GOODSPEED MUSICALS Announces Productions for 2010 Season

Goodspeed Musicals, under the leadership of Michael P. Price, is thrilled to announce the 2010 musical season at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn. The 47th season includes three fantastic musicals that are sure to delight theatregoers: the fun and frolicking Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun will run from April 16 - June 27; the second production, Carnival! featuring such memorable classics as "Love Makes the World Go 'Round," will run from July 9 - September 18; and the Tony Award-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will run from September 24 - November 28.

From the team that brought you Camelot, the 2010 season opener will be Annie Get Your Gun, with Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin and Book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields as revised by Peter Stone.

Saddle up for a Wild West adventure! Ride along with Annie Oakley, a backwoods gal with a sure-shot and quick wit, as she challenges dashing marksman Frank Butler to be the star of Buffalo Bill's traveling show. Sparks fly faster than bullets as the competition and romance heat up. Featuring some of Broadway's greatest songs: "There's No Business Like Show Business," "Anything You Can Do," " I Got The Sun In The Morning," and "You Can't Get A Man With A Gun." This Irving Berlin classic hits the bulls-eye every time!

Goodspeed's Annie Get Your Gun will be directed by Rob Ruggiero of Goodspeed's 1776, Big River and last summer's legendary Camelot. Rob Ruggiero has directed numerous productions during his tenure as Associate Artistic Director of Hartford's TheaterWorks and recently brought his William Finn revue Make Me A Song to New World Stages in New York City. His current production of Looped, starring Valerie Harper, is scheduled to open on Broadway this spring. The choreographer will be Noah Racey, who thrilled Goodspeed audiences as Charley Wykeham in Where's Charley? . Mr. Racey served as Associate Choreographer of the Broadway sensation Thoroughly Modern Mille. Other Broadway credits include Curtains, Never Gonna Dance, and Follies. Annie Get Your Gun will be sponsored by Webster Bank and Comcast.

Audiences will be charmed by the wonderful story of Lili. Carnival! has Music and Lyrics by Bob Merrill and Book by Michael Stewart, with revisions by Francine Pascal.
The magical and heart-warming tale of a naïve young woman who eagerly joins a traveling circus. Surrounded by a riot of acrobats and jugglers, music makers and clowns, she is dazzled at first by the troupe's manipulative magician. In the end she finds happiness with a disillusioned puppeteer who can only express himself through his delightful puppets. Based on the film "Lili" and with songs like "Love Makes the World Go Round" and "Her Face," Carnival! casts a romantic spell over the entire audience.

Carnival! will be directed by Darko Tresnjak, who directed Goodspeed Musicals' Amour and A Little Night Music. Carnival! will be choreographed by Peggy Hickey, whose previous Goodspeed Musicals credits include Brigadoon, King of Hearts, Amour, On The Twentieth Century, and A Little Night Music. Carnival! will be sponsored by Mohegan Sun.

Climb the corporate ladder of laughs in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, with Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser and Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, based on Sheperd Mead's 1952 book of the same name.

In this hysterical satire of American industry, an ambitious window-washer uses a bit of charm, a lot of flattery and a little self-help manual called How to Succeed... to zoom up from mail room clerk to executive suite boss. A triumph of musical theatre with a happy and witty score that includes ""The Company Way," "I Believe in You" and "Brotherhood of Man." Winner of 7 Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Director and Choreographer for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying have yet to be announced. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will be sponsored by Liberty Bank and Connecticut Light & Power.

Advance season subscriptions are now on sale through the Box Office (860.873.8668), open seven days a week, or on-line at www.goodspeed.org. Subscription prices range from $82.50 - $210 at the Goodspeed Opera House for one person, all three shows. Single tickets go on public sale beginning February 21, 2010.

Curtain times are Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Thursday at 7:30 p.m. (with select performances at 2:00 p.m.), Friday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and
Sunday at 2:00 p.m. (with select performances at 6:30 p.m.).

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 only 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 the Musical Theater. Goodspeed gratefully acknowledges the support of Comcast, Connecticut Light and Power, Liberty Bank, Mohegan Sun, Webster Bank, and support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.

For more information, visit www.goodspeed.org

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