SUFFS Will Celebrate Women’s Equality Day and the Ratification of the 19th Amendment With Events [Video]

From August 18-26, Broadway’s two-time Tony Award winning musical Suffs will celebrate the 104th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, as well as Women’s Equality Day (August 26), through a series of activations in and outside of the Music Box Theatre.

The weeklong celebration will kick off at the August 18 matinee, commemorating the date that Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment when 24-year-old State Senator Harry Burn cast the deciding vote. Burn, a staunchly anti-suffrage legislator, was convinced to change his mind at the last minute due to an impassioned telegram from his mother, Phoebe Burn, asking him to vote yes. This letter is dramatized in a pivotal moment in Suffs, with Tony Award nominee Emily Skinner in the role of Phoebe Burn and Jenna Bainbridge in the role of Harry Burn.

In celebration of this historic date, the production has released on stage footage of Skinner performing “A Letter from Harry’s Mother,” which …