The incredible journey of a musical from potential disaster to success, and the Broadway industry that managed to stay alive during the pandemic shutdown of 2020-2022. Despite historic, seemingly insurmountable setbacks of four openings, Bob Dylan's musical Girl from the North Country has become an enormous critical and commercial Broadway hit. Hailed as an experience “as close as mortals come to heaven on earth,” by The New York Times, the musical weaves two dozen songs from the legendary catalogue of Bob Dylan into a story of Duluth during the Great Depression to create a true future American classic. Slow Train Coming is a book about pressing on in the face of extreme adversity. This behind-the-scenes oral history follows the show from its beginnings at New York’s Public Theater where it emerged as an underdog-of-a-show, through a fraught jump to Broadway against a backdrop of the emerging Covid-19 pandemic and longest shutdown in Broadway history which resulted in the theatre industry's subsequent fight for survival. Told through personal stories, anecdotes from the cast, production shots, behind-the-scenes photos, and insights from the creators, the book is both an inside look at a perilous moment one of America’s proudest institutions, Broadway, and a true story of American grit and determination lived by the company of this quirky musical-that-could.

Book Information
ISBN 9781350407381
Author Todd Almond
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC