Julie Andrews to Present Designer/Director Tony Walton with Goodspeed Musicals Award

On June 6th, Designer and Director Tony Walton will receive The Goodspeed Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre at Goodspeed Musicals’ Gala event RAZZLE DAZZLE. Master of Ceremonies Noah Racey, best known to Connecticut audiences for his work at the Goodspeed Opera House in Where’s Charley? and Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, will lead the evening’s festivities. The event will include a cocktail hour and an exquisite dinner followed by a live auction and entertainment by some of Broadway’s finest performers celebrating the incomparable talent and artistic vision of Tony, Oscar, and Emmy Award-winning honoree Tony Walton.

Mr. Walton and 2005 Goodspeed Award recipient Julie Andrews worked together at Goodspeed Musicals on both The Boy Friend at the Goodspeed Opera House in 2005 and The Great American Mousical at The Norma Terris Theatre in 2012.

Proceeds from the Gala will support Goodspeed Musicals’ Max Showalter Center for Education in Musical Theatre.

The Riverhouse at Goodspeed Station is located at 55 Bridge Street (Route 82) in Haddam, Connecticut.

Schedule: 6:30pm, Cocktail Reception

7:30pm, Dinner and Auction followed by entertainment and the presentation of the award

For tickets or to reserve a spot in the Razzle Dazzle Commemorative Journal, contact Mary Miko at 860.873.8664 ext. 368 or mmiko@goodspeed.org