PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With The Bridges of Madison County Writer Marsha Norman
Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman, who last adapted Alice Walker's The Color Purple for the Broadway stage, returns this season with the new musical incarnation of another literary phenomenon, James Waller's 1992 romantic novel The Bridges of Madison County, which officially opens on Broadway Feb. 20 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.