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Bright Star

Musical

Writers: Steve Martin Edie Brickell

Context

In 2013, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell collaborated on a bluegrass album called Love Has Come For You. One of the songs, “Sarah Jane and the Iron Mountain Baby� was based on a true event. In 1902, William Helms found a valise below the Iron Mountain and Southern Railway in St. Louis. Inside the valise was a baby, injured, but alive. Helms and his wife adopted the child, and the story inspired “The Ballad of the Iron Mountain Baby,� written by the Reverend J.T. Barton.

After the success of their album, Martin and Brickell wrote Bright Star, workshopped at Vassar College. In late 2014, the

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