Several special events will round out the weekend. Tickets are available at the Goodspeed box office or by calling (860) 873-8668 or online at www.goodspeed.org. Tickets are $15 each for one show, $10 each for students.

This year, Goodspeed has expanded its popular Festival Package with related events. The $75 package includes admission to all three staged readings; The Noel Coward Foundation Symposium: "Creating Next To Normal" with Tom Kitt (Tony Award winner Best Original Score, Best Orchestrations); "Pick-Two" festival seminar sessions; a Saturday evening pre-show dinner at the Gelston House with a post-dinner discussion hosted by a special guest speaker; and a Meet the Writers Reception, which will complete the weekend's festivities. Also included in the special Festival Package is admittance to the Friday Night and Saturday Night Cabarets: informal gatherings showcasing new songs by new artists.

For both Festival Package and single ticket holders, Goodspeed Opera House tours and movie musicals screenings will be offered throughout the weekend.

Michael P. Price, executive director of Goodspeed Musicals, stated, "It's exciting for us to see the Goodspeed campus bustling in wintertime. Our community comes alive when hundreds of musical theatre fans from around the country join the best and brightest new writers, actors and Hartt School students as they work together to create the future of musical theatre."

Here's a look at the new musicals being previewed in readings:

Hello Out There
Friday, Jan. 15, 7:30 PM Goodspeed Opera House
Book & Lyrics by Eric Price
Music by Frank Terry
"It's the summer of 1995, a dozen years before the current financial crisis and the scandal of Bernie Madoff. Three Internet-savvy teens earn tens of thousands of dollars in the stock market using an ingenious method that may or may not be illegal. When an immigrant taxi driver loses his life savings because of the teenagers' game, he alerts the S.E.C. What was initially a high-flying summer of getting rich turns upside down as the S.E.C. chases the teens across the Internet, through the New Jersey suburbs, and all the way to Wall Street."

ReWrite
Saturday, Jan. 16, 7:30 PM, Goodspeed Opera House
Book, Music & Lyrics by Joe Iconis
"This triple feature of wild musicals connects in surprising and dangerous ways. Nelson Rocks! is a pop/rock show about a young dude who needs to fix his life before the class bell rings. Miss Marzipan is a dizzy musical about a high-stakes dinner party. A little bit of blood is spilt, but it's nothing that some kitchen towels can’t clean up. The Process deals with a writer on deadline to finish his musical at the Dunkin' Donuts. As his characters begin to populate the coffee shop, our friendly counter lady serves as a guide through this passionate look into one man's writing process."

Lincoln In Love
Sunday, Jan. 17, 1 PM, Goodspeed Opera House
Book & Lyrics by Peter Kellogg
Music by David Friedman
"It's a crucial moment in young Abe Lincoln's life — the fledgling lawyer has served his first term in the Illinois state legislature and he's mourning the death of his fiancée, Ann Rutledge. Enter socialite Mary Todd, arrived in Springfield to visit her sister and find a husband suitable to her cultivated taste and ambition. While at first she finds Lincoln coarse and uncivilized, Mary sees his great potential after his first major trial. Their on-again, off-again relationship is just one of the challenges and events that shaped the young Lincoln into the leader he would become."