Fact-check: “Home of the American musical is the Goodspeed Theatre”
Verdict: Mostly True (82% confidence)
Goodspeed Musicals (formally the Goodspeed Opera House) in East Haddam, Connecticut, is widely documented as using 'The Home of the American Musical' as its institutional description, a characterization echoed by Connecticut's official tourism agency and a 1997 Connecticut Secretary of State publication. A 2008 Congressional Record entry also notes the theatre 'is considered by many to be the Home of the American Musical,' and Goodspeed holds two Special Tony Awards (1980, 1995) for contributio…
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