Millburn

She based this rousing Western, now playing at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J., on her great-great-aunts.

The show — the latest in a long string of adaptations of this widely read story — had a pre-Broadway run last fall at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J., where it opened to mixed reviews.

Beverly is the interim principal of the enviably resourced Millburn High School, located in picturesque suburban Millburn.

And Tazel took on the role of Denitra, whose guise as a successful corporate attorney to prevent anyone from suspecting that she doesn’t reside in Millburn is soon exposed.

Michael, a proud Millburn resident who grew up in Newark and is full of racist rancor over what happened to the city after the 1967 riots, takes his job seriously to the point of fanaticism.