The festival welcomes a handful of playwrights, whose scripts are chosen from nearly 200 annual submissions, to spend two weeks collaborating with directors, dramaturgs, actors, and other theater professionals from across the nation. Realizing the deck is stacked against them, the Prince and Geraldine become inextricably linked to the club's members in a darkly hilarious new musical.Įvery summer, Portland Center Stage gets reminded about the vitality of this ever-changing, crazy fun, wild world of theater when JAW (short for J ust A dd W ater) takes over the Armory. Club members play a deadly card game nightly with higher stakes than the Prince has ever known. He and his chaperone Colonel Geraldine are invited to join a secret society - The Suicide Club. When Prince Florizel learns that his father the King of Bohemia is dead, he seeks to escape the throne. The Peculiar Tale of the Prince of Bohemia and the Society of Desperate Victorians by Book and Lyrics by Becca Anderson & Dan Marshall, Music by Julian Blackmore Hundreds of musical theatre lovers will gather on the Goodspeed campus for staged readings of brand new works as the brightest new writers and performers collaborate to create the future of America's greatest art form. Don't miss your chance to see the next big hit at Goodspeed's 14th Annual Festival of New Musicals. Every musical got its start somewhere-for many, it was at Goodspeed.

Goodspeed opera house schedule 2017