Bay Area Musicals announced the full cast and creative team for the Company’s first 2019 production, the Tony Award-nominated Violet. Inspired by the short story The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris Betts, the World Premiere 1997 Off-Broadway production of Violet won the Drama Critics’ Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, and the revised version that debuted on Broadway in 2014 was Tony Award-nominated.
Violet – The Musical is a powerful story told through show-stopping anthems ranging from American-roots to folk and gospel.
Violet – The Musical Cast
Featuring a folk/bluegrass/gospel-flavored score from Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by the acclaimed Brian Crawley, Violet has been astounding critics and audiences alike for over two decades.
Violet – The Musical(2019)
Production: Bay Area Musicals
Cast: Juliana Lustenader, Jon-David Randle, Jack O’Reilly, Miranda Long, Eric Nieman, Shay Oglesby-Smith,
When: February 16, 2019 – Sun., March 17, 2019
Where: Alcazar Theatre (650 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA 94103)
Running Times: One-hundred minutes, with no intermission.
Tickets: $35 – $65 and may be purchased online
Violet – The Musical Story
Violet – The Musical follows a scarred woman as she embarks on a cross-country bus trip to be healed by a minister and discovers the true meaning of beauty along the way.
As a girl, Violet was struck by a wayward axe blade when her father was chopping wood, leaving her with a visible scar across her face. With enough money finally saved she’s traveling across the Deep South in 1964 towards a miracle – the healing touch of a TV evangelist who will make her beautiful.
Her journey sets her on a different emotional path when she meets two men in the Army and a host of other characters. Collectively they force Violet to reckon with her haunted past and her unsettled present.
Although she may not succeed in having the scar on her face healed, Violet is able to repair those scars that are lying deeper than her skin.
Violet is ultimately a play about perception. How are we seen by others? What is beauty? How do we see ourselves?
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