SCHMIGADOON!, THE 25TH ANNUAL SPELLING AT VAN PUTNAM COUNTY, & LEGALLY BLONDE announced for the 2024-2025 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts theater season

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Omigod you guys. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces its 2024-2025 theater season with a world premiere, exclusive performances and the latest Broadway hits.

Next season, Broadway Center Stage will produce the world premiere of Schmigadoon! (Jan. 31 – Feb. 9, 2025)), based on the Emmy Award-winning Apple Original series from Broadway Video, executive produced by creator, Saturday Night Live executive producer and 2021 Kennedy Center Honoree Lorne Michaels. Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli will direct and choreograph the new musical with book, music and lyrics by Emmy Award winner and Grammy nominee Cinco Paul. Bringing comedy to audiences all season long, the series kicks off with William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s hilarious, Tony Award®-winning hit, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (October 11-20, 2024). This June, Elle Woods will take the Center by storm in Legally Blonde The Musical, directed by Matt DiCarlo with a score by Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe and a book by Heather Hatch.

“When we launched Broadway Center Stage in 2018, I had no idea it would take us to Broadway and now across the country; yet our mission remains the same: collaborate with Broadway’s greatest artists to create premier musical productions for DC audiences,” said series Artistic Director and Kennedy Center Vice President and Executive Producer of Theater Jeffrey Finn. “This year, what a joy it is to produce a season of musical comedies, including Broadway CenterStage’s first-ever new musical. I can’t wait for the audience to come laugh with us.”

In a new relationship with the Manhattan Theater Club, the Kennedy Center will present MTC’s Broadway production of Jonathan Spector’s (This Much I Know) play Eureka Day (March 4-22, 2025) in an exclusive engagement. This deeply relevant and bitingly funny play is directed by Tony Award® winner Anna D. Shapiro (August: Osage County).

For more information about these productions/other shows coming to the Kennedy Center, visit here.

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