UB: "VIOLET" 5/5-8/8/22

LIVE PERFORMANCES: May 5 - 7, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. May 7 – 8, 2022 at 2 p.m. UB CENTER FOR THE ARTS Drama Theatre $20 Adults | $10 Students/Seniors Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/search?radius=10&sort=relevance%2Cdesc&geoHash=dpxu&unit=miles&tab=events&q=Violet&daterange=all UB Theatre and Dance’s 2021-2022 season sponsors are Fox Run at Orchard Park and Lake Shore Savings Bank. We are grateful for their continued support. www.foxrunorchardpark.com | www.lakeshoresavings.com Violet is a musical about a young woman on a quest to right the wrongs of her past. Based on The Ugliest Pilgrim, by Doris Betts, the award-winning production travels from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to Tulsa Oklahoma in 1964. The music is by Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori, known for many successful shows, including: Caroline, Or Change, Fun Home, Shrek the Musical, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Book and lyrics are by Brian Crawley. Violet features a vibrant range of American roots and gospel music that depict the journeys of the soul, including the show-stopping inspirational song “Let It Sing.” Violet is directed and choreographed by award-winning Guest Artist Terry Berliner. Her work has been seen on and Off Broadway, in regional theatres and universities across the country. Twenty-five years after the original production of Violet at Off Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons-where Ms. Berliner served as assistant director-she is thrilled to create a whole new production for UB students and audience, inspired by her knowledge of the past, while shining a bright, glorious light on our collective future. The cast and designers are students from the Department of Theatre and Dance. Musical direction is by Alison d’Amato, clinical assistant professor and director of Music Theatre. The guest dramaturg for the production is Buffalo-based author and artist-filmmaker Annette Daniels Taylor, whose storytelling practice reminds audiences of forgotten histories.