NewsViolet Gets Cut: Retooled, One-Act Adaptation of Musical, Starring Sutton Foster, Will Play BroadwayThe Broadway production of Violet, Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley's musical about a disfigured young woman on a cross-country journey seeking transformation through faith, will feature the retooled one-act adaptation presented at City Centers Encores! Off-Center in July 2013, according to Variety.com.
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Carey Purcell
December 20, 2013
Sutton Foster in Violet.
Photo by Joan Marcus
Violet, which features music by Tesori and book and lyrics by Crawley, is based on Doris Betts' story about a disfigured woman's journey to visit a faith healer she hopes will make her beautiful. The musical was first produced at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons in 1997 and received a one-night concert presentation this past summer in the inaugural season of Encores! Off-Center, which is dedicated to revisiting Off-Broadway productions. Tesori serves as the artistic director for the City Center series.
In an interview with Variety, Tesori spoke of the show's resonance to present-day audiences, saying, "Back in the '90s, there weren't things like Botox, not in the way there is today. Now there's this concept that you can 'fix' beauty, and it really resonates with the piece."
Violet is just one of Tesori's current works in progress; the musical Fun Home, co-written by book writer-lyricist Lisa Kron and based on Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir about a lesbian cartoonist re-examining her life, is currently playing a much-extended run at the Public Theater. Additionally, her new all-ages opera, The Lion, the Unicorn and Me, began its world-premiere run at D.C.'s Washington National Opera Dec. 14 and continues through Dec. 22.
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PHOTO RECAP: "Bring Me to Light!" Sutton Foster Stars as Violet at City Center; Curtain Call and Cast Party
PHOTO RECAP: "Bring Me to Light!" Sutton Foster Stars as Violet at City Center; Curtain Call and Cast Party
Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s Violet, the second Encores! Off-Center presentation of the 2013 season, was offered July 17 at New York City Center. Read the Playbill.com story.
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The choir
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Emerson Steele, Sutton Foster and Joshua Henry
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Emerson Steele, Sutton Foster, Joshua Henry, Chris Sullivan and Van Hughes
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Christopher Sieber, Rema Webb, Emerson Steele, Sutton Foster, Joshua Henry, Chris Sullivan and Van Hughes
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Christopher Sieber, Rema Webb, Emerson Steele, Sutton Foster, Joshua Henry and Chris Sullivan
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
