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Friday, January 17, 2025
Shaina Taub Speaks at SUFFS' Final Performance: 'How Do We Keep Marching?'
www.broadwayworld.com: After Suffs played its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, January 5. Shaina Taub addressed the audience with her thoughts on the show's closing.
In the days leading up to Suffs closing, I kept up with everything about the show, wanting as much of it as I could before it closed. I never saw the show on Broadway, could only listen to the cast album from 2500 miles away, and yet I felt connected to it. Across time zones and an entire country, I felt a personal connection to the show. The first time I listened to the music was on a road trip with my mother right after I graduated high school. I’ve listened to it on repeat countless times since. The day after the election I learned “Keep Marching” on piano, playing it over and over again until my fingers hurt. The day Suffs closed, I watched Shaina Taub’s speech and wept. But she was right. We will keep marching, even as it gets harder, for ourselves, for the kids in whose eyes she saw the future, for each other, and for those who marched before us. For every loud little girl like me. I wished I could have been at the stage door one of those nights and told her how much the show meant to me.
I saw Suffs a few months ago and I was super impressed with Shana's story that she had created to represent the suffragist movement it was really emotional really moving just a really beautiful story told in a really beautiful way not to mention that the director was CMU Drama Alumni so icon shout out to her but I think that this curtain speech was really touching given the current political climate. I'm so happy that stuff is going on a national tour and I really hope to see it on the national tour but I think everybody should see the show. It's just such an important show that tells so much and tells such a true and important story that is a part of our country's history. In addition to this the design of Suffs was super brilliant and using real images that were taken during this time of the suffragists was super cool to see on the stage including their incorporation of fire into the design of the show so recommend the tour's incredible Curtain Speech incredible show overall.
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In the days leading up to Suffs closing, I kept up with everything about the show, wanting as much of it as I could before it closed. I never saw the show on Broadway, could only listen to the cast album from 2500 miles away, and yet I felt connected to it. Across time zones and an entire country, I felt a personal connection to the show. The first time I listened to the music was on a road trip with my mother right after I graduated high school. I’ve listened to it on repeat countless times since. The day after the election I learned “Keep Marching” on piano, playing it over and over again until my fingers hurt. The day Suffs closed, I watched Shaina Taub’s speech and wept. But she was right. We will keep marching, even as it gets harder, for ourselves, for the kids in whose eyes she saw the future, for each other, and for those who marched before us. For every loud little girl like me. I wished I could have been at the stage door one of those nights and told her how much the show meant to me.
I saw Suffs a few months ago and I was super impressed with Shana's story that she had created to represent the suffragist movement it was really emotional really moving just a really beautiful story told in a really beautiful way not to mention that the director was CMU Drama Alumni so icon shout out to her but I think that this curtain speech was really touching given the current political climate. I'm so happy that stuff is going on a national tour and I really hope to see it on the national tour but I think everybody should see the show. It's just such an important show that tells so much and tells such a true and important story that is a part of our country's history. In addition to this the design of Suffs was super brilliant and using real images that were taken during this time of the suffragists was super cool to see on the stage including their incorporation of fire into the design of the show so recommend the tour's incredible Curtain Speech incredible show overall.
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