Beautiful and daring story of the strong relationship between two women, one White and the other Black.

DESSA ROSE, perhaps Ahrens and Flaherty”s most ambitious musical to date, is almost entirely sung through. The score and its extended musical themes reveal the rarely told story of the strong-willed American women from whom our country derives much of its strength, character, and identity. The authors have structured DESSA ROSE as an oral history being passed down from Dessa Rose and Ruth to their children and grandchildren.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• We Are Descended
• Comin” Down the Quarters
• Ol” Banjar
• Oh Slavery Didn”t Do Away
• Something of My Own
• Watch You StepMr. Nehemiah
• Ink
• Hey…Hey…
• You Had No Call to Break That
• Why You Kill Him
• The Gold Band
• See Them Stars
• Little Stars
• HeyPretty Girl
• The Gold Band (reprise)
• Ladies
• Bertie”s Waltz
• At the Glen
• Good AfternoonOdessa
• Observations On the Famed Devil Woman
• Capture the Girl
• Janet? Phillip?
• The People On Her Place
• Miss We Was Only
• Fly Away
• That”s the First Time
• I”m SorryMaster
• Fly Away (conclusion)
• Dessa Rose Escapes
• Terrible
• Mmm…Hmm
• Obstinate Little Fool
• Their Eyes Are ClearBlue Like Sky
• This Baby Don”t Need No Name
• Twelve Children

Disc 2:

• Noah”s Dove
• Through Talking to Nathan
• Why Y”all Call Her Devil Woman?
• It Was Then I Knew
• Fly Away (reprise)
• AhLook Here!
• The Scheme
• Nathan Thinks We Might Could
• Why Miz Ruth
• In the Bend of My Arm
• Miz…Nathan! Nathan…
• Better If I Died
• Ten Petticoats
• We Organized to Go
• Just Over the Line
• Now Things Was Going
• A Pleasure
• ThatMr Oscar Is…
• Not If You Tongue Gets Loose…
• I Understood
• White MilkRed Blood
• They Tell You About the Gloried South
• AnnaI Swear You Are As Slow As Molasses…
• It Was Just Like Her
• MasterMaster
• S”caped
• I Don”t Want Your Money Child
• SheriffThis Girl Ain”t Got…
• SheriffI Got…
• MasterMaster…
• MistrissI…
• Epilogue: We Are Descended
• Over the Line

Additional Details

Label: JAY Records

Genre: Musical/Broadway

Run Time: 123 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 12/13/05

UPC: 605288139222