It was so great to be back up at Goodspeed Musicals, my theatrical home, to music-direct a piece written by two of my biggest mentors: Michael O'Flaherty, Goodspeed's resident music director, and Larry Fecho, artistic director of Genesius Theater (which O'Flaherty co-founded in 1971, and where I grew up on and offstage). Hunter Foster directed, and Lisa Shriver providing the choreography and musical staging. The five-piece orchestration was masterfully done by my friend and colleague, Dan DeLange, with a superb cast led by Lenny Wolpe (Scrooge) and Michael Thomas Holmes (the Ghosts). With rave audience reviews (no critics are allowed at the developmental Terris Theatre), we fully expect A Connecticut Christmas Carol to become a perennial event for people in the "Greater Central Region of the Constitution State!"
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