The run closed August 10, 2014
- Opened
- 2014
- Closed
- August 10, 2014
- Performances
- 116
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 166th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Violet 1 more that season
| 1944 | Belasco Theatre Original | 23 perf. |
Who was in it11 named
Austin Lesch
Charlie Pollock
Emerson Steele
8 of these 11 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 3 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Leigh Silverman
- Choreographer
- Chase Brock
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
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.
- She also wrote the off-Broadway musical Violet (1998). Tesori’s music matches the characters and situations for which she writes, whether it is the classic musical comedy style of Thoroughly Modern Millie or the nearly sung-through post-Sondheim approach of Caroline, or Change. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 385
- Tesori, perhaps the most wide-ranging musician of the five, followed her Off Broadway debut, Violet, with three different kinds of Broadway productions: a musical comedy, Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002), a musical drama for which Tony Kushner wrote the book and lyrics, Caroline, or Change, and an animated movical, Shre… Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 717
- 1997: How | Learned to Drive, Skylight (F), Violet (M), Chicago - Broadway revival (SC) Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 433
- Miss Broadway (Violet Carson). They all had their silver cups to show their ratings, so you knew the calibre of beauties was exceptionally high. Revue A Nostalgic Reprise of the Great Broadway Period Baral Robert Author 1st E, p. 165
- 1997: How I Learned to Drive, Violet 1998: (tie) Gross Indecency and The Beauty Queen of Leenane; no musical award 1999: Wit no musical award 2000: Dinner With Friends, James Joyce's The Dead 2001: Proof Bat Boy. The Musical 2002: Metamorphoses, Urinetown 2003: Take Me Out, Avenue Q 2004: Bug, Caroline or Change Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 432
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Violet at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.