Fresh from Broadway, the national tour of the musical Suffs is in San Diego through Sunday at the Civic Theatre, giving smart, humanizing and entertaining insight into women’s fight for the right to vote.

It kicks off Broadway San Diego’s 48th season with an intimate look at the people who made up the women’s suffrage movement, who called themselves suffs, not the condescending suffragettes, for short.

The tour has been embraced by the San Diego community. Cast members were given a tour of the Women’s Museum of California, inside Balboa Park’s San Diego History Center, where they learned about California’s suffrage movement.

The state passed voting rights for women in 1911, nine years before the 19th amendment was ratified by the nation in 1920. The show takes place in the intervening y

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