Rema Webb, Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad in “The Book of Mormon” on Broadway.
The Kennedy Center announced its 2014-15 season this morning, and it features the return of big money-maker The Book of Mormon, a new production of the Puccini opera La bohème and a festival celebrating artists from Spain and Portugal.
National touring productions of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musicals Evita and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, as well as the Tony-winning Once, are part of the theater offerings. The Kennedy Center’s own musical Little Dancer — “loosely based on the creation of one of Edgar Degas’s most renowned sculptures” — will make its world premiere.
A new festival, “Iberian Suite: Arts Remix Across Continents,” will highlight “the cultures of Portugal and Spain and the impact they have had around the world, as well as the vast influence this region has embraced from other cultures,” a release states. “The festival includes dozens of performances by some of the region’s best contemporary music, dance, and theater artists—many of whom are making their U.S. or Washington, D.C. debuts—as well as companies from around the world.”
The Washington National Opera will put on a new production of Puccini’s La bohème, a revival of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman and the family opera The Little Prince.
The season, which runs from September to August, will feature more than 2,000 theater, dance and music performances.
See highlights from the upcoming season below.
Highlights Release – Kennedy Center Announces 2014-2015 Season