Tony Award winning musical, The Bridges of Madison County, captivates TUTS audiences

Beautiful music, hailed as “one of Broadway’s best scores in the last decade” by Daily News, is at its finest in Theatre Under the Stars’ (TUTS) production of The Bridges of Madison County.

The stunning musical production of The Bridges of Madison County at TUTS, playing until January 31 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Sarofim Hall, features gorgeous, soulful music by Tony Award®-winning composer Jason Robert Brown, who was eager to create a full-bodied score with soaring lines and huge emotional range. 

TUTS’ presentation of The Bridges of Madison County captures the lyrical expanse of America’s heartland and gives audiences plenty of rich fare to feast on. Noted as one of the most romantic stories ever written, this two-time Tony Award winning Broadway musical is based on the book by the same name by Pulitzer Prize Winner Marsha Norman (The Secret Garden, The Color Purple) and direction by two-time Tony® winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza).

This musical follows the unforgettable story of two people caught between decision and desire as a chance encounter becomes a second chance at so much more.

It’s 1965 and Francesca Johnson, an Italian war bride in her late thirties living on a farm, encounters Robert, a National Geographic photographer, who has come to photograph the covered bridges of Madison County in Iowa. Through their meeting, her decision to stay with her husband, Bud and their two children could be in jeopardy as a possible new future hangs before her very eyes.

The Bridges of Madison County captured the 2014 Tony Award® Winner for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations – Jason Robert Brown and 2014 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music & Orchestrations – Jason Robert Brown.

Tickets, priced from $30 – $125, are available online at www.tuts.com or by phone at 713.558.TUTS.

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