Dessa Rose (Musical) Ahrens and Flaherty Fuzz Roark, with J Purnell Hargrove Mandee Ferrier Roberts, musical direction Mar 23 - Apr 22, 2018 Dessa Rose is a remarkably engaging piece of musical theatre which charts the life of two women from the mid 1800s to the early 1920s in America, mostly the South. Dessa Rose is born as a slave but by the time she is sixteen she has had a child, been sentenced to death and gone on the run. Her story is intermixed with that of Ruth, a white woman born into