Tickets for BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY Go On Sale Friday 3/18

Winner of the 2014 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations, The Bridges of Madison County makes its Nashville debut with a limited, one-week engagement at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Andrew Jackson Hall on May 10-15. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 18, at 10 a.m. at www.TPAC.org, by phone at (615) 782-4040, and at the TPAC Box Office, 505 Deaderick Street, in downtown Nashville. For group tickets, please call (615) 782-4060.

The critically-acclaimed musical of The Bridges of Madison County features one of Broadway's most accomplished creative teams with music and lyrics by three-time Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown (Parade, The Last Five Years), book by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Marsha Norman (The Secret Garden, The Color Purple, 'night, Mother), and direction by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific, The King and I, The Light in the Piazza), recreated by Tyne Rafaeli.

"The Bridges of Madison County is a beautiful, gripping love story, but audiences will find that it's not only love between a man and a woman. There is love of family, love of friendship, and love of community. Jason Robert Brown did an incredible job of capturing all the emotions of this show through music," said Kathleen O'Brien, TPAC President and CEO.

"TPAC invested in the Broadway production because we were so moved by the script and the music and wanted to ensure that it would play to many audiences. We are thrilled to have it on our stage in Nashville."

Based on the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County tells the story of Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson and her life-changing, four-day whirlwind romance with traveling photographer Robert Kincaid. It's an unforgettable story of two people caught between decision and desire, as a chance encounter becomes a second chance at so much more.

The team also includes scenic design by two-time Tony Award winner Michael Yeargan (The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific), costume design by six-time Tony Award winner Catherine Zuber (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza, The Coast of Utopia ), lighting design by two-time Tony Award winner Donald Holder (South Pacific, The Lion King), sound design by Jon Weston, arrangements and orchestrations by Jason Robert Brown, movement by Danny Mefford, and casting by Telsey + Company/Cesar Rocha, CSA.

Pictured: Andrew Samonsky (Robert) and Elizabeth Stanley (Francesca) in the national tour of The Bridges of Madison County. (Photo by Matthew Murphy)