The Bridge is a new musical based on the true story of the woman who secretly engineered the Brooklyn Bridge. When her husband falls mysteriously ill and is unable to continue as Chief Engineer, Emily Roebling took up the reins of the most ambitious project of the age, half a century before women were allowed to vote. Set in the fractured wake of the American Civil War, the musical explores the forces that unite and divide us–across lines of gender, race, nationality, and socioeconomic status. Beginning with Emily and expanding outward to the countless unrecognized individuals who contributed to the construction of this iconic work, The Bridge shines a light on those whose lives, loves, and labors have historically been left in the shadows, asking the central questions: What does progress really look like? And who actually drives it?