Texas Woman's University will stage the university premiere of *The Suffragist*, a new musical about the American campaign for women's voting rights, in three performances later this month.
The show runs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, and Friday, Oct. 23, and at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, in Margo Jones Performance Hall, a ground-floor venue inside the TWU Music Building at 305 Pioneer Circle.
Tickets listed by the university's music division are $20 for general admission, $10 for TWU alumni and $5 for seniors, with free admission for students and children under 12. For the weeknight shows, campus lots and permit-only streets can be used without charge after 6 p.m., the Denton Record-Chronicle notes.
The story on stage
The musical follows Alice Paul, the suffragist who organized the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession and later led the "silent sentinels" who picketed the White House. TWU senior Hannah Rhodes, a vocal performance major, sings the role.
The cast also includes Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Inez Milholland, Ida B. Wells and a tap-dancing President Woodrow Wilson, played by Jerred Quirk, the Record-Chronicle reported.
Composer Nancy Hill Cobb, a former music faculty member and associate provost at the University of Northern Iowa, wrote the show with playwright Cavan Hallman. She told the newspaper the idea took hold at a 2015 luncheon where a colleague who studies women's rights rhetoric described the movement's history, including the jailing and force-feeding of activists.
