The story of the Underground Railroad that ran north may be well-known—the network of safe houses and transport routes slaves took to freedom in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

The musical Mexodus (Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre, booking to Oct. 18) tells the far less-well known story of the Underground Railroad that ran in the opposite direction, running south to Mexico, and the number of slaves who crossed the perilous Rio Grande.

Created and performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, and directed by David Mendizábal, Mexodus is an inventive, technically impressive spectacle, both loudly propulsive and low-key meditative.

Mexodus focuses on the friendship between Henry, an escaped slave from Texas, and Carlos, a poor and inexperienced Mexican tenant farmer, who finds Henry a

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