Music City
Last year, ever-inventive theater company Bedlam mounted an immersive staging of this original country jukebox musical built around songs by J.T. Harding, who has written hits for artists including Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney and Uncle Kracker. Directed by Bedlam honcho Eric Tucker, the show was enough of a success that it is reopening this spring in a new midtown location (on the site of the short-lived Playboy Club). Peter Zinn's script centers on a pair of songwriters—played in the last production by Stephen Michael Spencer and Casey Shuler—whose hardscrabble aspirations are obstructed in different ways by the drug epidemic and other challenges.