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Something I Said-Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change – The Magnificent Mammy

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Something I Said
Caroline, or Change
Dwight Hobbes
MN Spokesman-Recorder Archive So, this is how we the death of the 14-year-old Emmett Till, brutally beaten, one eye gouged out, honor, before he was shot through the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 70-pound cotton gin fan, his body bound with barbed wire – for the youthful mischief to whistle at white women. This is how we walk down the driveway to come the memory of activist Medgar Evers respect, shot in the back home to his wife and three children. This is how we four Birmingham, Alabama honor girls who although revered in the church, bombed in the next life by the Ku Klux Klan were. A generation fought for civil rights, fought like people are treated, refused, denied education and the right, with the brave and the innocent die to vote cruel death. It is the backdrop for some privileged playwright entertaining audiences with his replacement saga honored the Guthrie Theater, Caroline, change or, which in turn may Mammy entitled The Magnificent. Caroline Thibodeaux, a Southern Jewish family, the maid, is the protagonist in this plotless fluff by Tony Kushner (book and lyrics), which hardly supports the level of a contemporary coonshow. Right off the bat, singing as she washes and dries laundry in the basement is, of Caroline, of all things, accompanied by an animated, spirited singing washing machine, dryer (cloned from Teen Angel in Dream Girls) and radio. Bad enough, but the radio is represented by three women in comfortable, Pink, Shake-and-shimmy dress, rolling her hips jutting out her bottom – every time they meet a number. It is no surprise bit when we learn how to Caroline, his was a single mother. She had to get a divorce because – okay, everyone says – her husband, what else was drinking like a fish and beat it as it was Job's mule. The required, heart-warming cliche tractor comes with Caroline with family friends of the young son helps to secretly smoke a grade schooler and stood by as his Rock of Gibraltar. Of course, the next thing she is a decent black man of Nat King Cole daydreaming. This romanticized cliché look lowered the heart and soul, the maids and women wash up every day to work in the hands of crude held by their families (many of which actually contain husbands who raised never a hand to her if she drank or not). These mothers and wives deal with day in, day out drudgery were about much more than this script is the dilemma of whether Caroline got what was change in the scattered children's pockets left. It is a galling insult to the peak with our previously honorable heroine turning is petty enough to argue, where appropriate, a statement from the child's pants to give to him about it again and then go to the job in a self-righteous Huff, deprive their families of a living because of a spat with a small boy. Do not worry, but the ace up the sleeve Kushner is that, according to Caroline goes to church, we speculate that God intervened and her job back for her (there is no other way to explain the happy ending after ) end. Another slap in the face comes with the closure of the number smarmy bilge on subsequent generations of his "children Caroline Thibodeaux. The Ordway Center The Color Purple had this season, it was to have artistic director Joe Dowling Guthrie Theater step up with their own Lawd-you-sure-can-colored wash sing-production. (Acquit the white performers are excellent, too) In fact, they want to sing, a phenomenally talented cast do fine Janine Tesori's magnificent music justice. It's just a shame Kushner is there, palming of a smooth, bald face travesty as a tribute to an era of brave women who stood as a cornerstone in black communities during a difficult time.

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Twin Cities Daily Planet article with www.tcdailyplanet.net / profiles / Dwight Hobbes-archived. Dwight Hobbes has written for Essence, Reader's Digest, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, City Pages, MPLS / St. Paul, MN Law & Policy, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Women & Word, San Diego Union-Tribune, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (where he carries the comment column Something I Said). He has his mind on National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Blog Talk Radio is free and KMOJ spoken in Minneapolis and St. Paul. regular guest commentator on Newsnight Minnesota (KTCA-Minneapolis/St. Paul) and Spectator (Minneapolis Television Network) has been presented. His monthly column "Hobbes In The House" in MN Spokesman Recorder speaks on domestic violence and rape. His plays are Shelter – by Mixed Blood Theatre, University of Southern Illinois in Point of Revue, for Bedlam Theatre of the 10-Minute Play Festival selected and published by Playscripts, Inc. You Can produce – at Mixed Blood Theatre by Pangea World Theater, Dues produced 't Always Sometimes Never Tell – produced by Philadelphia Theater Center, Long Iceland University, reading at the Kennedy Center and published in the anthology Center Stage, in the middle – made by Long Iceland University, Samuel E. Wright. Hobbes spoke at the panel "Farewell to August Wilson" at the Guthrie Theater, on conversations with Al McFarlane (KFAI, KMOJ) broadcast. Singer-songwriter Dwight Hobbes recorded the single "Atlanta Children" (BeatBad Records) and gigged 10 years in the Long Iceland / NYC area, including the other side of Kenny's Castaways and My Father's Place. He confronted the Boston blues band Midlight. In Minneapolis, opened Hobbes to David Daniels at First Street Entry, James Curry at the Terminal Bar, sat with Yohannes Tona, Alicia Wiley Sol Testimony's Soul Jam, The New Congress Babalu, Willie Murphy at the Viking Bar and Wain McFarlane & Jahz at Lucille's Kitchen. Dwight Hobbes still drops the occasional open mic in town. www.myspace.com / dwighthobbesmusic

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Twin Cities Daily Planet article with www.tcdailyplanet.net / profiles / Dwight Hobbes-archived. Dwight Hobbes has written for Essence, Reader's Digest, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, City Pages, MPLS / St. Paul, MN Law & Policy, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Women & Word, San Diego Union-Tribune, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (where he carries the comment column Something I Said). He has his mind on National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Blog Talk Radio is free and KMOJ spoken in Minneapolis and St. Paul. regular guest commentator on Newsnight Minnesota (KTCA-Minneapolis/St. Paul) and Spectator (Minneapolis Television Network) has been presented. His monthly column "Hobbes In The House" in MN Spokesman Recorder speaks on domestic violence and rape. His plays are Shelter – by Mixed Blood Theatre, University of Southern Illinois in Point of Revue, for Bedlam Theatre of the 10-Minute Play Festival selected and published by Playscripts, Inc. You Can produce – at Mixed Blood Theatre by Pangea World Theater, Dues produced 't Always Sometimes Never Tell – of the Theater Center Philadelphia, Long Iceland University, reading at the Kennedy Center and published in the anthology Center Stage, in the middle produced – produced by Long Iceland University, Samuel E. Wright. Hobbes spoke at the panel "Farewell to August Wilson" at the Guthrie Theater, on conversations with Al McFarlane (KFAI, KMOJ) broadcast. Singer-songwriter Dwight Hobbes recorded the single "Atlanta Children" (BeatBad Records) and gigged 10 years in the Long Iceland / NYC area, including the other side of Kenny's Castaways and My Father's Place. He confronted the Boston blues band Midlight. In Minneapolis, opened Hobbes to David Daniels at First Street Entry, James Curry at the Terminal Bar, sat with Yohannes Tona, Alicia Wiley Sol Testimony's Soul Jam, The New Congress Babalu, Willie Murphy at the Viking Bar and Wain McFarlane & Jahz at Lucille's Kitchen. Dwight Hobbes still drops the occasional open mic in town. www.myspace.com / dwighthobbesmusic

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