Tags: Musical.
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.