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This Holiday Season Broadway Welcomes Roundabout Theater Company 's Production Of Holiday Inn Essay

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This Holiday season Broadway welcomes Roundabout Theater Company’s production of Holiday Inn. This new Irving Berlin musical will be playing at Studio 54 through January 1st. Before heading to Broadway in Fall of 2016, this show had an out-of-town successful trial at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam Connecticut in the Fall of 2014 as well as a residency at The Muny in St. Louis for Fall of 2015. This production is produced by Roundabout Theater Company. RTC is the nation’s largest theater non-profit. This organization has both Off-Broadway and Broadway productions running simultaneously. For this Roundabout Theater Company production, Sydney Beers is the general manager. She is on the executive staff for the company and is the general manager on all current Roundabout productions. Michael J. Passarro is the Production Stage Manager and Pat Snow is the Assistant Stage Manager. Both of these people are season professionals in the field and have worked together on many other shows such as Evita, The River and Pippin on Broadway. Holiday Inn tells the story of Jim, who leaves show business to settle down in his Connecticut farmhouse. Jim meets Linda, a schoolteacher, and with their talents combined they turn the farmhouse into an inn and create grand musical performances for each holiday to escape the foreclosure of the house. Meanwhile Jim’s best friend Ted is trying to win over Linda and take her to Hollywood to be his dance partner. Who will win the battle? The

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