SUMMER STOCK Musical and Doyle-directed THE 12 for Goodspeed Season

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Posted: 10/13/22 at 4:07pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/SUMMER-STOCK-World-Premiere-New-Musical-THE-12-More-Announced-for-Goodspeed-Musicals-2023-Season-20221013

Goodspeed Musicals has announced its 2023 season at the Goodspeed Opera House. It will be an exciting and memorable season with stories that range from Vaudeville to Motown, from powerful to playful and everything in between.

The season will open with Gypsy, a Golden Age classic that will appear on the Goodspeed stage for the first time, featuring book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, which will run from April 28 - June 18. Next will be the world premiere musical comedy Summer Stock. Filled with hits from the American songbook, it is adapted from the MGM/Warner Bros. film Summer Stock by George Wells and Sy Gromberg, featuring music by Harold Arlen, Harry Warren and Gene DePaul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Mack Gordon, Saul Chaplin, Jack Brooks, Ted Koeler, E.Y. Harburg, Billy Rose and Leo Robin. Summer Stock will run July 7 - August 27. The fall production will be a bold and powerful new musical, The 12, with book and lyrics by Robert Schenkkan and music and lyrics by Neil Berg, which will run September 8 - October 29. Closing the season will be Dreamgirls, the dazzling Motown-inspired hit also making its Goodspeed debut, with book and lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger, running November 10 - December 30.