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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, including Annie, Man of La Mancha, and Shenandoah. Goodspeed Musicals also includes the Norma Terris Theatre in Chester as well as
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]
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. ... audiences can go inside the iconic Opera ...
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.
The Goodspeed Opera House presented an extensive revisal of the show in 2017, which started previews on October 6, opened on October 25, and closed on December 10. The musical has a new book by David Thompson, several new songs by Schwartz and Strouse, and starred Samantha Massell as Rebecca Hershkowitz.
Holiday Inn (also known as Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical) is a musical based on the Paramount Pictures 1942 film of the same name. The libretto is by Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. The musical opened on Broadway in 2016 after premiering at the Goodspeed Opera House in 2014.
Two productions were staged the next year. Both the St. Louis Municipal Opera and the Kansas City Starlight Theatre (in 1966, titled Superman) [4] re-staged the show, and Bob Holiday played Superman in both productions. Each was an open-air venue, requiring the use of a large crane to facilitate Superman's flights.