Tickets on Sale for THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY at Kravis Center This Spring

One of the most romantic stories ever written, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY won the 2014 Tony Awards® for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations. The musical adaptation of the best-selling novel and popular film will play at The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts April 26 - May 1. Tickets are on sale now.

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 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.

Featuring gorgeous, soulful music that draws upon the rich textures of Americana and folk and the sweeping balladry of classic Broadway, Joe Dziemianowicz of the New York Daily News hails it as "...one of Broadway's best scores in the last decade." Tom Geier of Entertainment Weekly exclaims that Brown "... has written a lush and deeply romantic score, filled with rich and melodic duets," and NPR proclaims it's, "MAGIC! An evening you will cherish long after the show is over!"

Based on 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 Original Broadway Cast Recording of THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, now available on Ghostlight Records, was released on April 15, 2014 and debuted as the #1 Cast Recording on the Billboard charts. For more information or to purchase the Cast Recording, please visit www.sh-k-boom.com/bridgesofmadisoncounty.

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY takes the stage Tuesday, April 26 at 8 pm, Wednesday, April 27 at 2 pm and 8 pm, Thursday, April 28 at 8 pm, Friday, April 29 at 8 pm, Saturday, April 30 at 2 pm and 8 pm and Sunday, May 1 at 2 pm. Tickets start at $27 and may be purchased at the Kravis Center Box Office located at 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach, on line at the official Kravis Center website www.kravis.org or by calling 561-832-7469. For Group Sales, please call561-651-4438 or 561-651-4304.

Beyond the Stage Musical Presentation: Please join us for a free pre-show musical performance by Plumosa School of the Arts Chorus Tuesday, April 26 at 7:15 pm in the Dreyfoos Hall lobby.

For more information, visit www.BridgesMusical.com.

BIOS:

MARSHA NORMAN (Book) won a Pulitzer Prize for her play 'night, Mother and a Tony Award for her book of The Secret Garden on Broadway. She also wrote the book for The Color Purple. Ms. Norman is co-chair of the Playwriting Department at Julliard and vice president of the Dramatists Guild of America. Her other plays include Getting Out, Traveler in the Dark, Sarah and Abraham, Trudy Blue, and Last Dance. Her published work includes Four Plays, Vol. I: Collected Plays of Marsha Norman and a novel, The Fortune Teller. She has numerous film and TV credits, Grammy and Emmy nominations and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She is a native of Kentucky who lives in New York City and Great Barrington with her two children.

JASON ROBERT BROWN (Music and Lyrics, Orchestrations) has won three Tony Awards for his groundbreaking work as a composer, lyricist and orchestrator. His emotionally incisive, ferociously energetic and deeply human scores for Honeymoon In Vegas, The Bridges of Madison County, Parade, The Last Five Years (now a feature film starring Anna Kendrick), 13 and Songs for a New World have brought his unique voice and highly personal songs to stages and cinemas all over the world. Jason also tours as a singer and pianist, and has recorded two solo albums: Wearing Someone Else's Clothes and Jason Robert Brown in Concert. www.jasonrobertbrown.com

BARTLETT SHER (Director) is Resident Director of Lincoln Center Theater, where he has directed The King and I, Golden Boy by Clifford Odets (Tony Nomination), Blood and Gifts by J.T. Rogers, the new musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek, August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Tony Award nomination), Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (2008 Tony Award, South Pacific went on to Australia where it was the most successful show in the history of the Sydney Opera House), Awake and Sing! by Clifford Odets (Tony Award nomination) and The Light in the Piazza by Greg Lucas and Adam Guettel (Tony Award nomination).

TYNE RAFAELI (Tour Direction). Recent directing credits include: Everything is Wonderful by Chelsea Marcantel (Juilliard); Oslo by JT Rogers (Playpenn), Pride & Prejudice (American Players Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Classic Stage Company), Wild Blue by Jen Silverman (Juilliard), The Happy Journey From Trenton to Camden by Thornton Wilder and Arabian Night by Roland Schimmelpfennig (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and The Poor Of New York by Dion Boucicault (The Connelly Theatre). Upcoming: Othello (Classic Stage Company); Loves Labours Lost (Great Lakes Shakespeare). As Associate Director to Bartlett Sher: Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway)The King and I (LCT), Women on the Verge (West End), The Bridges of Madison County (Broadway), Golden Boy (LCT/Broadway). Tyne was awarded the 2013/14 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Sir John Gielgud Fellowship for Classical Direction, and is a member of the Ars Nova Directing Troupe. M.F.A. in Directing from Columbia University.

The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is a not-for-profit performing arts center whose mission is to enhance the quality of life in Palm Beach County by presenting a diverse schedule of national and international artists and companies of the highest quality; by offering comprehensive arts education programs; by providing a Palm Beach County home in which local and regional arts organizations can showcase their work; and by providing economic catalyst and community leadership in West Palm Beach, supporting efforts to increase travel and tourism to Palm Beach County.