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Violet is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and libretto by Brian Crawley. It tells the story...

Violet is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and libretto by Brian Crawley. 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. It opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on March 11, 1997, and closed April 6, 1997. Directed by Susan H. Schulman with choreography by Kathleen Marshall, the cast featured Lauren Ward as Violet, Michael McElroy as Flick and Michael Park as Monty. Other cast members included Stephen Lee Anderson, Amanda Posner and Robert Westenberg. It won the Drama Critics' Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award as Best Musical. 13 year old Violet Karl sings ("Water in the Well") while her father is chopping wood. The shim of his axe blade suddenly comes loose and hits his daughter across the face, leaving a deep gash which runs from her nose all the way down her left cheek. The 25 year old Violet, terribly scarred from her injury, is at a Greyhound bus station, boarding the bus ("Surprised"). Her destination is a televangelist in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that she has been watching on television for years. Being a strong believer in God, she