After Sweeney Todd and Assassins, the Sondheim musical that Suffs reminds me of most is Company
Is It Worth It and If We Were Married are just the gender swapped version but set in 1916 instead of 2018
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After Sweeney Todd and Assassins, the Sondheim musical that Suffs reminds me of most is Company
Is It Worth It and If We Were Married are just the gender swapped version but set in 1916 instead of 2018
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So I grabbed a copy of Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens off gutenberg because I cried three times watching Suffs and thought it would be interesting to read the writer-character's real-life counterpart's account.
And I did not anticipate how funny this would be. She's absolutely skewering Wilson via footnoted citations to previous remarks. I'm only halfway in and I suspect it'll get a lot grimmer shortly but this is delightful.
Listening to Suffs and then to Assassins is so funny, Sondheim fit sooo many Sondheimisms into one act and Suffs keeps reminding me of Hamilton and Parade (both by huge Sondheim fans and have their own degree of deliberate Sondheimisms) but Suffs itself is relatively empty besides for the fact that literally no American musical is capable of being uninfluenced by Sondheim
Closest would be the two "we don't /really/ need these songs but the writer had too much fun writing them so they're uncuttable" songs, Great American Bitch and If We Were Married. Reminds me of Have A Little Priest and By The Sea in Sweeney. Also Ladies and Pretty Women from Sweeney could probably swap places and it would almost be unnoticeable in the rest of each show, but I think "male villain has a song about how much he loves women, which is really telling about what he thinks 'loving women' entails, in show where the main theme is 'sexism is bad'" precedes Sondheim. Iirc Mr Collins in P&P has his own rant about it altho he's not a villain at the level of Judge Turpin (or Sweeney) or Woodrow Wilson
"recreating historical documents in the show about that history" probably also precedes Sondheim but boy howdy it is constant in Assassins and used incredibly well in Suffs. Between Suffs, Assassins, and Hamilton, I think Suffs does it the best. LMM uses Your Obedient Servant as a final gasp of comedy before the finale, Guiteau's song and the voicemails are a game Sondheim is playing of how uncomfortable can he make the audience. And in Suffs we get a contrast between Dudley Malone and Wilson, and two of the funniest lines in the show
watching suffs. honestly even though i really like shaina taub this is better than i expected.
why does theatre reddit seem to be hellbent on the idea that shaina taub copied stuff from hamilton when writing suffs đ no she literally did not
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rory ⥠| she/they | let mother serve!
hi!! this is my side blog for the musical suffs & the real suffragists that inspired it! my main is @autisticlenaluthor â i also follow from there
currently hyperfixated on inez milholland & learning about the life she lived
i may or may not have made a sideblog so i can have a designated place to talk about suffragist history & suffs the musical ⌠@inez-milholland
rory!!! tell me about inez milholland!! đ
oh i would LOVE to!!
inez is most commonly known for leading the suffrage movements march down pennsylvania ave in 1913 on horseback. her reputation was for being âthe most beautiful *suffragetteâ & eventually, a martyr for the movement
but she is SO much more than just this (albeit absolutely iconic) moment and her death. so here are some of my favorite inez facts:
- sheâs originally from brooklyn!! but when she lived in greenwich village, she interrupted a presidential campaign parade by shouting out her window with a megaphone, demanding voting rights for women
- she went to vassar college and organized the Vassar Votes for Women Club. but the dean at the time didnât support womenâs suffrage (or teaching women on campus about politics) and so he forbid them from speaking about suffrage on campus. inez then started holding club meetings at a cemetery outside campus. they continued to find ways to protest on campus, and inez led them until she graduated!
- she applied to all the big ivy leagueâs for her masters, but was rejected because of her sex. so she went to NYU, passed the bar exam, and became for child labor & childrenâs rights attorney! inez was also arrested for picketing with female laundry/shirtwaist employees during the international ladies garments workers unions strikes in 1909-1910
- she also worked in producing a social/political magazine based in greenwich!
- AND (because she truly is suffragist barbie with 100 jobs) inez worked as a journalist in europa. she wrote about the progression of WWI but was unable to remain impartial. because of her campaign for pacifism, the italian government kicked her out of the country
- inezâs journalism career started after she married her husband. inez was the one to propose!
this one is not a favorite but it is important:
- inez died at 30, her last public words being âmr. president, how long must women wait for liberty?â her death led to the first ever picket at the white house in January, 1917. suffragists led by alice paul protested for over two years in all sorts of weather and despite over 500 arrests.
to finish, here is the iconic picture of inez on her horse!
*suffragist is the preferred term over suffragette. âsuffragistâ was coined by a journalist in 1906 to mock suffragists & belittle their activism
