Steve Martin & Edie Brickell's Bright Star to Release Broadway Cast Recording

Bright Star, the new Broadway musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, will release a cast recording. The Ghostlight Records album is scheduled to be available digitally on April 29 and in stores on May 27.

The musical is currently in previews at the Cort Theatre, where it opens officially on March 24. Carmen Cusack, A.J. Shively and Paul Alxander Nolan star.

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

In addition to Shively and Cusack, the cast includes Michael Mulheren, Stephen Bogardus, Dee Hoty, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Hannah Elless, Stephen Lee Anderson and Emily Padgett.