VIDEO: Watch THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM Band Turn Broadway Classics Into Bluegrass Tunes!

What do you get when you mix Broadway and Bluegrass? The band at Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM has a pretty good idea.

Says the group: "Formed out of the Robber Bridegroom stage band are bringing Bluegrass to Broadway, one song at a time. Each week we cover a song from a currently running Broadway musical, but with a heavy Bluegrass twang. We won't rest until every Broadway House has a number you can stomp your foot to."

Below, check out their renditions of "She Loves Me," "Matchmaker," and "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables."

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Meet the Band:

Matt Cusack: Currently making Roundabout debut in Robber Bridegroom. Broadway: One Man Two Guvnors, Regional: The Bandstand. National Tour: John Doyle's Sweeney Todd. MattCusack.com

Mike Rosengarten: Mike Rosengarten is an NYC based musician, actor and musical director. Since moving to New York, he has been involved in over 100 Broadway, Off-Broadway and other productions. He regularly performs with artists like Joe Iconis and Family, and Marissa Mulder. Mike is a Deering Banjos endorsed artist.

Douglas Waterbury-Tieman: Douglas Waterbury-Tieman is NYC based actor, fiddler and tap dancer from Lexington, KY. A graduate of Belmont University's Musical Theatre program he has been listening to and playing Bluegrass his whole life. Off Broadway: SeaWife, Regional: Flat Rock Playhouse, Actor's Theatre of Louisville. www.douglaswaterburytieman.com

Cody Owen Stine is a composer, lyricist, arranger, performer, and music director who writes for theater, film, and cabaret. He is making his Roundabout debut as conductor of The Robber Bridegroom. Other conducting/arranging/orchestrating credits include: Murder Ballad (MTC and off-Bway); For the Last Time (Theater Row); Eager to Lose (Ars Nova); Atomic (Theater Row); Music Associate for a new project by David Byrne (Public Theater, dir. Alex Timbers); and Arranger/Orchestrator for Jose Llana's Lincoln Center Songbook; as well as music direction of countless concerts with Broadway performers. As a composer/lyricist his work has been seen at Lincoln Center, Ars Nova, Prospect Theatre, Joe's Pub, Laurie Beechman, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 52nd Street Project, and Second City, LA, among others. He's a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and the resident Cabaret Director for the Williamstown Theatre Festival. www.CodyOwenStine.com

The first-ever New York revival of Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman's musical comedy THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM is currently playing at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street). This will be a limited engagement through May 29, 2016.

Wildly inventive and deliciously entertaining, THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM is a raucous, hilarious, sexy theatrical gem with an irresistibly catchy bluegrass score. Based on the short story by beloved Southern writer Eudora Welty, THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM transports the audience to the Natchez Trace in Mississippi, a dangerous and mysterious corner of the country teeming with a rogue's gallery of the most beguiling con men, hucksters, and charlatans you'll ever meet. Chief among them, Jamie Lockhart (Pasquale)-fair-faced gentleman by day, hard-hearted bandit of the woods by night. When he falls for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy planter, his world and code of ethics are turned upside down. A Southern-fried celebration of American myth-making as well as the art of making theatre, THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM is an irreverent, thrilling, jubilant musical comedy pulsing with life and imagination.