Sylvia: the suffragettes giving musicals a kick in the ballots
It sets history to hip-hop and has a diverse cast " but Sylvia is not riding on the coattails of Hamilton, says its director Kate Prince. Instead its heroine marches to a beat all her own When, in 1904, suffragettes Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney gatecrashed a Liberal party meeting in Manchester to protest their right to vote, they probably didn't do it to a hip-hop beat. But the scene playing out in a south L…