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Album: Dessa Rose
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. We Are Descended
2)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Comin' Down The Quarters
3)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Ol' Banjar
4)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Oh, slavery didn't do away...
5)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Something Of My Own
6)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Watch your step, Mr. Nehemiah...
7)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Ink
8)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Hey Hey... Hey Hey...
9)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. You had no call to break that
10)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Why you kill him?...
11)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. The Gold Band
12)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. See them stars...
13)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Little Star
14)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Hey, pretty girl...
15)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. The Gold Band (Conclusion)
16)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Ladies
17)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Bertie's Waltz
18)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. At The Glen
19)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Good afternoon, Odessa...
20)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Observations on the famed devil Woman...
21)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Capture The Girl
22)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Janet? Philip?...
23)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. The people on her place...
24)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Miss. We Was Only
25)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Fly Away
26)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. That's the first time...
27)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. I'm sorry, Master...
28)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Fly Away (Conclusion) / How Long Will It Be?
29)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Dessa Rose Escapes Nehemiah
30)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Terrible
31)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Mmm... Hmm...
32)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Obstinate little fool...
33)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Their Eyes Are Clear. Blue Like Sky
34)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. This baby don't need no name
35)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Twelve Children
1)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Noah's Dove
2)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Through talking to Nathan...
3)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Why y'all call her Devil Woman?...
4)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. It was then I knew...
5)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Fly Away (Reprise)
6)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Ah, look here!...
7)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. The Scheme
8)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Nathan thinks we might could...
9)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Why Miz Ruth...
10)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. In The Bend Of My Arm
11)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Miz... Nathan! Nathan...
12)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Better If I Died
13)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Ten Petticoats
14)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. We organized to go...
15)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Just Over The Line
16)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Now things was going...
17)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. A Pleasure
18)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. That Mr. Oscar is...
19)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Not if your tongue gets loose...
20)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. I understood...
21)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. White Milk And Red Blood
22)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. They tell you about...
23)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Anna, I swear you are as slow as molasses...
24)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. It was just like her...
25)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. Master, master...
26)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. S'caped...
27)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. I don't want your money, child...
28)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. Sheriff, this gal ain't got...
29)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. Sheriff, I got...
30)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. No. No! Look here...
31)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. Mistress, I...
32)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Epilogue. We Are Descended
33)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Just Over The Line - Instrumental (Exit Music)

Album: Dessa Rose
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. We Are Descended
2)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Comin' Down The Quarters
3)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Ol' Banjar
4)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Oh, slavery didn't do away...
5)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Something Of My Own
6)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Watch your step, Mr. Nehemiah...
7)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Ink
8)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Hey Hey... Hey Hey...
9)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. You had no call to break that
10)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Why you kill him?...
11)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. The Gold Band
12)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. See them stars...
13)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Little Star
14)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Hey, pretty girl...
15)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. The Gold Band (Conclusion)
16)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Ladies
17)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Bertie's Waltz
18)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. At The Glen
19)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Good afternoon, Odessa...
20)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Observations on the famed devil Woman...
21)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Capture The Girl
22)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Janet? Philip?...
23)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. The people on her place...
24)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Miss. We Was Only
25)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Fly Away
26)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. That's the first time...
27)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. I'm sorry, Master...
28)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Fly Away (Conclusion) / How Long Will It Be?
29)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Dessa Rose Escapes Nehemiah
30)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Terrible
31)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Mmm... Hmm...
32)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. Obstinate little fool...
33)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Their Eyes Are Clear. Blue Like Sky
34)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Scene. This baby don't need no name
35)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 1. Twelve Children
1)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Noah's Dove
2)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Through talking to Nathan...
3)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Why y'all call her Devil Woman?...
4)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. It was then I knew...
5)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Fly Away (Reprise)
6)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Ah, look here!...
7)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. The Scheme
8)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Nathan thinks we might could...
9)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Why Miz Ruth...
10)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. In The Bend Of My Arm
11)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Miz... Nathan! Nathan...
12)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Better If I Died
13)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Ten Petticoats
14)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. We organized to go...
15)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Just Over The Line
16)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Now things was going...
17)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. A Pleasure
18)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. That Mr. Oscar is...
19)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Not if your tongue gets loose...
20)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. I understood...
21)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. White Milk And Red Blood
22)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. They tell you about...
23)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. Anna, I swear you are as slow as molasses...
24)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Scene. It was just like her...
25)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. Master, master...
26)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. S'caped...
27)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. I don't want your money, child...
28)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. Sheriff, this gal ain't got...
29)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. Sheriff, I got...
30)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. No. No! Look here...
31)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Scene. Mistress, I...
32)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Epilogue. We Are Descended
33)	Dessa Rose, musical: Act 2. Final Sequence. Just Over The Line - Instrumental (Exit Music)

Performer Notes

Lyricist: Lynn Ahrens.
Personnel: William Parry, Rebecca Eichenberger, Rachel York, James Stovall, Norm Lewis, Tina Fabrique, David Hess (vocals).
Liner Note Author: Ira Weitzman.
Recording information: Clinton Recording Studios, NY.
Actors: William Parry; Rachel York; James Stovall; Norm Lewis; Tina Fabrique; David Hess .
Editor: Sophie Marchant.
Photographer: Joan Marcus.
Lyricist/librettist Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty's musical Dessa Rose is in some ways reminiscent of their stage adaptation of Ragtime in that it tells interweaving stories of black and white Americans and their confrontation with racism. Nominally speaking, Ragtime was the larger scale work, encompassing a huge cast, playing in a Broadway theater, and also taking on the immigrant experience in America. But Dessa Rose, which opened at the off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in New York's Lincoln Center on March 21, 2005, and ran through May 29, is described by annotator Ira Weitzman as a "folk opera," the term originally coined for Porgy and Bess, and this two-hour, full-length recording of the show, dialogue included, reveals that its artistic goals are at least as lofty as those of Ragtime. In her 1986 novel, Sherley Anne Williams created a fictional story combining the lives of two real-life women living in the South during the mid-19th century, a pregnant slave girl who incited a slave rebellion and a white woman, left alone on a plantation by her profligate husband, who harbored runaway slaves. Ahrens' adaptation finds both women, in old age, retelling their story, such that leads LaChanze, as Dessa Rose, and Rachel York, as Ruth, are forced to change back and forth from their old to their young selves, sometimes in the same scene. The story is heavily melodramatic, as the saintly African-American characters and the white woman who joins them struggle against the monstrous white men who enslave them, torture them, and try to rape them. The plot strains credulity at times, but it is less important than that, by the end, the bond of sisterhood overcomes barriers of race and jealousy. Flaherty's music naturally makes much use of 19th century American popular styles, from folk songs to society waltzes, with a heavy debt to Stephen Foster. The cast is talented and enthusiastic, lending a degree of authenticity to a work that otherwise might come across as contrived. ~ William Ruhlmann