Steve Martin has written a musical. Ok, so he did it with Edie Brickell. Still, I am again amazed at this man's breadth of creativity. I fell in love with his comedy years ago watching his stand-up routines and then his skits on SNL.
I fell in love with his movies. L.A. Story remains one of my MOST favorite movies with it's hilarious parody of southern California. Now that I live here, I get to witness it first-hand and I love the movie all the more.
I then got to fall in love with his forays into bluegrass. The man plays banjo, and I mean he plays it. Then I heard he'd written a musical with Edie Brickell. They produced an album together in 2013 and that somehow has led to them creating this musical, Bright Star.
This song is from that musical, having been assembled into an original Broadway cast recording. I love this video. Hannah Elless, who is in the Broadway production, is truly a one-woman band.
5/3/16 UPDATE: Bright Star received FIVE Tony nominations today, for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Original Score (the cast recording was just released last week), Best Actress for Carmen Cusak and Best Orchestrations for August Eriksmoen. – KPBS.org
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