The run closed May 18, 2014
- Opened
- 2014
- Closed
- May 18, 2014
- Performances
- 137
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 135th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it15 named
Kelli O Hara
Ephie Aardema
Jennifer Allen
Katie Klaus
Luke Marinkovich
Aaron Ramey
Dan Sharkey
8 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters8 roles recorded
Kelli O'Hara Francesca Johnson
Andrew Samonsky Robert Kincaid
Hunter Foster Bud Johnson
Mary Callanan Marge
David Hess Charlie
Derek Klena Michael Johnson
Caitlin Houlahan Carolyn Johnson
Katie Klaus Marian
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Bartlett Sher
- Choreographer
- Danny Mefford
- Orchestrations
- Jason Robert
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
The Bridges of Madison County is a musical, based on Robert James Waller's 1992 novel, with a book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical premiered on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on February 20, 2014, and closed on May 18, 2014. The Broadway production was directed by Bartlett Sher and starred Kelli O'Hara as Francesca and Steven Pasquale as Robert. Brown's work on the musical won the 2014 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations after the Broadway production had already closed.
- Brown’s latest show is The Bridges of Madison County, which opened January 2014 to strong critical response. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 270
- But in The Bridges of Madison County and off-Broadway, in My Life with Albertine and Far From Heaven, O’Hara took on dense works of contemporary composers. Here S To the Ladies Conversations With More of the Great Eddie Shapiro Oxford U, p. 312
- But I also noticed there were press people filming it. It had all been planned as a press event, which didn’t diminish the joy, but I saw the pragmatic side of it. Here S To the Ladies Conversations With More of the Great Eddie Shapiro Oxford U, p. 321
- Subsequently Brown has also put out 13 (2007) and The Bridges of Madison County (2014), much admired by some. The Musical A Concise History Second Edition Ga Nzl Kurt Findlay Jamie 2 2022010, p. 472
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for The Bridges of Madison County at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.