Bright Star Tickets

Carmen Cusack played Nellie Forbush in the 1^st National Tour of the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific and made her Broadway debut in 2016 in Steve Martin’s musical, Bright Star, for which she received the Theatre World Award as well as Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League award nominations. She also appeared as Sally Adams in City Center Encores! recent production of Call Me Madam and Lynn Gardner in MCC’s Off-Broadway revival of Carrie. Her West End credits include Fantine in Les Misérables, Rose in The Secret Garden (Royal Shakespeare Company), Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (The Venue) and Kim in Personals (Apollo Theatre). She has toured the UK as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera and Eva Cassidy in Over the Rainbow. Her additional North American tour credits include Annie McDougan in First Wives Club (James M. Nederlander Theatre, Chicago), Dot in Sunday in the Park with George (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) and Elphaba in the 1^st National Tour of Wicked (also Melbourne, Australia).

A.J. Shively has been seen on Broadway in Bright Star (Drama Desk Nomination); La Cage aux Folles. National Tour: Bright Star; The Sound of Music. Off Broadway/New York: February House (The Public); Brigadoon (Irish Rep); The Suitcase Under the Bed (Mint); Unlock’d (Prospect); A Contemporary American’s Guide to a Successful Marriage (Cherry Lane); Things To Ruin (Second Stage); Little Airplanes of the Heart(Ensemble Studio Theatre); ReWrite (Urban Stages); NYMF; Fringe NYC. Regional: Berkeley Rep.; Kennedy Center; Old Globe; CTG; McCarter; Pioneer; CenterStage; TUTS; George Street Playhouse; Long Wharf; TheatreWorks - Silicon Valley. TV/Film: Hunters; Homeland, Madam Secretary; The Blacklist; Younger; The Daily Show; Nobody Walks In LA; From Nowhere; Syrup; HairBrained. Training: University of Michigan; RADA.

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Paul Alexander Nolan’s role as August in Water for Elephants will mark his 10th Broadway show. Most recently, he played prosecutor Hugh Dorsey in the 2023 Tony-winning revival of Parade. In 2021, he reprised his role as Jim in the most Tony-nominated play in history, Slave Play, and toured with that production to the Mark Taper Forum in LA. Other Broadway roles include Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, Guy in Once, Jimmy Ray in Bright Star (Drama Desk nomination), Pasha/Strelnikov in Doctor Zhivago (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Billy Flynn in Chicago, and Tully in Escape to Margaritaville. Off Broadway: Original casts of Daddy Long Legs and Slave Play. Recent regional: Life After at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and Ahrens and Flaherty’s new musical, Knoxville, at Asolo Rep, directed by the late Frank Galati. Paul can be heard on 6 original cast albums. TV credits include The Code, Madam Secretary and Instinct for CBS.

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Bogardus is best known for his Tony-nominated performance as the stuttering Gregory Mitchell in Love! Valour! Compassion!, a role he recreated on film.

Hoty, a three-time Tony nominee, is best known for her work in Will Rogers' Follies and City of Angels.

Emily Padgett made her Broadway debut in the 2007 revival of Grease, and has also appeared in Legally Blonde. Padgett plays wide-eyed L.A. newcomer Sherrie opposite Dan Domenech in the ‘80s jukebox musical Rock of Ages.

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