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Last November, I saw a jukebox country musical titled Music City<\/em> at an off-Broadway church on the Upper East Side. The show had music by JT Harding, book by Peter Zinn and excellent direction by Eric Tucker, whose staging at off-Broadway\u2019s BEDLAM\u00a0Theatre has been impressing me for years. Choreography by John Heginbotham who staged the dances for the revival of Oklahoma!<\/em> and a great Nashville bar called \u201cWicked Tickle\u201d\u00a0by scenic designer Clifton Chadick completes the show.<\/p>\n Zinn\u2019s book is a simple story about two young Nashville singers and songwriters trying to make a career for themselves in the competitive country world.\u00a0 There seems to be nothing but heartbreak in\u00a0this world except when they sing.\u00a0 Harding\u2019s brilliant songs dominate the show.<\/p>\n You might know Harding\u2019s name since he had a following on music\u00a0streaming services. That\u2019s where I first heard his marvelous work.\u00a0 He was a co-writer of Uncle Kracker\u2019s \u201cSmile,\u201d\u00a0Blake Shelton\u2019s \u201cSangria\u201d and Keith Urban\u2019s \u201cSomewhere In My Car.\u201d All of these songs turn up\u00a0 in Music City<\/em>. I found out that the tunes all stayed in my head after the curtain had fallen.<\/p>\n Harding captures the heartbreak in every Nashville soul. Many of the Nashville nightclubs, like the Wicked Tickle, have open mics for the audience to sing into. In New York, if you have a ticket for Music City<\/em> and show up at their new theater, St. Luke\u2019s Theatre, at 308 West 46th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues), a half-hour beforehand, you can try out for the stage manager. If you are considered worthy, you get to sing your song while the audience is getting their seats.<\/p>\n Who knows \u2013 you might become a star! That happens in Nashville all the time.<\/p>\n For more information, visit musiccitythemusical.com.\n<\/p>\n Photo: Jeremy Daniel<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source canarsiecourier.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last November, I saw a jukebox country musical titled Music City at an off-Broadway church on the Upper East Side. The show had music by JT Harding, book by Peter Zinn and excellent direction by Eric Tucker, whose staging at off-Broadway\u2019s BEDLAM\u00a0Theatre has been impressing me for years. Choreography by John Heginbotham who staged the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2477382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2477381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Music-City-\u2013-A-New-Musical.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477383,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477381\/revisions\/2477383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}