Courtesy of The Shubert Organization

Courtesy of The Shubert OrganizationGirl from the North Country, a stage musical featuring reimagined versions of Bob Dylan songs which premiered in the U.K. in 2017, will open on Broadway early next year.

The show, which was written and will be directed by Irish playwright Conor McPherson, will begin preview performances on February 7, before having its official opening on March 5.

The production is set in 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota, the city where Dylan was born, and focuses on a group of characters in a guesthouse who are struggling to get by during the Great Depression.

The production opened at London’s Old Vic Theater in 2017, then moved to the U.K. capital’s West End. An Off Broadway production was staged in New York in 2018, and a Canadian production will run at Toronto’s Royal Alexandra Theater from September 28 to November 24.

Previous productions of the musical have featured about 20 Dylan compositions spanning most of his career, including the title song, as well as “I Want You,” “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Make You Feel My Love,” “Hurricane” and “Forever Young.”

McPherson tells The New York Times that he’s revised the show four or five times, and “every time I’ve done it, I’ve managed to slip another song in.”

According to the Times, Dylan himself gave the playwright free rein to use selections from his song catalog to create the musical.

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