Премьера мюзикла Десса Роуз состоялась. Читаю отзывы, и заинтригован до крайности. Сюжет, музыка - все кажется интересным.
Вот вкраце про сюжет:
http://www.broadway.com/gen/show.aspx?SI=505475
А вот об истории создания мюзикла и его музыке:
http://www.playbill.com/features/article/91841.html
Особенно вот этот пассаж заинтересовал:
"Historically and musically, Dessa Rose is sort of a forerunner to Ragtime — only it's set in the Deep South. It's the first time I've gotten to really explore American roots music — blues, folk, different hymns, early kinds of gospel, the idea of call-and-response, which was a coded way the slaves communicated so that the white people thought they were just singing. Even though this is an American story, there are a lot of the African sounds — a lot of tribal drums — because these are people from an African culture that had been transplanted in America. It was interesting, finding a way to interface those primitive sounds with American sounds and turn them into a common musical language."