Festival of New Musicals 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 Musicals.
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2019 |
SEE THE 2019 FESTIVAL PAGE |
THE PECULIAR TALE OF THE PRINCE OF BOHEMIA AND THE SOCIETY OF DESPERATE VICTORIANSFRIDAY, JAN 18, 7:30 PM Book and Lyrics by Becca Anderson & Dan Marshall When Prince Florizel learns that his father the King of Bohemia is dead, he seeks to escape the throne. He and his chaperone Colonel Geraldine are invited to join a secret society - The Suicide Club. Club members play a deadly card game nightly with higher stakes than the Prince has ever known. Realizing the deck is stacked against them, the Prince and Geraldine become inextricably linked to the club's members in a darkly hilarious new musical. Follow the show's progress on the writers' website |
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THE PROXY MARRIAGESATURDAY, JAN 19, 7:30 PM Book & Lyrics by Michele Lowe |
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DEVOTIONSUNDAY, JAN 20, 1:00 PM Music, Book and Lyrics by Mark Sonnenblick Wanda Lee, a young woman in the fictional town of Braxton, Ohio, feels totally lost. Paul, a football star who became addicted to painkillers after a career-ending injury, feels much the same. When Wanda Lee's ten-year-old brother tells both of them he's been recruited for a divine mission, Paul and Wanda Lee must decide whether to bring him to his senses or join him on the journey. A story about addiction (not just to drugs) and belief (not just in religion), Devotion is a heartfelt, uplifting musical set against an American crisis of community. |
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2018 |
SEE THE 2018 FESTIVAL PAGE |
FIVE POINTSFRIDAY, JAN 12, 7:30 PMMusic by Ethan Pakchar and Douglas Lyons Lyrics by Douglas Lyons Book by Harrison David Rivers New York City. 1863. Set amidst the tumult of the Civil War, Five Points chronicles the journeys of two men - Willie Lane, a young black performer at the famed Almack’s Dance Hall, and John Diamond, an Irish immigrant and former jig champion - as they risk everything in pursuit of the American Dream. |
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SWEETWATERSATURDAY, JAN 13, 7:30 PM |
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PASSING THROUGHSUNDAY, JAN 14, 1:00 PM |
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2017 |
SEE THE 2017 FESTIVAL PAGE |
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCKFriday, Jan 13, 7:30 PM Valentine’s Day, 1900. Victoria, Australia. The girls from the prestigious Appleyard College are released from their studies to take a day trip to Hanging Rock, an ancient geological rock formation. The wilderness is seductive. The girls are enraptured. The mystery begins... Daniel Zaitchik’s Picnic at Hanging Rock is a haunting musical adaptation of one of Australia’s most treasured and evocative novels. |
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ZMSaturday, Jan 14, 7:30 PM Can a sandwich turn people into zombies? ZM follows two teenaged fast-food workers as they struggle to live, and love, during a food-borne catastrophe that might well destroy Humanity. The creators of the Tony Award-winning Urinetown serve up a humorous new musical satire that will make you think twice before rolling up to the drive-thru of your favorite fast food restaurant. |
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ROWSunday, Jan 15, 1:00 PM In June, 1998, Tori Murden left her job as a project manager in Louisville, Kentucky, and embarked on what no woman had ever done: row across the Atlantic. She set out with her homemade vessel, covered over 1,000 miles and rowed over 200,000 strokes. She made videos to track her journey, even when she lost all radio connection with the outside world. But she unknowingly rowed into the heart of Hurricane Danielle. Row tells a heartbreaking and ultimately uplifting story of finding your heart in the middle of the ocean. |
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2016 |
SEE THE 2016 FESTIVAL PAGE |
WE FOXESFriday, Jan 15, 7:30 PM Track the show's progress here. |
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MILO AT THE MOVIESSaturday, Jan 16, 7:30 PM Track the show's progress here. |
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ONLY ANNESunday, Jan 17, 1:00 PM |
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2015 |
SEE THE 2015 FESTIVAL PAGE |
OUTLAWSFriday, Jan 16, 7:30 PM • Track the show's progress HERE |
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THE NOTEWORTHY LIFE OF HOWARD BARNESSaturday, Jan 17, 7:30 PM • Track the show's progress HERE |
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FOR TONIGHTSunday, Jan 18, 1:00 PM • TheatreFest15 on the Isle of Man: October 9-10, 2015 |
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2014 |
SEE THE 2014 FESTIVAL PAGE |
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ADAM LIVES
Friday, Jan 17, 7:30 PM Adam is an unsuccessful songwriter who doesn’t know how to settle into his long-term relationship with Claudia. When he has an opportunity to write for an emerging pop superstar, Adam is forced to decide which he values more: an enduring partnership or a love that is worthy of song. Adam Lives is about finding and keeping the important things in life, but at what cost? • Track the show's progress HERE |
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A PROPER PLACE
Saturday, Jan 18, 7:30 PM It is 1902. Mayfair, England. When an upper class British family is shipwrecked on an island with only their butler to help them survive, traditional class systems are questioned and unexpected love blossoms. Based on J. M. Barrie’s play The Admirable Crichton, this musical fantasy with a sumptuous score, dubbed a “cross between Downton Abbey and Gilligan’s Island,” is a classic tale of equality, survival and forbidden love. • 2014 Village Theatre Festival of New Musicals, August 2014 |
