Book and lyrics by Angelica Chéri — a descendant of the sisters who grew up hearing family stories that varied from one relative to another — with music by Ross Baum and direction by Tony nominee Stevie Walker-Webb. Set in Texas in 1893, it follows twin sisters Mary and Martha Clarke, on the run, passing for white and straddling a dangerous line between two Americas. The evening runs two hours and fifteen minutes, with one intermission.
Our reviewer Matt L. gave it a 7.8, under the headline "A Voice for Everything, a Book That Keeps Undoing Itself" — which tells you something honest: the score and the two leads, Solea Pfeiffer and Liisi LaFontaine, along with Grammy winner Ledisi as their mother Tallulah, carry considerable power. The structural tensions are real, and worth knowing going in.
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Texas, 1893 — Twin sisters Mary and Martha Clarke are on the run. As Black women who pass for white and hide in plain sight, they straddle a dangerous line between two Americas. But as powerful forces close in to keep their family from claiming a future of their own, Mary and Martha are driven to desperate measures to save their mother and their family’s legacy. When survival demands they do the unthinkable, the sisters nevertheless fight for self-determination, dignity, and the inheritance they have long been denied. A soulful and dangerous new Broadway musical inspired by a long-held family story, WANTED is the epic tale of how Mary and Martha went from farm girls to outlaws to legends.
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