Suffs on Broadway - An Exciting Brown Club Event
A POST-SHOW CONVERSATION WITH LEAD PRODUCER JILL FURMAN '90
Following a sold-out, extended run at The Public Theater, “Suffs" arrived on Broadway this spring — and not a moment too soon. This “musically rich and dazzlingly entertaining musical" (Variety), boldly explores the victories and failures of a struggle for equality that’s far from over.
Thursday, May 16 at 7pm
Music Box Theatre
239 W 45th St
between 7th & 8th Avenues
Purchase can only be made by Brown Club members** and is limited to a total of 4 orchestra tickets or 2 mezzanine tickets.
SOLD OUT
Tickets will only be distributed by a Brown Club representative at the theatre from 6:15pm to 6:45pm. Please do NOT go to the box office and please arrive no later than 6:45pm.
It’s 1913 and the women’s movement is heating up in America, anchored by the suffragists — “Suffs,” as they call themselves — and their relentless pursuit of the right to vote. Reaching across and against generational, racial, and class divides, these brilliant, flawed women entertain and inspire us with the story of their hard-won victory in an ongoing fight.
Brown alum and Tony Award winner Jill Furman '90 (Hamilton, In the Heights, Freestyle Love Supreme) is one of the lead producers. The producing team also includes Hillary Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. Following the performance, Jill Furman will join us for post-show conversation and Q&A moderated by Brown Club board member Jeremy Handelman '77.
“‘Does what all of the best Broadway musicals do: It humanizes, empowers, entertains and moves an audience.”
- New York Daily News
Broadway is “joyfully singing songs of suffrage!”
- New York Times
“Ms. Taub’s rich and often rousing score and the terrific cast, all radiating vivid engagement in the history unfolding before us.”
- Wall Street Journal
“A full-throated musical call to action [but also] heart-tugging, vibrant and charming.” “Suffs has got my vote”
- TimeOut
** You are a member of the Brown Club in NY if you:
Paid to attend our Kickoff Event this past October.
OR
Paid the annual $30 membership fee within the past twelve months.
OR
Graduated from Brown in 2023 and signed up for free membership.
JILL FURMAN '90 (Producer) seeks to produce groundbreaking commercial work that surprises audiences. On Broadway, she has produced Suffs, Hamilton (Tony Award), In the Heights (Tony Award), Freestyle Love Supreme (Special Tony Award), Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Heiress, Seminar, West Side Story, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sly Fox, and Fortune’s Fool. On TV and Film, she executive produced Hamilton for Disney+ (Emmy Award) and In the Heights. She also produced Hulu’s We Are Freestyle Supreme, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020. In 2011, she received the Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing. Jill is a native New Yorker. She received a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia. She is on the Brown University Board of Directors, the President’s Advisory Council for the Arts at Brown, and the Board of the Lung Cancer Research Foundation.
Questions? Email: jh@brownnyc.org