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Music | Shaina Taub |
Lyrics | Shaina Taub |
Book | Shaina Taub |
Basis | Women's suffrage in the United States |
Premiere | April 6, 2022: The Public Theater |
Productions | 2022 Off-Broadway 2024 Broadway |
Awards | Tony Award for Best Book Tony Award for Best Score Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music |
Suffs is a stage musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Shaina Taub, based on suffragists and the American women's suffrage movement, focusing primarily on the historical events leading up to the ratification of the nineteenth amendment to the United States constitution in 1920 that gave some women, primarily white women, the right to vote.[1] It premiered off-Broadway at The Public Theater in April 2022.
The show opened on Broadway on April 18, 2024 at the Music Box Theatre. It received positive reviews from critics and 6 nominations at the 77th Tony Awards, including Best Musical, winning 2, for Best Book and Best Score.[2][3]