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.