Dessa Rose
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First performance | February 17, 2005 |
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Lyricist | Lynn Ahrens |
Characters | Adam Nehemiah |
Sheriff Hughes | |
Robert Steele | |
Playwrights | Lynn Ahrens |
Sherley Anne Williams | |
Composers | Lynn Ahrens |
Stephen Flaherty | |
Orchestrators | Christopher Jahnke |
William David Brohn | |
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ID | 2411880 |
About Dessa Rose
Dessa Rose is a musical based on the book by Sherley Anne Williams with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. It tells the story of a young black woman and a young white woman and their journey to acceptance in 1847 in the ante-bellum South, as they tell their story to their grandchildren.