Tom Wilson’s memoir-turned-musical brings ‘celebration of Indigenous identity’ to Hamilton stage – CBC

Apr 22, 2024

Beautiful Scars will run at Theatre Aquarius from April 24 to May 11

When Mohawk artist Tom Wilson was writing his best-selling memoir Beautiful Scars, he’d often read passages out loud to himself, to hear how they sounded “in the air.”

This week, Wilson will watch actors sing some of those same words to hundreds of people — as the musical inspired by his memoir, and of the same name, premiers at Hamilton’s Theatre Aquarius on April 24.

“Hearing them emoted from people who have been generous enough to give everything they’ve got to every word, man, that’s an emotional journey and one that I wasn’t expecting,” the homegrown music icon told CBC Hamilton.

• Hamilton artist Tom Wilson hopes new film will help put ‘Mohawk culture into the light where it belongs’

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