The director Bartlett Sher and the actress Kelli O'Hara, who collaborated previously on the Tony Award-winning revival of "South Pacific" and the musical "Light in the Piazza," will reunite for a developmental workshop in New York this month of their latest project, "The Bridges of Madison County," a musical adaptation of the best-selling novel and hit film.
But during a developmental workshop in the spring and then the rehearsals here, he said, he came to be impressed with the layers that Ms. Parks was adding to the characters.
Following a developmental workshop last year, the musical returns to the Vineyard for a fully staged production.
A developmental workshop earlier this year with a new director, Randal Myler ("It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues") and new musical director, Keith Levenson, led to this revamped production.
"Yank!," a musical that gained a following during its 2010 Off Broadway run, in part because of its provocative love story between World War II servicemen, has lead actors in place for a four-week developmental workshop this fall that might be a prelude to a Broadway production.
They did consent to a closed-door developmental workshop of their "Carrie" revisions in New York in 2009, but they began mulling an out-of-town run when the workshop's backers, the Broadway producers Jeffrey Seller and Kevin McCollum, chose not to continue with the project.
One of the lead producers, Scott Zeiger, said in an interview that the show's developmental workshop in October — intended to lay the groundwork for Broadway — was marred by Hurricane Sandy, and that fewer investors signed on afterward than he had hoped.
Mr. Kazee was in Nashville in early 2011, doing publicity for his single-season show "Working Class" on CMT when Mr. Carnahan asked him to do a three-day developmental workshop, where "Once" first came into being.
In a statement posted on the company's Facebook page, Ashley said he welcomed the feedback, since the show is a part of the playhouse's developmental workshop series, Page to Stage.
He commissioned Ms. Hagedorn to write the play and has shepherded it from its 1998 world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse in California, where he was artistic director at the time, through a series of developmental workshops to a full production at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, where it opens tonight.
