Winner of the 2023 Richmond Theatre Community Circle Award for
"Best Original Work"
"Best Original Work"
The American Revolution -- a revolution with the purpose of offering freedom and equality. Yet it left half of the American population far from free or equal.
Set in the summer of 1800, GABRIEL is a musical tells the story of the largest planned slave revolution in American history. The revolution wuould seize the government of Virginia and bring freedom to "the other half" of Virginia's people.
Based on the true and little known Richmond story, GABRIEL portrays the state-wide insurrection led by a literate blacksmith enslaved on Thomas Prosser's plantation in Henrico. Never heard of Gabriel? That's because for far too long, his story has been Lost, Buried, and Forgotten.
The original production at Firehouse Theatre in Richmond Virginia in September / October 2022 was awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts, a grant that was one of only 17 of the NEA's musical theatre grants nationwide that year. All performances sold out.
ATLAS Partnership is moving "Gabriel" forward with productions starting in 2025, the United States Semiquincentennial. 1776 saw the birth of the United States, but it was also the year of Gabriel's birth and the birth of Thomas Henry Prosser, the man who enslaved Gabriel and scores of others.
Set in the summer of 1800, GABRIEL is a musical tells the story of the largest planned slave revolution in American history. The revolution wuould seize the government of Virginia and bring freedom to "the other half" of Virginia's people.
Based on the true and little known Richmond story, GABRIEL portrays the state-wide insurrection led by a literate blacksmith enslaved on Thomas Prosser's plantation in Henrico. Never heard of Gabriel? That's because for far too long, his story has been Lost, Buried, and Forgotten.
The original production at Firehouse Theatre in Richmond Virginia in September / October 2022 was awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts, a grant that was one of only 17 of the NEA's musical theatre grants nationwide that year. All performances sold out.
ATLAS Partnership is moving "Gabriel" forward with productions starting in 2025, the United States Semiquincentennial. 1776 saw the birth of the United States, but it was also the year of Gabriel's birth and the birth of Thomas Henry Prosser, the man who enslaved Gabriel and scores of others.
