Music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Lutvak and Robert Freedman, book by FreedmanĪ Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder was a surprise hit in the 2014 Broadway season, with nine Tony award nominations and medallions for best musical, book, direction and costume design. The score includes the Berlin standards “Blue Skies,” “Easter Parade,” “Steppin’ Out With My Baby,” “White Christmas” and “Cheek to Cheek,” among others. Holiday Inn tells the story of a song-and-dance man who leaves showbiz for a Connecticut farm, which he eventually turns into a supper club open only. It had a holiday season run on Broadway in 2016 –17. The piece was retooled for a world premiere at Connecticut’s Goodspeed Opera House in 2014. While tuneful, it contains scenes that are racially insensitive today. A national tour visited the Fox Theatre in 2013.įans of musicals may recall the 1942 feature film with Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Marjorie Reynolds, which shows up on television every December. Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville, you might recall, staged the show in 2014. was augmented with 12 reprises and eight new numbers. Travers’ original books into the plot, and the familiar score - “A Spoonful of Sugar,” “Jolly Holiday,” “Feed the Birds,” “Let’s Go Fly a Kite,” etc. With the stage version, the creative team tried to infuse more of P.L. It was nominated for seven Tony awards, including best musical, losing to Spring Awakening but winning for Bob Crowley’s scenic design. The much-loved 1964 Disney movie became a stage musical in London in 2004 and on Broadway in 2006, running for more than six years. Sherman, George Stiles, Anthony Drewe and Julian Fellowes A closer look at the season follows.īy Richard M. The company is led by executive artistic director Brandt Blocker, managing director Natalie DeLancey and associate artistic director Shuler Hensley. A word to the wise: Runs are short - only eight performances each. Like Atlanta Lyric Theatre, the City Springs company stages only musicals. The professional nonprofit, in residence at the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center, uses the 1,070-seat Byers Theatre, which can feel quite large depending on your seat and ticket price.

City Springs Theatre Company begins its second season September 13 with Mary Poppins and ends it July 19, 2020, with Spamalot.

Goodspeed opera house 2019 season