Don't miss your chance to see the next big hit at Goodspeed’s 18th Festival of New Musicals! The Festival has launched more than 50 new musicals into the universe, sending them across the country, to Broadway, and around the world! Join us for a weekend filled with insider events, seminars, cabarets, and three staged readings of ... Read more
Dreamgirls, The Musical is coming to The Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam Connecticut November 10th - December 30th, 2023 Stars rise and fall… but dreams live forever! A 1960s Motown girl group catches its big break during an amateur competition. But will their friendship—and their music—survive the rapid rise from obscurity to pop super ... Read more
The 12, A New Musical, is coming to The Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam Connecticut September 8 - October 29, 2023 Jerusalem. The disciples are in disarray. Torn apart by the unthinkable death of their leader, see how twelve ordinary individuals come together to create one of the most powerful movements ever known. Filled ... Read more
Summer Stock, a new musical comedy, is coming to The Goodspeed Opera House this July in East Haddam Connecticut July 7 - August 27, 2023 Forget your troubles come on, get happy! The tradition of turning a barn into a theater finds fertile new ground in a joyous world premiere inspired by the classic Judy ... Read more
Gypsy, A Musical Fable is coming to The Goodspeed Opera House In East Haddam Connecticut April 18th - June 18, 2023 Here she is, world! Momma Rose, the ambitious stage mother determined to drive her daughters toward stardom, takes center stage in one of the most celebrated musicals of all time. And with her comes ... Read more
The Garde Arts Center and Goodspeed Musicals, two Outstanding Historic American Theaters, invite you to celebrate the holidays at the Garde with a free classic movie and a preview of a new Goodspeed musical. After 77 years, the 1945 classic Warner Bros. movie Christmas in Connecticut returns to the giant screen of the Garde movie ... Read more
Goodspeed Musicals’ Popular Outdoor Summer Series Returns with expanded programming. Pop, Rock, Jazz, Bluegrass, R&B and plenty of Show Tunes will wow audiences under the big top! Goodspeed by the River summer series which begins June 10 and runs through Labor Day and includes: Turn Back Time: Ben & Dee Rock the 70s 80s and ... Read more
Billy Elliot the Musical will be held through November 24th at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam. Young Billy Elliot is pulled between his family’s coal-mining roots and his newly discovered passion to dance. Is his future boxing gloves or ballet shoes? Schedule: Sundays at 6:30 pm Wednesdays at 2 pm and 6:30 pm ... Read more
The Drowsy Chaperone at The Goodspeed Opera House will run from September 21 through November 25, 2018 in East Haddam, Connecticut. In this hilarious valentine to show tunes and show people, a forgotten Jazz Age musical comes to life in the living room of a diehard theatre fan. As he eagerly spins his favorite cast ... Read more
Get tickets to see Oliver!, Charles Dickens’ hope-filled musical set in the dark shadows of Victorian London, at Goodspeed Musicals in East Haddam, now thru September 13th. Extending by popular demand, this show is now playing through Sept 13, 2018. Charles Dickens’ beloved orphan makes his Goodspeed debut in the hope-filled musical set in the dark ... Read more
