About the Show

The story of seven friends' relationships is told throughout the decades, using the music of Hoagy Carmichael.

Stardust Road is a new musical about how six friends were brought together by a single man, told fully through the music of Hoagy Carmichael.

The seven friends spin a tale of friendship and changing relationships over four decades in America: the early days of ragtime, jazz and blues; the romantic New York of the 1930’s; the hectic and unknowable years of the World War II era; and the post-war Golden Age of Hollywood—all while walking down Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust Road.

Critic Reviews (7)

"You can enjoy the soundtrack of a generation that has now mostly left us in 'Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust Road,' a lovely tribute to a gifted songwriter."
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Much of the time, the show provides the often-delightful shock of the unfamiliar: Conceived by Susan H. Schulman, Michael Lichtefeld, and Lawrence Yurman, with an assist from Carmichael's son, Hoagy Bix, it is a heaping selection of songs, not just the expected hits, that demonstrates the composer's staying power through several decades of pop music.
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"I'll heartily recommend 'Stardust Road' as a swell earful of Hoagy Carmichael, including at least two dozen listenable songs you probably don't know, beguilingly sung and abetted by a couple of delightful choreographic moments."
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"Hoagy Carmichael’s 'Stardust Road' goes far attesting to his greatness, though not far enough."
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Conceived by director Susan H. Schulman, choreographer Michael Lichtefeld and musical arranger Lawrence Yurman, and developed with Hoagy Bix Carmichael (Hoagy’s son), "Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust Road" succeeds not by showing the audience another “And Then I Wrote” compendium, but by allowing the endless riches of the Carmichael songwriting catalogue to say it with music. We are treated to five extended “parts” where we meet seven characters, all friends, as they traverse the decades from the 1920’s to the 1950’s, through every high point and every heartache.
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"The cast of seven, sings and swings and taps their hearts out, everyone getting their solo to shine, and all backed by a multi-talented six-piece band that flows effortlessly from song to song."
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"The York Theatre Company’s Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust Road, does not take us on a biographical journey. Instead, it tells the story of seven friends in five scenes spanning four decades."
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Cast and creative team

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