Ring of Fire, the musical revue based on songs made popular by Johnny Cash, didn't fare well on Broadway, but what would you expect? Many New Yorkers – and New York critics – don't know or care much about country-music legends.

It's amazing, though, how much the rest of the country still cares about Mr. Cash nearly five years after his death. Of course, the success of the Oscar-nominated 2005 movie Walk the Line fanned the fans' flames and brought the image of the Man in Black into clearer focus for those who hadn't paid him that much attention during his lifetime.

Ring of Fire spent 21/2 months on the Great White Way at the peak of the movie's fame. You could dismiss it as a cynical way of, er, cashing in on the Cash phenomenon, except that co-creator Richard Maltby Jr. is the most thoughtful and most successful deviser of musical revues since Florenz Ziegfeld. His Ain't Misbehavin' and Fosse are classics of the genre.

In any case, when Dallas Summer Musicals brings Ring of Fire to town, it will give audiences a chance to hear live performances of 38 of the tunes most closely associated with Mr. Cash. They range from the most beloved ("Folsom Prison Blues") to the downright obscure ("Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog"), so there should be something for just about everybody.

Opens Tuesday and runs through May 25

at Fair Park Music Hall. Performances Tuesdays through Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m., Sundays at

2 p.m. Additional performances May 18

at 8 p.m., May 22 at 2 p.m. Ticketmaster.

{TriRight} $11 to $71.