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Analyzing Names and Power in DESSA ROSE

By KatH on June 25, 2009

in Show/Author Spotlight |Tags: Show Spotlight

In the pre-Civil War musical Dessa Rose, songwriting team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Once On This Island, Ragtime, Seussical) tell the story of the unlikely friendship between escaped slave (and wanted murderer) Dessa Rose, and Ruth, a ...

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