BWW Flashback: Steve Martin & Edie Brickell's BRIGHT STAR Shines in San Diego Before Broadway Bow

As BroadwayWorld reported yesterday, the complete cast and Broadway dates for the new musical BRIGHT STAR from Grammy and Emmy winner Steve Martin and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Edie Brickell.

Directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie, BRIGHT STAR will begin performances on Broadway on Monday, March 7, 2016 with an official opening night on Thursday, March 31 at a Shubert theatre to be announced, following a limited engagement at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater in Washington, D.C. from December 2, 2015 through January 10, 2016, with an official opening night on December 17.

Carmen Cusack will make her Broadway debut as Alice, a role she originated in BRIGHT STAR's world premiere production, and will be joined by co-stars Paul Alexander Nolan, Tony Award nominee Michael Mulheren, A.J. Shively, Hannah Elless, Tony Award nominee Stephen Bogardus, three-time Tony Award nominee Dee Hoty, Stephen Lee Anderson, Emily Padgett, Tony Award nominee Jeff Blumenkrantz, along with Maddie Shea Baldwin, Allison Briner, Max Chernin, Patrick Cummings, Sandra DeNise, Richard Gatta, Lizzie Klemperer, Michael X. Martin, William Michals, Tony Roach, Sarah Jane Shanks and William Youmans.

Inspired by a true event, the wholly original new musical BRIGHT STAR tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and 40s. When successful literary editor Alice Murphy (Carmen Cusack) meets an ambitious young soldier (A.J. Shively) just home from World War II, their connection inspires Alice to confront her past. Together they discover a stunning secret with the power to transform their lives.

To celebrate the big casting news, we're flashing back to the show's original run at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre. Check out highlights and photos of the cast in action below!

Photo Credit: Joan Marcus

Wayne Alan Wilcox as Jimmy Ray Dobbs and Carmen Cusack as Alice Murphy

A.J. Shively as Billy Cane and Carmen Cusack as Alice Murphy

(foreground) Carmen Cusack as Alice Murphy with (from left) Scott Wakefield and Joe Jung and the orchestra

Wayne Alan Wilcox as Jimmy Ray Dobbs and Carmen Cusack as Alice Murphy with the cast

The cast of the world premiere of BRIGHT STAR

Carmen Cusack as Alice Murphy

A.J. Shively as Billy Cane

Wayne Alan Wilcox as Jimmy Ray Dobbs

(foreground) Carmen Cusack as Alice Murphy and the cast

Kate Loprest as LuCy Grant, Jeff Hiller as Daryl Ames, and Carmen Cusack as Alice Murphy

Wayne Alan Wilcox as Jimmy Ray Dobbs and Carmen Cusack as Alice Murphy with the cast

A.J. Shively as Billy Cane and Stephen Bogardus as Daddy Cane

Stephen Lee Anderson as Daddy Murphy and Carmen Cusack as Alice Murphy

Wayne Duvall as Mayor Josiah Dobbs (right) and Joe Jung

Hannah Elless as Margo Crawford