Michael Price, the theater's executive director, is proud of the Goodspeed's record and firm in his belief that he is not running “a tryout house for Broadway.” That was true of “Annie.” which made a faltering debut at Goodspeed last August but showed enough promise to be kept alive while experts worked to repair its ills. “We work as hard as we can to make the show as right as it can be-for Goodspeed.” That can be good enough for Broadway, as in the case of “Shenandoah,” or simply the first step on a longer road. “We never go into a show with Broadway in mind,” Mr. Now the Goodspeed has begun its 15th season with a revival of “Sweet Adeline.” the 1929 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein 2d and while nobody at the playhouse is talking up Broadway nobody is exactly talking it down, either.īill Gile, the director of “Sweet Adeline,” staged both “Very Good Eddie” and “Going Up” for Goodspeed and subsequently for Broadway. The lovingly restored old theater overlooking the Connecticut River has incubated no fewer than six Broadway musicals, including “Shenandoah.” “Very Good Eddie” and the new and immensely successful “Annie ”
The Goodspeed Opera House that picturesque pile of Victorians in East Haddam, Coon., is humming again, and if the Goodspeed runs true to recent form.
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