EXCLUSIVE: The critically acclaimed, Nashville-set Off Broadway musical Music City, featuring the music of multi-platinum hit songwriter J.T. Harding, has found a new home weeks after plans to begin performances at a custom-renovated Times Square area venue were dashed days before performances were to begin.
Gabrielle Palitz tells Deadline that Music City now will begin performances on Monday, June 15, at St. Luke’s Theatre, also in the Times Square/midtown theater district, with an opening night set for Wednesday, June 24.
Set in the fictional Nashville honky-tonk The Wicked Tickle, Music City features original and existing songs by Harding, including hits recorded by such artists as Uncle Kracker (“Smile”), Keith Urban (“Somewhere In My Car”) and Blake Shelton (“Sangria”). Harding has also written hits for Darius Rucker, Dierks Bently and Florida Georgia Line.
The musical originally opened in a small performance space on the second floor of
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