Shows · Violet
Violet
Opened 2014
116 performances
Musical, Modern
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 beautiful.
- Music
- Jeanine Tesori
- Lyrics
- Brian Crawley
- Book
- Brian Crawley
Productions2 on Broadway
Recordings 1 recording
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Violet matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
Violet is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and libretto by Brian Crawley based on the short story "The Ugliest Pilgrim" by Doris Betts. It tells the story of a young disfigured woman who embarks on a journey by bus from her farm in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, all the way to Tulsa, Oklahoma in order to be healed. The musical premiered Off-Broadway in 1997 and won the Drama Critics' Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award as Best Musical.
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