Tickets on Sale for B’way Premiere of Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s New Musical “Bright Star”
Contact:
Rick Miramontez / Andy Snyder / Michael Jorgensen
rick@oandmco.com / andy@oandmco.com / michael@oandmco.com
212-695-7400
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
TICKETS NOW ON SALE
FOR THE BROADWAY PREMIERE OF
STEVE MARTIN AND EDIE BRICKELL’S
NEW MUSICAL
“ B R I G H T S T A R ”
DIRECTED BY WALTER BOBBIE
PERFORMANCES BEGIN AT
THE CORT THEATRE
STARTING
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25
OPENING NIGHT NOW SET FOR
THURSDAY, MARCH 24
New York, NY (November 16, 2015) – Producer Joey Parnes announced today that tickets are now on sale for Broadway premiere of the new musical Bright Star from Grammy® and Emmy® winner Steve Martin and Grammy®-winning singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, directed by Tony Award® winner Walter Bobbie. Previews begin at Broadway’s Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street) on Thursday, February 25, 2016, with an official opening night set for Thursday, March 24, following a limited engagement at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater in Washington, D.C. from December 2, 2015 through January 10, 2016, with an official opening night on December 17.
Tickets can be purchased by visiting Telecharge.com or by calling 800-447-7400. For groups of 10 or more, call 1-800-BROADWAY, ext. 2. For more info, visit www.BrightStarMusical.com
As previously announced, Carmen Cusack will make her Broadway debut as Alice, a role she originated in Bright Star’s world premiere production, and will be joined by co-stars Paul Alexander Nolan, Tony Award® nominee Michael Mulheren, A.J. Shively, Hannah Elless, Tony Award® nominee Stephen Bogardus, three-time Tony Award® nominee Dee Hoty, Stephen Lee Anderson, Emily Padgett, Tony Award® nominee Jeff Blumenkrantz, along with Maddie Shea Baldwin, Allison Briner-Dardenne, Max Chernin, Patrick Cummings, Sandra DeNise, Richard Gatta, Lizzie Klemperer, Michael X. Martin, William Michals, Tony Roach, Sarah Jane Shanks and William Youmans.
Inspired by an astonishing true event, the wholly original new musical Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and 40s. When successful literary editor Alice Murphy (Cusack) meets an ambitious young soldier (A.J. Shively) just home from World War II, their connection inspires Alice to confront a shocking incident from her past. Together they discover a long-buried secret with the power to transform their lives.
With music and book by Steve Martin and music and lyrics by Edie Brickell, Bright Star is based on an original story by Martin and Brickell and features direction by Walter Bobbie, choreography by Josh Rhodes, scenic design by Eugene Lee, costume design by Jane Greenwood, lighting design by Japhy Weideman, sound design by Nevin Steinberg, hair and wig design by Tom Watson, musical supervision by Peter Asher, musical direction and vocal arrangements by Rob Berman, orchestrations by August Eriksmoen, and casting by Howie Cherpakov. Bright Star was developed and had its world premiere at The Old Globe in San Diego (Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director; Michael G. Murphy, Managing Director).
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