The Sun Is Gonna Shine at PTC's "Bright Star"
Last night I had one of the best theatre experiences in my whole life - I saw Bright Star at Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City. Through a special arrangement with Center Theatre Group and the original Broadway production, Pioneer Theatre is the third city since the show left Broadway to be able to host the touring company. The same company that includes many members of the original Broadway cast and the INCREDIBLE Carmen Cusack. Bright Star (music, book & story by Steve Martin and music, lyrics & story by Edie Brickell) follows the story of Billy Cane as he's just returned home from WWII and "waiting for his life to begin." Billy heads to Asheville, North Carolina in hopes of becoming a published writer at The Asheville Southern Journal. This is where he meets Alice Murphy, a shrewd editor who, against normal protocol and because of a clever lie, agrees to take a look at Billy's stories. It's here that we begin to follow Alice's story to...