UPDATE: F. Wade Russo to Speak at Rathbun Free Memorial Library

F. Wade Russo, Assistant Music Director at the Goodspeed Opera House is back for another encore! He will be speaking at Rathbun Library, 36 Main Street, East Haddam on Friday, July 12, at 5:30 presenting 'The Origins of Hello Dolly!"

Wade has given us spectacular presentations on Showboat! and Oscar Hammersein’s Carousel!. This year’s gift is how Jerry Herman, Michael Stewart and Gower Champion adapted Thornton Wilder's play

“The Matchmaker,” which became Hello Dolly! The musical is at the Opera House until September 14.

Join us for food and beverages in the garden.

Indoors if inclement weather

$5.00 suggested donation at the door.

Our next programs:

8/23 - Susan Meisler, docent at the Atheneum: “Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into Museums?” (Women Artists at the Wadsworth Atheneum)

9/20 - James Clark, author: Connecticut’s Fife and Drum Tradition, Wesleyan University Press, 2011.