Kushner play fills ‘Town’ slot
“Caroline, or Change,” the autobiographically inspired Tony Kushner musical about the relationship between a white boy in Louisiana and the family’s black maid in 1963, will replace the canceled “Wonderful Town” on the Ahmanson Theatre season.
Tony nominee Tonya Pinkins and Tony winner Anika Noni Rose will appear in the touring production. George C. Wolfe will again direct.
The show will transfer to San Francisco after playing in L.A., Nov. 14 to Dec. 26.
The proposed “Wonderful Town” tour ran into trouble during the summer, when Clear Channel Entertainment pulled its 25 venues -- including Orange County Performing Arts Center -- from the tour, accompanied by a statement that casting was not “concrete enough to meet our immovable deadlines.”
After the tour was canceled, the Ahmanson hoped to remount the Broadway production just for L.A., an Ahmanson spokesman said, but the decision of the Broadway producers to keep the show running in New York stopped that plan.
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Don Shirley
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