Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher (Golden Boy, South Pacific , The Light in the Piazza ) helmed the musical that had a score by Tony winner Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Songs for a New World ) and a book by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman (The Secret Garden , 'Night Mother ). Previews began Jan. 17.
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Star-Studded Audience Celebrates Pre-Opening of The Bridges of Madison County; Red Carpet Arrivals and Curtain Call
Star-Studded Audience Celebrates Pre-Opening of The Bridges of Madison County; Red Carpet Arrivals and Curtain Call
Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale star in The Bridges of Madison County , which officially opens Feb. 20 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. A star-studded audience was on hand to celebrate with the cast the previous night, Feb. 19. Read the Playbill.com story.
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Caitlin Kinnunen and Derek Klena
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Whitney Bashor
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Cass Morgan and Michael X. Martin
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Hunter Foster
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Steven Pasquale and Kelli O'Hara
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Kelli O'Hara
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Cass Morgan, Steven Pasquale, Kelli O'Hara and Hunter Foster
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Whitney Bashor, Cass Morgan and Steven Pasquale
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Cass Morgan, Steven Pasquale and Jason Robert Brown
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Cass Morgan, Steven Pasquale and Jason Robert Brown
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Jason Robert Brown, Marsha Norman, Steven Pasquale, Tom Murray, Hunter Foster and Bartlett Sher
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Tom Murray, Hunter Foster, Bartlett Sher and Michael X. Martin
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Whitney Bashor, Jason Robert Brown, Cass Morgan, Marsha Norman and Steven Pasquale
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Bartlett Sher and author Robert James Waller
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Robert James Waller and cast
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Robert James Waller and cast
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Robert James Waller and cast
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Robert James Waller and cast
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Bartlett Sher, Michael X. Martin, Robert James Waller, Derek Klena and Kelli O'Hara
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Michael X. Martin, Robert James Waller, Derek Klena and Kelli O'Hara
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Hunter Foster and Bartlett Sher
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Sutton Foster
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Brooke Shields
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Jonathan Groff
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Gina Belafonte and guest
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Jeffrey Richards and Stacey Mindich
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Kyle Riabko
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Bartlett Sher
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Bartlett Sher, Stacey Mindich and Jeffrey Richards
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Andre Bishop
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Bartlett Sher and Andre Bishop
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Robert James Waller
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Hunter Bell and Susan Blackwell
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Georgia Stitt and Jason Robert Brown
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Vanessa Nadal and Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Vanessa Nadal and Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Richard LaGravenese and guest
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Norm Lewis
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Elena Shaddow
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Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
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Julia Murney and Jen Cody
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Tom Cavanagh
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Christian Hebel and Rachael Harris
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Elizabeth Ashley
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Sherie Rene Scott
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Lindsay Mendez
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Debra Monk and her goddaughter
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John Augustine and Christopher Durang
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David Hyde Pierce and guest
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Tamara Tunie
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Raul Esparza
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Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub
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Marsha Norman
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Marsha Norman
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Scott Landis and Kathleen Marshall
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Tony Award nominee O'Hara (The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific, Nice Work If You Can Get It ) and Pasquale (Reasons to Be Pretty , Far From Heaven , "Rescue Me") ledthe cast as Italian-American housewife Francesca Johnson and National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid, respectively.
The romantic musical centers on a brief, four-day love affair between a National Geographic photographer and an Italian-American housewife in 1965 Iowa. Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep starred in the 1995 film adaptation.