“Gypsy” will be directed by Jenn Thompson, a regular presence at the Goodspeed whose credits there include “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Oklahoma,” The Music Man” and “Anne of Green Gables.” The plum role in “Gypsy” is not Gypsy Rose Lee herself but her mother Mama Rose, which has been immortalized by Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters and others. The 1959 musical “suggested by” the memoirs of famed stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, has a book by Arthur Laurents (”West Side Story,” “The Way We Were”), music by Jule Styne (”Funny Girl”) and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (the last major show for which he wrote words for other people’s music before becoming a major composer/lyricist himself). The 2023 Opera House season, announced Thursday afternoon, includes: ‘Gypsy’ April 28 through June 18, 2023 Show titles for the Norma Terris won’t be announced until March of 2023. There hasn’t been a show there since December of 2019. Just as exciting is the news that there will be a 2023 season of new musicals at Goodspeed Musicals’ other performance space, the Norma Terris Theatre in Chester. A stage version of a classic Judy Garland movie, two familiar hits with strong female leads and a new musical from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and one of the most progressive directors in musical theater will all grace the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam next year.
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