Mahagonny, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1978: Rep founder Robert Brustein loved Bertolt Brecht and produced three versions of the Brecht-Kurt Weill show at Yale. It was a ribbiting, er, I mean, riveting experience. A Stephen Sondheim enthusiast, I found this show - which featured then-Yale School of Drama students Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver and Christopher Durang in the chorus - musical heaven, and not just because I was in the rafters at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium’s swimming pool. The Frogs, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1974: This was my first trip to New Haven and it was love at first sight. The following is my top 10 Connecticut musicals in the order I saw them: Also nixed are shows at the National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford because these shows are staged readings - though musical aficionados would give their aisle seat to have been at the first look-see of In the Heights, Avenue Q or Nine there. I am also not including shows done at Goodspeed’s Norma Terris Theatre in Chester because these are workshops, oops, I mean “developmental productions,” which exclude critics.
I’m also excluding touring musicals at presenting houses such as Hartford’s Bushnell or New Haven’s Shubert, though the Shubert was the theater for all Broadway-bound shows during the Golden Age of Musicals.
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