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'Caroline, Or Change' Lyicist Tony Kushner

Cover for the original Broadway cast recording of the musical <i>Caroline, or Change</i>. (Hollywood Records 2004)
Cover for the original Broadway cast recording of the musical Caroline, or Change. (Hollywood Records 2004)

The Tavis Smiley Show producer Roy Hurst talks with multiple award-winning playwright Tony Kushner about his new musical Caroline, or Change. Kushner, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his play cycle Angels in America, wrote the book and lyrics to the musical, based in large part on his childhood growing up in Lake Charles, La.

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