After collaborating on two bluegrass albums, Steve Martin and singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, two celebrated Texas-born talents, decided to create a musical around the songs. The result is Bright Star, a tuneful display of American roots music, which has opened on Broadway at the Cort – one of several fiddle-driven musicals on New York stages this season. Its sweet score makes up for the preposterous if occasionally moving story into which the 19 (mostly newly written) original songs have been fitted.
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Carmen Cusack and Paul Alexander Nolan in Bright Star on Broadway.
Hannah Elless and A.J. Shively
Carmen Cusack in Bright Star
Bright Star with Carmen Cusack and Paul Alexander Nolan
The performers in a centerpiece of the set that doubles as a log cabin, a bandshell for the musicians, and a romantic gazebo
Bright Star creators Edie Brickell and Steve Martin
