![]() ![]() “Dreamgirls” will be the first show in the main Goodspeed Opera House season to feature a predominantly Black cast since “Abyssinia” in 2005.Ĭasting has not been announced for any of the shows. “Dreamgirls” premiered in 1982, but is nonetheless a rather “new” show for the Goodspeed, which tends to revive shows from the 1940s through the ‘60s (when not premiering all-new works). The Tom Eyen/ Henry Krieger musical about the rise of ‘60s girl groups such as the Supremes, will be directed by Lili-Anne Brown, who is based in Chicago and has worked at the Goodman and Victory Gardens theaters there. ![]() The script is by Robert Schenkkan, author of the Pulitzer-winning “Kentucky Cycle” and the LBJ bio-drama “All the Way.” “The 12″ has been around in various forms for over a decade in concert or workshop versions but this will be a major new production. John Doyle, whose Broadway revivals of “Sweeney Todd” in 2004, “Company” in 2006 and “The Color Purple” in 2015 are the stuff of legend, has been lured to the Goodspeed to helm a new musical about how the disciples of Jesus Christ react following their savior’s death. “Gypsy” will be directed by Jenn Thompson, a regular presence at the Goodspeed whose credits there include “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Oklahoma,” The Music Man” and “Anne of Green Gables.” The plum role in “Gypsy” is not Gypsy Rose Lee herself but her mother Mama Rose, which has been immortalized by Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters and others. ![]() The 1959 musical “suggested by” the memoirs of famed stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, has a book by Arthur Laurents (”West Side Story,” “The Way We Were”), music by Jule Styne (”Funny Girl”) and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (the last major show for which he wrote words for other people’s music before becoming a major composer/lyricist himself). The 2023 Opera House season, announced Thursday afternoon, includes: ‘Gypsy’ April 28 through June 18, 2023 Show titles for the Norma Terris won’t be announced until March of 2023. There hasn’t been a show there since December of 2019. Just as exciting is the news that there will be a 2023 season of new musicals at Goodspeed Musicals’ other performance space, the Norma Terris Theatre in Chester. shows on select Sundays tickets start at $29 (860) 873-8668, .Ĭomment threads are monitored for 48 hours after publication and then closed.A stage version of a classic Judy Garland movie, two familiar hits with strong female leads and a new musical from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and one of the most progressive directors in musical theater will all grace the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam next year. 28, Goodspeed Opera House, Main Street, East Haddam 2 and 7:30 p.m. “A Grand Night for Singing: A Celebration of Rodgers & Hammerstein,” opens Friday and runs through Nov. And kids under 12 can’t attend Goodspeed shows as of now because they can’t get vaccinated. Masks are required at all times, except when drinking in the bar area or outside. Exemptions will be addressed in advance, and anyone with an approved exemption must provide proof of a negative COVID PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance start time. People have to be fully vaccinated and show proof of vaccination when they enter the Opera House. Directing the production at Goodspeed is Rob Ruggiero it’s his 12th season helming a show there.Īs for COVID protocols, Goodspeed, like other theaters in the state, is taking no chances. The revue was conceived by Walter Bobbie, who directed “Chicago” and “Footloose” on Broadway. It boasts some numbers from “South Pacific” but also from the likes of “The Sound of Music,” “Carousel” and “The King and I.” It’s a revue titled “A Grand Night for Singing: A Celebration of Rodgers & Hammerstein, and it starts its run on Friday. It will, though, still highlight the magnificent work of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The show won’t be “South Pacific,” which Goodspeed had been planning as its production in 2020 and then for 2021. Now, though, what Goodspeed fans have been waiting for is going to happen: audiences can go inside the iconic Opera House and see a show live onstage. Goodspeed Musicals has had great success with its outdoor concerts and shows - the theater’s way of pivoting after the pandemic began. Performers rehearse for Goodspeed Musicals’ “A Grand Night For Singing: A Celebration of Rodgers & Hammerstein,” which opens Friday. ![]()
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