Bright Star
Cort Theatre
Previews Began: February 25, 2016
Opening Night: March 24, 2016
Closing Night: June 26, 2016
Music: Edie Brickell
Steve Martin
Lyrics: Edie Brickell
Book: Steve Martin
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.
Musical Numbers
ACT ONE
If You Knew My Story…………….Alice, Billy, Ensemble
She’s Gone…………………………………..Daddy Cane, Billy
Bright Star………………………………………Billy, Ensemble
Way Back in the Day………………………Alice, Ensemble
Whoa, Mama……………………….Jimmy, Alice, Ensemble
Firmer Hand/Do Right……………………Daddy Murphy,
Mama Murphy,
Alice, Ensemble
A Man’s Gotta Do……………………Mayor Dobbs, Jimmy
Bright Star Underscore……………………………Ensemble
Asheville………………………………………Margo, Ensemble
Picnic Dance………………………………….Stanford Adams
What Could Be Better…………Jimmy, Alice, Ensemble
I Can’t Wait, Pt.I…………………………….Alice, Ensemble
I Can’t Wait, Pt.II………………..Alice, Jimmy, Ensemble
Scene Change………………………………………….Ensemble
Please Don’t Take Him……………..Mayor Dobbs, Alice,
Daddy Murphy,
Mama Murphy,
Stanford Adams,
Ensemble
A Man’s Gotta Do (Reprise)………………..Mayor Dobbs,
Ensemble
ACT TWO
Entr’acte………………………………………………..Orchestra
Sun’s Gonna Shine………………….Alice, Mama Murphy,
Daddy Cane, Margo,
Ensemble
Heartbreaker………………………………………………..Jimmy
Another Round……………..Lucy, Daryl, Billy, Ensemble
I Had a Vision……………………………………..Jimmy, Alice
Always Will………………………….Billy, Margo, Ensemble
Sun’s Gonna Shine (Reprise)……………..Mama Murphy
I Can’t Wait (Reprise)………………………………Ensemble
So Familiar/At Long Last………………..Alice, Ensemble
Finale……………..Jimmy, Alice, Billy, Margo, Ensemble
Bows……………………………………………………….Ensemble
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Carmen Cusack Alice Murphy
Paul Alexander Nolan Jimmy Ray Dobbs
Stephen Lee Anderson Daddy Murphy
Jeff Blumenkrantz Daryl Ames
Stephen Bogardus Daddy Cane
Hannah Elless Margo Crawford
Dee Hoty Mama Murphy
Michael Mulheren Mayor Josiah Dobbs
Emily Padgett Lucy Grant
A.J. Shively Billy Cane
Allison Briner-Dardenne County Clerk
Ensemble
Max Chernin Max
Ensemble
Patrick Cummings Stationmaster
Ensemble
Sandra DeNise Edna
Ensemble
Michael X. Martin Dr. Norquist
Ensemble
Tony Roach Ensemble
Sarah Jane Shanks Florence
Ensemble
William Youmans Stanford Adams
Ensemble
Swings: Maddie Shea Baldwin, Richard Gatta, Lizzie Klemperer, William Michals
Understudies: Lucy Grant, Mama Murphy), Richard Gatta (Daryl Ames)