Caroline, or Change, Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s groundbreaking through-sung musical, was inspired by real events in Kushner’s youth. Like Noah Gellman, the play’s young protagonist, Kushner grew up Jewish in Lake Charles, Louisiana with an African-American maid. Kushner is quick to note, however, that Caroline, or Change is not an autobiography, but, instead, that “some of it is memory; some of it is misremembered. [It is] a mis-memory play.”
Caroline, or Change was conceived in 1998, when the San Francisco Opera commissioned Kushner to compose a libretto about the civil rights
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