‘Music City’ Off Broadway Musical Goes On Hiatus Days Before Opening Due To Legal Issues With Times Square “Honky Tonk” Venue

A planned transfer of the critically acclaimed Off Broadway musical Music City to a larger, custom-redesigned venue has been put on hold just days before the planned start of performances.

Music City, which features songs by multiplatinum country songwriter J.T. Harding, was set to move from its original home at a small performance space on the second floor of a historic church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and into a vacant Times Square-area building that once housed New York’s Playboy Club.

As Deadline exclusively revealed in January, the remodeled venue on West 42nd Street near 10th Avenue was being transformed into a fully functioning Nashville bar called the Wicked Tickle, the setting for a tale of two young singer-songwriters looking for their big break.

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