Don't miss your chance to see the next big hit at Goodspeed's 19th Festival of New Musicals! The Festival has launched more than 50 new musicals into the universe, sending them across the country, to Broadway, and around the world! Join us for a weekend filled with insider events, seminars, cabarets, and three staged readings of brand-new works as the brightest writers and performers collaborate to create the future of America's greatest art form.
For the first time, the Festival will be held at The Terris Theatre in Chester, a charming town filled with unique shops and restaurants!
Schedule of Events
Seminar Sessions
1:00pm - 4:30pm - Chester Meeting House (4 Liberty St - Just two blocks from the Terris Theatre)
Oy Band
7:30pm - The Terris Theatre
Book, Music, & Lyrics by Bonnie Gleicher
When a vocal group of four Orthodox Jewish girls from Brooklyn come of age and can no longer sing in front of men, they disguise themselves as a boy band to perform for the whole forbidden world. Oy Band is the new empowering musical about the visceral need to do what you love and to discover who YOU really are... by pretending to be someone else.
Cheeyang Ng: Legendary
10:00pm - The Terris Theatre
Legendary is Cheeyang’s journey in unpacking and processing the trauma of moving to a new country alone, leaving everything they knew behind while navigating a completely different culture, at the same time, trying to prove to everyone that the decision was worthwhile. Legendary weaves the mythological stories that they grew up with alongside their experiences immigrating to America, in a discovery to understand loss, ambition and self.
Born and raised in Singapore, Cheeyang Ng (they/them) is an award-winning singer-songwriter who writes at the intersection of queer, Asian and immigrant stories. They have performed around the world, including Lincoln Center with Carole King and Carnegie Hall with a cappella group Vocalosity. They are the first Singaporean to headline a concert at Joe's Pub, Feinstein’s/54 Below and Millennium Stage at Kennedy Center showcasing their original music. Their songs have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago and London.
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