Overview
Character Name
Joice Heth
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Elderly
Role Size
Supporting
Dancing
Dancer
Voice
Mezzo-Soprano, Alto
Vocal Technique
Jazz, Legit
Time & Place
Bridgeport, Connecticut, New York City, United States, 1870s, 1880s
Analysis
Based on a real person, and billed as the “Oldest Woman Alive,” Joice Heth is first introduced as a little hobbled woman at a small piano. Her manager, Chester Lyman, sells her contract to P.T. Barnum--when Barnum realizes that no one will pay to see an old woman at a
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