Violet
Shows · Violet
In 1964, Violet Karl, a young woman with a disfiguring facial scar from a childhood accident, takes a Greyhound bus from her North Carolina farm to Tulsa, Oklahoma, believing a televangelist can heal her. Along the journey through the segregated South, she forms connections with two soldiers — one Black, one white — and gradually discovers that true healing comes not from miracles but from learning to see herself as…
- Opened
- 2014
- Performances
- 116
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions2 on Broadway
| 1944 | Belasco Theatre Original. October 24, 1944 · predates this show | 23 performances |
| 2014 | Revival Theatre unknown. · Leigh Silverman | 116 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Violet matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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19 passages naming Violet, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
She also wrote the off-Broadway musical Violet (1998). Tesori’s music matches the characters and situations for which she writes, whether it is the classic musical comedy style of Thoroughly Modern Millie or the nearly sung-through post-Sondheim approach of Caroline, or Change. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p385
Tesori, perhaps the most wide-ranging musician of the five, followed her Off Broadway debut, Violet, with three different kinds of Broadway productions: a musical comedy, Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002), a musical drama for which Tony Kushner wrote the book and lyrics, Caroline, or Change, and an animated movical, Shre… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p717
1997: How | Learned to Drive, Skylight (F), Violet (M), Chicago - Broadway revival (SC) book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p433
Miss Broadway (Violet Carson). They all had their silver cups to show their ratings, so you knew the calibre of beauties was exceptionally high. book:revue-a-nostalgic-reprise-of-the-great-broadway-period-baral-robert-author-1st-e#p165
1997: How I Learned to Drive, Violet 1998: (tie) Gross Indecency and The Beauty Queen of Leenane; no musical award 1999: Wit no musical award 2000: Dinner With Friends, James Joyce's The Dead 2001: Proof Bat Boy. The Musical 2002: Metamorphoses, Urinetown 2003: Take Me Out, Avenue Q 2004: Bug, Caroline or Change book:theatre-world-2009-2010-season-v-66-willis#p432
These kinds of representations contributed to the onstage exclusion of disabled actors for decades, even as non-disabled actors cripped up to play disabled characters. Various manifestations of disability and physical difference made meaning in performance in Broadway musical revivals after 2010, including The Color P… book:broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-2023#p224
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