Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster (Anything Goes, Thoroughly Modern Millie) returns to Roundabout in the highly anticipated Broadway debut of Violet, following the acclaimed concert performance at City Center Encores! Off-Center. Winner of the Drama Critics' Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical when it premiered Off-Broadway, Violet features music by Tony nominee Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, or Change, Fun Home) and book and lyrics by Brian Crawley (A Little Princess). Leigh Silverman (Chinglish, Well) directs.
If the time has come for Ms. Foster to take her place among the first rank of Broadway musical theater performers (fittingly in a season uncommonly rich in fine work from women), the moment also seems ripe for Violet, originally produced Off Broadway in 1997, to be acknowledged as an enduringly rewarding musical...But the musical concludes on a satisfying but not too sugary note of uplift. By shedding her illusions, at however painful a cost, Violet has also found a new kind of faith: a belief that her life's promise does not depend on divine intervention but the homelier comforts of human attachments.
As musicals go, the story couldn't be simpler. Yet the material couldn't be richer...As Violet travels from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Memphis to Tulsa, the music moves from warm, soul-stirring folk-the bulk and heart of the score-to smoky R&B and blues to full-throated gospel and back again. It's impossible not to get swept up by rousing numbers...And, more important, you'll have to imagine Violet's facial scar, the result of an ax blade swung accidentally by her father when she was a girl; Foster's face remains unblemished. Of course, from the start, you know she's on a fool's journey. But you'll never regret taking the ride.
1997 | Off-Broadway |
Original Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
2014 | Broadway |
Roundabout Production Broadway |
2019 | West End |
London Premiere at Charing Cross Theatre West End |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Sutton Foster |
2014 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Joshua Henry |
2014 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Sutton Foster |
2014 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Joshua Henry |
2014 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical | Violet |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Sutton Foster |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Joshua Henry |
2014 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | Violet |
2014 | Theatre World Awards | Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance | Emerson Steele |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Leigh Silverman |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Joshua Henry |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Sutton Foster |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Ted Shen |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Mary Jo Shen |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Elizabeth Armstrong |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Fran Weissler |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Barry Weissler |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | David Mirvish |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Daniel Palladino |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Sydney Beers |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Julia C. Levy |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Harold Wolpert |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Todd Haimes |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Roundabout Theatre Company |
2014 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Violet |
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