MAME & CAROUSEL Set for Goodspeed's 2012 Season!

Two time Tony Award-winning Goodspeed Musicals, under the leadership of Executive Director Michael P. Price, announced the 2012 musical season at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn. The 49th season includes three outstanding musicals that are sure to delight theatregoers: the bold and brassy Mame will run from April 20 - July 1; Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel will run from July 13 - September 23; and an exciting fall musical to be announced which will run from October 5 - December 9.

Mame features music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and is based on the novel Auntie Mame by PatRick Dennis and the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Mame will be directed by Ray Roderick (Goodspeed's Hello! My Baby, My One And Only, Singin' in the Rain, and 42nd Street) and choreographed by Vince Pesce (Associate Choreographer of Broadway's Anything Goes, The Pajama Game, Wonderful Town, and Little Shop of Horrors).

Carousel features music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It will be directed by Rob Ruggiero (Broadway's High and Looped and Goodspeed's Show Boat, Camelot, and 1776) and choreographed by Parker Esse (Associate Choreographer of Broadway's Finian's Rainbow and A Tale of Two Cities).

Advance season subscriptions are now on sale through the Box Office (860.873.8668), open seven days a week. Subscription prices range from $81 - $216 at the Goodspeed Opera House for one person, all three shows. Single tickets go on public sale beginning February 19, 2012.

Dedicated to the preservation and advancement of musical theatre, Goodspeed Musicals produces three musicals each season at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn., and additional productions at The Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, Conn., which was opened in 1984 for the development of new musicals. The first regional theatre to receive two Tony Awards (for outstanding achievement), Goodspeed also maintains The Scherer Library of Musical Theatre and The Max Showalter Center for Education in Musical Theatre. Goodspeed Musicals is supported in part by the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.