See Bernadette Peters, Ben Platt & More Celebrate the Opening Night of Girl From the North Country

Like a rolling stone, Girl From the North Country sped toward its Broadway opening on March 5 at the Belasco Theatre. The new musical by Bob Dylan and Conor McPherson is about the down-on-their-luck denizens of a boarding house in Depression-era Minnesota. The show's ensemble cast includes Mare Winningham, Austin Scott, Marc Kudisch, Jeannette Bayardelle and Colton Ryan. The musical is about community so fittingly, the Broadway community showed up to celebrate it, including Bernadette Peters, Ben Platt, Mary-Louise Parker and more.

After the performance, the cast gathered at the Bryant Park Grill to celebrate the new musical. "Getting to dig into Bob Dylan's lyrics, as an actor, is just a dream come true," said Scott, "'Cause it's so rich and it resonates so deep with emotions and feelings. It's incredible."

For many in the cast, the slice-of-life narrative of Girl From the North Country raises more questions than it answers, and that's the point; they want audiences to discuss it afterwards. "I want people to just feel like, 'You know what, this is a story about survival. This is real life,'" said Bayardelle. "And sometimes things may get you down and you deal with situations, but there's always a light at the end of the tunnel. And you have to press on. Press on, that's one of Bob Dylan's songs, 'Pressing On.'"

Watch the cast express their excitement for the new musical, and see photos from the pre-show red carpet and curtain call below.