By Stacey Federoff

Four Carnegie Mellon University alumnae have helped bring the fight for the 19th Amendment — granting the right to vote to millions of women across the United States — to a Broadway stage.

“Suffs,” which opened April 18, tells the stories of some of the real-life suffragists who dedicated themselves to recognizing women’s enfranchisement, and the decades’ worth of work leading up to it.

The show is co-produced by former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, after a successful off-Broadway run last year.

“It’s up to the art of musical theater to give you the information in a way that lets it be human first and history underneath, so that the experience feels both enjoyable and entertaining but also there’s something that gets activated in you,” said director Leigh Silverman, who graduated from the School of Drama in 1996.