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playbill.com wrote:


The new musical that was a sensation when it played a discreet and well-reviewed test run at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theatre in fall 2005

takes for its marquee the title of one of the hit tunes of American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. But the musical conceived by William

Meade and created and directed by Richard Maltby Jr., drawing on a cache of Cash songs, is not a biography of The Man in Black. (Unlike

the current feature film, "Walk the Line," which recounts a section of Cash's experience.)

In 38 musical numbers, a mosaic of American experience is pieced together in Ring of Fire, the creators say. There's a scene about

keeping the love fires burning in middle age ("While I've Got It On My Mind"), there's a scene with generations of a family sharing a

meal (and sharing music) in "Daddy Sang Bass," there's the second-act opener about life travels ("I've Been Everywhere") with no less

than 14 guitars in a line, played by the 6 actors and 8 musicians who make up the company.

"It's not a concert at all," Tony Award-winning director Maltby (Ain't Misbehavin', Fosse) told Playbill.com. "[Producer] Jim Freydberg

wants the tag to be 'ask anyone who's seen it,' because in a way, you can't describe what it is. It's a book musical without a book — a

play made up of songs."

At the center of the show are six principals paired off to make three couples: young, middle-aged and older, played by Beth Malone and

Tony Award-winner Jarrod Emick, Grammy Award-winner Lari White and Jeb Brown, and Jason Edwards and Cass Morgan.

The Cash lyrics conjure life experiences that are then applied to the characters.

"It's not abstract, it's very specific," Maltby explained. "But it's variable: The couples progress through life. If you know Johnny

Cash's story you can see the contours of his biography in the show. But it's not only his story. A lot of people have said to me that

they saw their own life in the show, which I think is true, too."

What is Ring of Fire "about"?

Maltby said, "It's about home and family and getting together and loving somebody and having a backyard and generations living together,

it's about what holds you together in the face of a hard life, it's about the really basic family values.