[where activist Doris Stevens offers her personal account of the suffrage movement]. And it just blew my mind. As soon as I started reading the book, I thought, I have to do this. I couldn't believe I didn't know the story at all. It didn't make it to me in high school or college and it was so dramatic, exciting and dynamic. I couldn't believe there is not a huge slew of movies, plays and musicals about this topic. It felt crazy that the story is essentially untapped.
Brunner: The women in Suffs have this singular, united goal of getting the right to vote but their method to achieving it is so diverse.Initially I thought, I can't make the conflict between the suffragists and all the forces against them. That felt less interesting to me. We all know who was right or wrong on that side. What was much more interesting were the internal conflicts within the movement. These women all share a goal but have different ideas how to get there.
I think about how I’m constantly collaborating with fierce, dynamic, powerful, stubborn women like me. We all share goals of how to put on a production. One says, “No, we should do that.” Another says, “We should do this.” The fire is in collaboration—this messy, complicated, fractious wonderful relationship towards a common goal.
I open each act with a satirical, misogynist, anti-suffrage song: “Watch out for the Suffragette” and then “America When Feminized.” They are original songs but are inspired by real anti-suffrage vaudeville songs the time. There’s the idea that we, as women and non-binary performers, can take on that misogyny and reclaim this narrative that wasn't taught to us and to hopefully teach it to a new generation ourselves.you address racism within the movement. Alice Paul tells Ida B.
I didn’t want to present some glorified vision of what a social movement was, because that isn't truthful. The challenge of it all is that there is so much more history than I could ever show in my one, two-and-a-half-hour musical. You could write an entire musical about every single historical character I put on stage, even in a short moment. There is so much more to Ida B. Wells’ life that I'm able to dramatize in a musical.
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