Steve Martin & Edie Brickell's Bright Star, Starring Carmen Cusack, Sets Broadway Closing Date

Bluegrass is departing Broadway. Despite receiving a 2016 Best Musical Tony nod, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's Bright Star has been struggling with low grosses for some time and is set to shutter on June 26. At time of closing, the Carmen Cusack-led new musical will have played 30 previews and 109 regular performances at the Cort Theatre. Directed by Walter Bobbie, the production officially opened on March 24.

Bright Star, which features music by Martin and Brickell, lyrics by Brickell and a book by Martin, is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and travels between 1945 and 1923. Billy Cane, a young soldier just home from World War II, meets Alice Murphy, the brilliant editor of a southern literary journal. Together they discover a powerful secret that alters their lives.

The cast also includes A.J. Shively, Michael Mulheren, Stephen Bogardus, Dee Hoty, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Paul Alexander Nolan, Hannah Elless, Stephen Lee Anderson and Emily Padgett.

The tuner previously played a limited engagement at San Diego’s Old Globe in 2014 and also ran at D.C.’s Kennedy Center late last year.

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