It’s the same old story – (spoiler alert) boy meets girl, girl gets pregnant, someone throws the baby off a train.

I didn’t know going in that that last key element of Bright Star was based on the true story of the Iron Mountain Baby (though the other 99% of the play isn’t). I just knew that Steve Martin wrote the book of the play and that there would be bluegrass music by him and Edie Brickell.

I’ve seen Martin’s plays The Underpants and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. I haven’t see his Meteor Shower (or a real one for that matter), but it’s enough just to know that one critic wrote: “Meteor Shower plunges into the absurd without establishing a philosophical grounding for the mania. It’s sitcom Ionesco crossed with a Saturday Night Live parody of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.”

Following that train of thought (pun intended), I’ve seen Orson Welles’s Shadow, which is a play by Austin Pendleton about Welles directing Ionesco’s Rhinoceros. And Pendleton played in the 1989 Broadway revival of Grand Hotel, which is coincidental to the fact that three of the actors in Bright Star, the scene-stealing Rachel Whyte, Jennifer Ledesma, and Jeff Pierpoint, were in the version of Grand Hotel I saw last year at Theater Wit.

And Pierpoint, who plays Billy in Bright Star, was once the understudy for the character J. Pierrepont Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Marriott Lincolnshire Theater. Pierpoint, plays Pierrepont, a match made in theatrical heaven.

This was BoHo’s (Bohemian Theater Ensemble) first production at the Greenhouse Theater Center. I ate once at the BoHo (Bohemian House) restaurant in Chicago, and thankfully will never have to again, as it closed last year after four years of operation. Based on Bright Star, I have higher hopes for the theater company.