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The Goodspeed Opera House expects to be back at full strength next season, with full productions of the lively musicals “Cabaret,” “Anne of Green Gables” and “42nd Street” on its stage.
Despite the name, it was not in fact an opera house, but rather a venue for presenting plays. Its first play, Charles II, opened on October 24, 1877. After William Goodspeed's death in 1882, the opera house fell into disrepair, facing a series of less glamorous uses—from a militia base during World War I to a general store and a Department of ...
2023 Goodspeed Opera House Summer Stock is a musical with a book by Cheri Steinkellner . The show includes many of the songs from the original 1950 film of the same name that starred Judy Garland and Gene Kelly , including Get Happy .
Sep. 22—Goodspeed Musicals has had great success with its outdoor concerts and shows — the theater's way of pivoting after the pandemic began. Now, though, what Goodspeed fans have been ...
Goodspeed Opera House – twice Tony award-winning theater, on Route 82 near the East Haddam Bridge. Music on the River - annual summer series of free concerts held on the Goodspeed Opera House green. [17] Scherer Library of Musical Theatre - at the Goodspeed Opera House; the only library dedicated solely to American musical theatre in the world.
Jun. 5—The lights dim, and the orchestra begins playing popping, plinking music with a hint of oom-pah about it. Down one of the theater aisles strides actor Jelani Remy, wearing a shiny faux ...
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]
In 1975, the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut revived the show to great acclaim, prompting the producers to transfer it to Broadway. After three previews, it opened on December 21, 1975 at the Booth Theatre, where it ran for 304 performances.