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Festival of New Artists Archives
There is life after the Festival! Track the progress and learn about upcoming productions of your favorite musicals from Goodspeed's Festival of New Artists.
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HARMONY, KANSASFriday, Jan 13, 2012 A new musical with a lively, soulful score that follows Heath, a farmer in rural Harmony, Kansas and his city-born partner who talks him into joining the newly formed gay men's chorus. Heath discovers a love for making music and unexpected kinship. But when the group decides to perform in public, his world is turned upside down and all that matters to him is threatened. • Diversionary Theatre, San Diego, CA: June 14 - July 22, 2012 |
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NOT WANTED ON THE VOYAGESaturday, Jan 14, 2012 A housewife, her husband, their three sons, and a talking cat - just an ordinary family living ordinary lives in the turbulent days before the Great Flood. Their ordinary lives are turned upside-down when they learn that they alone will survive the comnig deluge. Filled with magic, mythology and, above all else, hope, Not Wanted on the Voyage is a probocative new musical about the first time the world ended. |
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THE DOGS OF PRIPYATSunday, Jan 15, 2012 USSR, 1986. As all humans are evacuated from Chernobyl, their pets are left behind to fend for themselves. This is the story of those animals. Boychik is a gentle mutt who pines for his masters' return. But when a pair of alphas take control, Boychik learns how to hunt, kill and ultimately form a new kind of family. Based on true events, The Dogs of Pripyat is a story about hope and survival when they seem least possible. |
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HELLO! MY BABYBook & New Lyrics by Cheri Steinkellner From debutante balls to Delancey Street, Hello! My Baby puts a new-fashioned spin on the great American songbook musical, weaving the updated hits of Berlin, Gershwin, Kern, and a score of others into a timely and hilarious tale of first love, class-struggles, street-gangs, gender-swapping, and a whole lot of ukuleles. • Track the show's progress HERE• Rubicon Theatre Company, Ventura, CA: Mar 21 - April 15, 2012 • Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre: Nov 3 - 27, 2011 |
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NOBODY LOVES YOUMusic & Lyrics by Gaby Alter Nobody Loves You is a romantic comedy about the search for meaningful relationships in a culture dominated by the quest for popularity. When Jeff, a philosophy grad student, goes on a reality TV dating show to win back his ex, he instead finds a girl who might be the love of his life. But will she fall for him once he is seduced by the adulation of his fans? • NAMT Festival of New Musicals: Fall 2012• The Old Globe, San Diego, CA: May 9 - June 17, 2012 • Second Stage Theatre, New York NY: June 20-August 11, 2013 |
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ROOM 16Book by Andrea LepcioMusic by Stephen Sislen Lyrics by Stephen Sislen & Ben H. Winters Originally Developed by Stephen Sislen & Ben H. Winters Room 16 tells the story of the unlikely friendship between G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, and the events leading to the Watergate break-in of June, 1972. With a score spanning America popular musical styles from swing and big band to folk and early '70s rock, Room 16 is a fast-paced and darkly comedic look inside American political history. |
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Hello Out ThereFriday, Jan 15, 2010 It’s the summer of 1995, a dozen years before the current financial crisis and the scandal of Bernie Madoff. Three Internet-savvy teens are able to earn tens of thousands of dollars in the stock market using an ingenious method that may or may not be illegal. When an immigrant taxi driver loses his life savings because of the teenagers’ game, he alerts the SEC. What was initially a high-flying summer of getting rich turns upside down as the S.E.C. chases the teens across the Internet, through the New Jersey suburbs, and all the way to Wall Street. • Staged Reading at Playwright's Horizons, NYC: March 2011 |
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ReWriteSaturday, January 16, 2010 • Track the show's progress HERE • Selections performed at Joe's Pub, NYC: Nov 6, 2010 |
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Lincoln In LoveSunday, Jan 17, 2012 It’s a crucial moment in young Abe Lincoln’s life - the fledgling lawyer has served his first term in the Illinois state legislature and he’s mourning the death of his fiancée, Ann Rutledge. Enter socialite Mary Todd, arrived in Springfield to visit her sister and find a husband suitable to her cultivated taste and ambition. While at first she finds Lincoln coarse and uncivilized, Mary sees his great potential after his first major trial. Their on-again, off-again relationship is just one of the challenges and events that shaped the young Lincoln into the leader he would become. • Track the show's progress HERE• New Works Festival, The Village Theatre, Seattle: Aug 15, 2010 • Reading at Ford's Theatre, Washington D.C.: 2010 |
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Life on the MississippiFriday, Jan 16, 2009 Young Samuel Clemens leaves home to learn steamboat piloting on a Mississippi riverboat in 1858 and unexpectedly finds himself learning about life. And death. And love. And writing. All while navigating his way from boy to man and from Samuel Clemens to Mark Twain. Based on Twain’s autobiographical coming-of-age tale. • Track the show's progress HERE |
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Band Geeks!Saturday, Jan 17, 2009 Band Geeks! is a high-stepping tribute to high school marching bands and misfits everywhere. With just nine members and dwindling funds, the Cuyahoga High Marching Beavers are close to extinction. When a troubled athlete is relegated to their ranks, Elliott, the tuba-playing band captain and Laura, his best friend, must find a way to unite the band, overcome their pride and embrace their inner geek. • The Human Race Theatre Company, Dayton, OH: May 31 - June 17, 2012 |
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Factory GirlsSunday, Jan 18, 2009 At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution the Lowell Mill Girls’ must fight to maintain their country values and their humanity as they become America’s first independent working women. Armed with her pen and her voice, and fueled by a revolutionary spirit, one girl secretly rallies her co-workers against the burgeoning “soul-less corporation.” Her choice affects not only the girls and their community but also the fate of the American worker. |
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The Trouble with Doug: A Modern-Day MetamorphosisFriday, January 18, 2008 Inspired by Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” 28 year old Doug finds himself turning into a slug. His family and fiancée face this utterly absurd reality and change along with him in this serio/comic slice of life. • TheatreWorks, New Works Festival, Silicon Valley, CA: Aug 4 - 19, 2012 |
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Tales From the Bad YearsSaturday, January 19, 2008
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Genesius, The MusicalSunday, January 20, 2008 Based on a true story, this musical celebrates the founding, struggles, successes and heart of a theatre company specifically extablisehhd to feature the jouous talnets of a group of young theatre artists. • TADA! Theatre, NYC: Aug-Sept 2009 |
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PearlWednesday, January 17, 2007 A haunting re-imagination of The Scarlet Letter, in which Hester Prynne's 12-year-old daughter, Pearl, seeks the truth about her family's mysterious past and ultimately, her own true self. |
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Tinyard HillThursday, January 18, 2007 South Georgia, 1964. A rural blacksmith and his son work to find mutual understanding and acceptance in a world that is simultaneously shrinking and getting too large to ignore. • Cumberland County Playhouse, Crossville, TN: April 16 - July 11, 2010 |
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The Great American RaceFriday, January 19, 2007 The life of legendary NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt told against the backdrop of the Daytona 500 - a stirring story of fall and redemption. |
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