Tuesday, November 5, 2013

'Bridges' Begins B'Way Previews On January 17

Producers Jeffrey Richards, Stacey Mindich, and Jerry Frankel announced today that
The Bridges of Madison County, the new musical based on the best selling novel by Robert James Waller, will now begin preview performances on Friday, January 17, 2014 at the Gerald B. Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street). 
Previews were originally scheduled for Monday, January 13, 2014, but were changed to accommodate a later rehearsal date of Monday, December 9, 2013. The opening night will remain as originally scheduled, Thursday, February 27, 2014. 
Tickets can be purchased at Telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200.

For more information about The Bridges of Madison County and to sample the music visitwww.BridgesOfMadisonCountyMusical.com.

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Four-time Tony® Nominee Kelli O’Hara reunites with Bartlett Sher, the Tony-winning director of South Pacific and The Light In The Piazza, for The Bridges of Madison County, a sweeping new musical by the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning team of Marsha Norman and Jason Robert BrownSteven Pasquale, who most recently starred on Broadway in reasons to be pretty, co-stars with O’Hara.

The Bridges of Madison County comes to Broadway after an acclaimed run at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

“BRIDGES is a rich, balled-packed new musical
that reverberates with GORGEOUS SONGS.”
Bloomberg News
“YOU'LL FALL IN LOVE WITH BRIDGES. A LUSH, LOVELY, and immensely moving musical with SONGS THAT SOAR.
Hartford Courant

The lead producers of The Bridges of Madison County are Jeffrey Richards, Stacey Mindich, and Jerry Frankel. They will be joined by Gutterman Chernoff, Hunter Arnold, Ken Davenport, Carl Daikeler, Scott M. Delman, Aaron Priest, Red Mountain Theatre Company, Libby Adler Mages/Mari Stuart, Ciaola Productions, Remmel Dickinson, David Lancaster, Bellanca Smigel Rutter, with Warner Bros Theatre Ventures and The Shubert Organization.
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BIOS
Kelli O’Hara (Francesca Johnson) has unequivocally established herself as one of Broadway’s great leading ladies. She recently completed a run in Nice Work If You Can Get It for which she garnered her fourth Tony Award Nomination. Other Broadway credits include: South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk Nominations, OCC Nominations),Pajama Game (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC Nominations), The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk Nominations), Sweet Smell of SuccessFollies and Dracula. 
Kelli starred in the New York Philharmonic productions of Carousel & My Fair Lady, receiving critical acclaim for her portrayal of Julie Jordan and as Eliza Doolittle respectively. Kelli’s concerts span from Carnegie Hall to Capitol Hill and in between. She has performed three times at the Kennedy Honors and frequently appears on the Memorial Day and July 4th PBS live telecasts. 
Kelli’s voice can be heard on numerous cast recordings. Her second solo album, Always is currently available on Ghostlight Records. 

Steven Pasquale (Robert Kincaid) is best known for starring on the 7-season FX hit TV series “Rescue Me” as firefighter Sean Garritty.  He was also the star of NBC’s recent Jekyll and Hyde reboot “Do No Harm.”  A regular on the theater scene, he was recently seen in Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures at the Public Theater.  He starred on Broadway in Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty, as well as A Soldier's Play (Second Stage), Neil LaBute's off-Broadway hit, Fat Pig (MCC), the Ahrens/Flaherty/McNally musical A Man of No Importance (Lincoln Center, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Beautiful Child (Vineyard Theater), The Spitfire Grill (Playwrights Horizons), Spinning Into Butter (Lincoln Center), and Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party (MTC).  Pasquale also created the role of Fabrizio in Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas' Tony Award-winning The Light in the Piazza
Other television credits include “Up All Night”, "Over/Under" for USA (pilot), "Coma" for A&E, "Marry Me" opposite Lucy Liu, a recurring role on HBO's Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning drama "Six Feet Under" and Sofia Coppola's "Platinum." 
His debut solo album, Somethin' Like Love, was released in 2009 by the Grammy-nominated record label PS Classics.
Bartlett Sher (Director) is Resident Director of Lincoln Center Theater, where he has directed Golden Boy by Clifford Odets (Tony Nomination), Blood and Gifts by J.T. Rogers, the new musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek, August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony Award nomination), Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific (2008 Tony Award, South Pacific went on to Australia where it was the most successful show in the history of the Sydney Opera House), Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets (Tony Award nomination) and The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel (Tony Award nomination). He has directed operas for the Metropolitan Opera (L’Elisir d’Amore, Le Comte Ory, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Roméo et Juliette for Salzburg Festival in 2008) and Seattle Opera/New York City Opera (Mourning Becomes Electra, 2003-2004). From 2000-2010, Mr. Sher was Artistic Director of Seattle’s Intiman Theatre.

Jason Robert Brown 
(Music & Lyrics) is the composer and lyricist of ParadeThe Last Five Years13Songs for a New World, and Honeymoon In Vegas (opened recently  at Paper Mill Playhouse). He is the winner of the Tony Award (Parade), the Drama Desk Award (The Last Five YearsParade), and the Kleban Award. With Marsha Norman, he created The Trumpet of the Swan, which he conducted with the National Symphony Orchestra. He tours the world with his band The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, with whom he has also recorded a CD, "Wearing Someone Else's Clothes."

Marsha Norman
 (Book) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and co-chair of Playwriting at Juilliard. She won a Tony for The Secret Garden, and another nomination for The Color Purple. Her first play, Getting Out, received the John Gassner Playwriting Medallion, the Newsday Oppenheimer Award, and a citation from the American Critics Association. Other plays include The Laundromat, The Pool Hall, Loving Daniel Boone, Trudy Blue, and her newest play, Last Dance. Published collections of her works include Four Plays, Collected Works of Marsha Norman, Vol. 1, and a novel, The Fortune Teller. She is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a former advisory member of the Sewanee Writers Conference, and current vice president of The Dramatists Guild of America. She serves on the boards of the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Independent Committee for Arts Policy. 

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