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THE THEORY OF RELATIVITYSUNDAY, JAN 19, 1:00 PM This unconventional new musical from the writers of The Story of My Life is a joyous and moving look at our surprisingly interconnected lives. Through a collection of songs, scenes and monologues, The Theory of Relativity introduces a compelling array of characters experiencing the joys and heartbreaks, the liaisons and losses, the inevitability and the wonder of human connection. • Goodspeed's Terris Theatre, May 7-30, 2015 |
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2013 |
SEE THE 2013 FESTIVAL PAGE |
NINE WIVESFriday, Jan 18, 2013 Nine Wives tells the story of Henry Mann, a 32-year-old bachelor who discovers that the love of his life has met someone new and is about to get married. What’s worse, he’s been invited to her wedding! What follows are Henry’s frantic attempts to find a woman he can take as his date – a potential future wife – to prove to his ex-fiancée (and the world) that he too is ready to move on. • TriARts Sharon Playhouse, July 24-27, 2014 |
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COME FROM AWAYSaturday, Jan 19, 2013 Come From Away is a rocking musical about when 38 planes from around the world were diverted to a small, Canadian community on September 11th, 2001 - doubling its population in an instant. While the world witnessed the worst acts of humankind, the stranded passengers had their faith in humanity restored by the spirited people who comforted those who had come from away. • La Jolla Playhouse, May 29-July 12, 2015 |
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PRINCESSES: A NEW ROCK MUSICALSunday, Jan 20, 2013 |
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2012 |
SEE THE 2012 FESTIVAL PAGE |
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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. • New York Theatre Barn at the D-Lounge: July 29, 2013• Diversionary Theatre, San Diego, CA: June 14 - July 22, 2012 • Track the show's progress HERE |
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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 provocative 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. • The Green Room 42, March 2, 2020 |
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2011 |
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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. • Available for licensing through MTI• Rubicon Theatre Company, Ventura, CA: Mar 21 - April 15, 2012 • Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre: Nov 3 - 27, 2011 • Track the show's progress HERE |
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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? • Second Stage Theatre, New York NY: June 20-August 11, 2013• NAMT Festival of New Musicals: Fall 2012 • The Old Globe, San Diego, CA: May 9 - June 17, 2012 |
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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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2010 |
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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. • Adirondack Theatre Festival, Glens Falls, NY: July 2011 |
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ReWriteSaturday, January 16, 2010 • Selections performed at Joe's Pub, NYC: Nov 6, 2010 |
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Lincoln In LoveSunday, Jan 17, 2010 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. • New Works Festival, The Village Theatre, Seattle: Aug 15, 2010• Reading at Ford's Theatre, Washington D.C.: 2010 • Track the show's progress HERE |
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2009 |
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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. • Freed-Hardman University: April 22-26, 2015 |
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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. • Available for licensing through MTI |
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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. • 54 Below: February 25, 2015 |
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2008 |
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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. • Arts Garage, Delray Beach, FL: April 18-May11, 2014 |
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Tales From the Bad YearsSaturday, January 19, 2008 • The Viewpoints Collective: Jan 28-Feb 1, 2015 |
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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 established to feature the joyous talents of a group of young theatre artists. • TADA! Theatre, NYC: Aug-Sept 2009 |
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2007 |
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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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2006 |
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Once Upon a Time in NarcissiaFriday, January 20, 2006 A modern take on a Cinderella who doesn't get the Prince. |
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Romancing the ThroneSaturday, January 21, 2006 A musical of secret identities, palace intrigue and a struggling actor who is cast in the role of a lifetime. |
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I See London, I See FranceSaturday, January 21, 2006 Love and romance in the pressure-filled, ultra-hyped world of advertising. |