Photo Flash: First Look at SU Drama's VIOLET in the Storch Theatre

With book by Brian Crawley, music by Jeanine Tesori and lyrics by Brian Crawley, Violet is based on The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris Betts. SU Drama's production is directed by Rodney Hudson with musical direction by Brian Cimmet and choreography by Andrea Leigh Smith.

With an energetic, gospel, rock, country, and rhythm and blues score by Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, or Change), Violet was one of the most critically acclaimed off-Broadway shows of the '1990s. Set in 1964 in the South during the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, Violet follows the growth and enlightenment of a bitter young woman accidentally scarred by her father. Hoping that a TV evangelist can cure her, she embarks on a journey by bus from her sleepy North Carolina town to Oklahoma. Along the way, she meets a young black soldier who teaches her about beauty, love, courage and what it means to be an outsider.

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Carly Blane (as Violet) and Malcolm Yancey (as Flick)

Mia McClain

Christian Palmer (as Preacher)

Center: Malcolm Yancey (as Flick), Carly Blane (as Violet) and Danny Harris Kornfeld (as Monty)