Featuring a score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Bright Star 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.
Featuring a score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Bright Star 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.
"Magical. Romantic. Pure. I loved it. You'll love it!"
New York Post
Cindy Adams
"Downright wonderful!"
Newsday
Linda Winer
"'Bright Star' brings a fresh breeze to the spring theater season. Carmen Cusack makes a simply gorgeous Broadway debut. Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's songs give a heady lift to this romantic tale of lives torn apart and made whole again. It's not just the unusual flavor of its beautifully played music that makes 'Bright Star' something of an outlier on Broadway. Among its pleasures is the shear yarniness of the yarn that unspools, so I'll leave the rest to be discovered by audiences."
The New York Times
Charles Isherwood