From the outside, the Goodmans are the very picture of a normal middle-class family living in the middle of America. But under the serene surface are fault lines that will soon shake their carefully curated self-image. With an emotionally wrenching contemporary rock score, this Pulitzer Prize-winning musical exposes the sabotaging power of the American dream and the liberation that may be possible when—if —we choose to wake up.

Mary Seacole, a Jamaican-British businesswoman and pioneering nurse practitioner, heroically provided desperately needed medical care to British soldiers during the Crimean War. Using Seacole’s acclaimed autobiography as a starting point, playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury brings forth from the abyss of history a chorus of “Marys” to tell of the unseen, uncelebrated labor of care provided by mothers and daughters, nannies, and nurses across centuries.