Goodspeed Musicals reopens Sept. 24 with Rogers and Hammerstein tribute show
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Goodspeed Musicals is reopening Sept. 24 wth a show featuring the music of Rogers & Hammerstein.Goodspeed Musicals / Contributed photo /
EAST HADDAM Goodspeed Musicals announced today that the two-time Tony Award-winning theater will reopen its doors beginning Sept. 24, with the rousing revue, “A Grand Night for Singing: A Celebration of Rodgers & Hammerstein” with a fresh take on the work of Rodgers & Hammerstein. This two-time Tony Award nominated show called “a songfest for those who love musical theater by Alan Bresloff for Around the Town Chicago, replaces the previously announced production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific.
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First, a somber memory .
Jan. 27 was Holocaust Remembrance Day. That brings to mind the late former Congressman from California, Tom Lantos, who passed some years ago from cancer. For those of you who aren t familiar with him, I will try to fill you in:
Tamas (Thomas) Peter Lantos was born in Bupapest, Hungary, to a Jewish family that was very educated with teachers, professors, etc.
Of course, during World War II, they were sent to concentration camps. When Tom was 16 years old he was beaten by Nazis and doing hard labor in a forced labor camp. Thank goodness he survived and grew up in.
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Am I Proud! .
The song Of Thee I Sing written by my 2nd cousins (on my fathers side), George and Ira Gershwin, became the first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize on Oct. 10, 1935 (way before I was born!). Also, the wonderful musical opera Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway before I was born. It was written by them as well and with Dubois Heywood. (I m NOT so old!)
On my very first CD, I recorded five of the Gershwin s great songs. I titled the CD Dreamer on the 18th Floor in honor of the Orlando Citrus Club where I was performing.