I hope our beautiful theatre can contain the excitement.” The evening promises to be an emotional celebration. Goodspeed Artistic Director Donna Lynn Hilton shared, “We could think of no better way to celebrate our 20 th Goodspeed Gala than with the first performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing and the re-opening of the Goodspeed Opera House following the pandemic shutdown. The buoyant new production will run September 24 through Novemat The Goodspeed in East Haddam, Conn. To celebrate the occasion, Goodspeed will hold its twentieth annual Gala on the first night of this rousing revue. It has never done “Cabaret.” “Anne of Green Gables” is considered a world premiere production, but has been in development for years and has even released a soundtrack album.EAST HADDAM, CT, AUGUST 31, 2021: Goodspeed Musicals is excited to announce the cast of A Grand Night for Singing: A Celebration of Rodgers & Hammerstein – marking the thrilling return of live musicals to the Opera House stage. The Goodspeed has staged “42nd Street” once before, in 2009. The show will be an add-on option to a Goodspeed season subscription.
The season announcement bills it as “a Goodspeed original.” It will run Nov.
A new winter holiday show, which is still being negotiated so not even the title has been released.Skinner previously worked at the Goodspeed in the late 1990s and early ‘00s as the choreographer for “Lucky in the Rain,” “George M!” and “Babes in Arms.” Randy Skinner, who was involved with the 2001 Broadway revival of the show, will both direct and choreograph the Goodspeed production. “42nd Street,” the tap-happy musical (based on the 1933 Busby Berkeley film) about the making of a Broadway musical, ends the regular season Sept.“Anne of Green Gables,” which has been described as a “folk rock musical,” will run from July 15 to Sept. It will be directed by Goodspeed stalwart Jenn Thompson (”Bye Bye Birdie,” “Oklahoma,” “The Music Man”). The long-awaited new musical based on the classic children’s book “Anne of Green Gables” with book and lyrics by Matte O’Brien and music by Matt Vinson, was previously announced for the 20 seasons.The John Kander and Fred Ebb musical about the decadent club scene in Berlin in the years leading up to World War II will be directed by California-based director James Vásquez, who directed a reading of the musical-in-progress “Harmony Kansas” for the Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals in 2012,
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