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Goodspeed Musicals is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and advancement of musical theater and the creation of new works, located in East Haddam, Connecticut. Its landmark Goodspeed Opera House is a distinctive feature of the view from the Connecticut River and is the birthplace of some of the world's most famous musicals ...
The Norma Terris Theatre was built as a knitting needle factory in the early 1900s for Susan Bates, Inc. In 1982, after locating to a larger facility, Susan Bates, Inc. donated its abandoned factory in Chester, Connecticut to Goodspeed Musicals. A 200-seat performing space, it opened on July 10, 1984 with the new musical Harrigan ’N Hart. [2]
The musical premiered from 21 October 2010 to 21 November 2010 at Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, Connecticut. [3] The musical itself was quite different from its source material, but honored it. Staged by Goodspeed Musicals , the cast featured young actors Ellis Gage and Justin Lawrence Hall playing James, [ 3 ] Steve Rosen as Marvo The ...
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Michael P. Price (born August 5, 1938) is the longest serving artistic director of a professional theatre in the United States. [1] As the Executive Director of Goodspeed Musicals from 1968 to 2014, he produced more than 235 musicals, including 75 world premiers and transferred 19 productions to Broadway, including the world premieres of Shenandoah, [2] Man of La Mancha [3] and Annie. [2]
Gillette was born in Nook Farm, [5] Hartford, Connecticut, a literary and intellectual center with residents such as Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charles Dudley Warner. [ 6 ] Gillette's father, Francis , had been a United States Senator and a crusader for public education, temperance, the abolition of slavery, and women's suffrage. [ 7 ]