her Jewish employers in 1963 Louisiana, this beautiful new musical portrays the changing rhythms of a nation.
		In Louisiana, 1963, Caroline, a fl maid, and Noah, the son of the Jewish family she works for, struggle to find an identity for their friendship.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=28371&cgi=product&isbn=1559362480 (396 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: Caroline, or Change - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The other change that's coin of the realm in a story taking place in Lake Charles, Louisiana circa 1963-64 is the shift of civil rights attitudes and their immediate effects on fls and liberal Jews.
		Increasingly, Caroline has her hands full with Emmie since the young girl is simultaneously influenced by Martin Luther King's preaching against violence and beginning to think that there are more attractive alternatives to toiling in white people's homes.
		Throughout Caroline, or Change there are compelling musical interludes and generous samplings of Tony Kushner's persistent intelligence, yet this potent show would have been even more potent had the score reached the high standards that Kushner has elsewhere established for himself.
	ibs.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=4663 (1183 words)

	Caroline, don't change the format! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		These plans to change the format caused some consternation among Caroline fans, whose anger already had been aroused at the start of April, when Nigel Harris wrote on his website that the format would have to change and declared that some deejays were downright amateurs.
		Caroline is, and should continue to be, a broad based album station, as it used to be.
		As on 19 East there won't be that many British listeners left, Caroline has to gain thousands of new listeners on the continent and to get on another satellite position — may it be 28 degrees or World Space — as soon as possible.
	www.icce.rug.nl /~soundscapes/VOLUME04/Caroline_dont_change.html (1845 words)

	Newsday.com: "Caroline, or Change"
		Before "Caroline, or Change" opened at the Public Theater last November, there were tantalizing expectations of creative boundaries broken and political sensibilities challenged.
		"Caroline" moved to Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theatre last night, and how we'd love to be able to change sides in the conflicting passions generated by the show.
		The cast is extraordinary, especially Anika Noni Rose as Caroline's independent daughter and Chandra Wilson as her politically evolving friend.
	www.newsday.com /entertainment/stage/ny-etledew3783666may03,0,1614470.story?coll=ny-theater-print (611 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: The Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The terrain is a metaphor for Caroline’s internal landscape: she is literally and figuratively swamped.
		The musical’s title plays on the word “change.” While the Kennedy assassination and the civil-rights struggle percolate at the edges of the story and inform it, the change on which the play immediately focusses is the quarters, nickels, and dimes that Noah is forever leaving in his pockets.
		Caroline gives him the money and a goodbye; in her humiliation, she walks off the job and stays away for five days.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/theatre?031208crth_theatre (1201 words)

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