Violet

Contemporary Musical

Director: Carol Fischer

Vocal Director: Jacque Wilson Scharlach

Choreographer: Chris Scadina

Conductor: Troy Davis

Violet, the musical, has music by Jeanine Tesori and libretto by Brian Crawley. Based on the short story "The Ugliest Pilgrim" by Doris Betts, a young woman whose face is disfigured in an accident involving an axe when she was a girl, decides to journey by bus from North Carolina to Oklahoma to be healed by an evangelist she had seen on television. We meet a cross section of America’s people and southern culture in 1964 as she travels to seek healing. And we hear a cross-section of music from country to gospel to the blues as we learn along with Violet that physical healing is much less important than what a soul and heart experience. Tesori is known for being awarded a recent Tony for her music for Kimberly Akimbo on Broadway, as well as earlier awards for Shrek the Musical, Fun Home, and Caroline or Change, plus accomplishing film work on Shrek the Third, Mulan II, and others.

Dates: April 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 at 8:00 PM and April 21 & 28 at 2:00 PM

Suggested Donation: $20