THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY Begins Previews on Broadway Tonight

The Bridges of Madison County, the new musical by the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning team of Marsha Norman ('night Mother, The Color Purple) and Jason Robert Brown (The Last Fie Years, Parade) will begin performances tonight, January 17, 2014, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street).

Directed by Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza), The Bridges of Madison County stars four time Tony Award-nominee Kelli O'Hara (Nice Work If You Can Get It, The Light in the Piazza) and star of screen & stage Steven Pasquale (reasons to be pretty, "Rescue Me").The Bridges of Madison County will hold its opening night on February 20, 2014.

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 a stunning new musical by the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning team of Marsha Norman and Jason Robert Brown. O'Hara is joined onstage by Steven Pasquale ("Rescue Me", reasons to be pretty).

The Bridges of Madison County, based on the best selling novel by Robert James Waller, comes to Broadway after an acclaimed run at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Tickets can be purchased at the box office of the Gerald Schoenfeld theatre, by visitingTelecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200.

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