Goodspeed Musicals announces 2023 season
Single tickets are on sale now
Two-time Tony Award-winning Goodspeed Musicals proudly announces the music, choreographer and director teams for its 2023 season productions at the Goodspeed Opera House. Extraordinary talent from near and far will bring to life an exciting and memorable season with stories that range from Vaudeville to Motown, from powerful to playful and everything in between. Single tickets for all four shows of Goodspeed’s 2023 season are now on sale.
The season will open with Gypsy, a Golden Age classic that will appear on the Goodspeed stage for the first time, which will run from April 28 – June 18. Music direction will be by Goodspeed’s Resident Music Director Adam Souza (Goodspeed: Over 20 productions including 42nd Street, Cabaret, A Grand Night for Singing, Because of Winn Dixie; Broadway: Wicked, Kinky Boots). Gypsy will be choreographed by Patricia Wilcox (Goodspeed: The Music Man, Bye Bye Birdie; Broadway: Motown the Musical, A Night with Janis Joplin). After directing several recent hits at Goodspeed (Anne of Green Gables, The Music Man, Oklahoma!, Bye Bye Birdie), Jenn Thompson returns to direct the production (Current National Tour: Annie; Off Broadway: Conflict, Women Without Men).
Next will be the world premiere musical comedy Summer Stock. Filled with exuberant dance numbers and hits from the American songbook, it is adapted from the MGM/Warner Bros. film Summer Stock and will run July 7 – August 27. Music supervision will be by Tony Award-winner Doug Besterman (Broadway/Orchestrations: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award), The Producers (Tony Award), Fosse (Tony Award). Music direction will be by Goodspeed’s Residen2t Music Director Adam Souza. Summer Stock will be choreographed and directed by one of Canada’s most versatile and in-demand creative talents Donna Feore (Stratford Festival: Chicago, Billy Elliot; 5th Avenue Theatre: Broadway Vacation). Summer Stock is produced by special arrangement with VenuWorks Theatricals: Steven Peters and Michael Londra, Principals; Carolyn Rossi Copeland, Executive Producer.
The fall production will be a bold and powerful new musical, The 12, which will run September 8 – October 29. Music direction will be by Goodspeed’s Resident Music Director Adam Souza. Music supervision will be by Drama Desk Award-nominated Greg Jarrett (Broadway: Gigi, Les Liaisons Dangereuses). Tony Award-winning director John Doyle, known for masterfully reinventing the stage musical, will direct and musically stage The 12(Broadway: The Color Purple, Sweeney Todd (Tony Award), Company). The 12is produced by special arrangement with Joe Grano and Cody Lassen.
Closing the season will be Dreamgirls, the dazzling Motown-inspired hit also making its Goodspeed debut, running November 10 – December 30. Music direction will be by Goodspeed’s Resident Music Director Adam Souza. Award-winning teaching artist Breon Arzell will choreograph Dreamgirls (Olney Theatre: Fela!, Miss You Like Hell; MUNY: Rent, The Color Purple). Directing the production is Chicago native Lili-Anne Brown who has directed and produced many award-winning shows nationally (Huntington Theatre: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Goodman Theatre: School Girls, or The African Mean Girls Play).
Now in her third season as Goodspeed’s Artistic Director, Donna Lynn Hilton shared, “We are proud to welcome this accomplished group of artists to our stage. Their skill and visionary theatremaking will define Goodspeed’s 60th anniversary season as we continue to produce the best of musical theatre to challenge, delight and entertain our devoted and growing audience.”
Single tickets are now on sale through the Box Office (860.873.8668), open weekdays at 10 a.m. and online at goodspeed.org. Season tickets for all four shows at The Goodspeed are still available and start at $116. Goodspeed Memberships for 2023, which provide many benefits to donors, are also available. More information can be found at goodspeed.org.
Gypsy and Dreamgirls are presented through arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark, LLC.
A season of new musicals at Goodspeed’s Terris Theatre will be announced soon.
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