The Gallery Players' CAROLINE, OR CHANGE Closes on Feb. 21

The Gallery Players' 'Caroline, or Change' will close on February 21, 2010.

Set in 1963 in sleepy Lake Charles, Louisiana, Caroline, or Change centers its action on the Gellman family and their African-American maid, Caroline. "Nothing ever happen underground in Louisiana / 'Cause there ain't no underground in Louisiana / There is only underwater." Caroline informs the audience at the beginning of the show, and Caroline herself is underwater, drifting through her life, nearly paralyzed by her circumstances - a single mother of four working in a service job to a white family. Caroline spends her days in the basement laundry room, with the Washing Machine (a sultry Caribbean blues singer), Dryer (a fiery R&B singer), and radio (a Supremes-like trio), with an afternoon visit from the young Gellman son, Noah, who is just as isolated upstairs in his home as Caroline is downstairs. A fragile, yet beautiful friendship has developed between Noah and Caroline since his mother's death. Noah's new stepmother Rose, unable to give Caroline a raise, tells Caroline that she may keep the money Noah leaves in his pockets. Caroline balks, and refuses to take money from a child - but her own children desperately need food, clothing and shoes...Does she or doesn't she?

Book and Lyrics by Tony Kushner
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Producer - Lanie Zipoy/The Gallery Players
Director - Jeremy Gold Kronenberg
Music Director - Nehemiah Luckett
Assistant Director - Allison Bressi
Choreographer - Micheal Rice
Set Designer - Edward Morris
Costume Designer - Soule Golden
Lighting Designer - Mike Billings
Sound Designer - Jillian Walker
Production Stage Manager - AnDrew Cohen
*Assistant Stage Manager - Marina Steinberg

The Cast
Caroline Thibodeaux - Teisha Duncan
Noah Gellman - Daniel Henri Luttway
Rose Gellman - Eileen Tepper*
Stuart Gellman - Peter Gantenbein*
Emmie Thibodeaux - Elyse McKay Taylor*
Radio - Heather Davis, Lea S. Anderson & Nikki Stephenson*
Bus/Dryer - Frank Viveros*
Moon - Gisela Adisa*
Washing Machine - Victoria Lauture*
Dotty - Ellisha Marie Thomas
Grandma Gellman - Gael Schaefer*
Grandpa Gellman - John Weigand*
Mr. Stopnick - Bill Weeden*
Jackie Thibodeaux - Barrington Walters Jr.
Joe Thibodeaux - River Aguirre
*appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

The Gallery Players are located on 14th Street between 4th & 5th Avenues in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood. Groups of 10 or more can purchase tickets for $13 each. Regular priced tickets are $18. To purchase tickets, please click here.

For more information, please visit the Gallery Players' website here.

 

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