Mexodus, running through Sunday, August 2, at the Pasadena Playhouse, superbly performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, depicts an often hidden chapter of the Underground Railroad – “of the thousands of enslaved people who sought freedom not by heading north, but by crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico.

Between 1829, when Mexico abolished slavery, and 1865, historians estimate that 4,000 to 10,000 people made that journey south, according to the production’s creative team.” It is a musical production to experience – as the most decorated new musical of the Off-Broadway season.