SCHMIGADOON!, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, & LEGALLY BLONDE Announced For The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2024–2025 Theater Season

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Alex Mecklosky
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Omigod You Guys. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces its 2024–2025 theater season featuring a world premiere, exclusive engagements, and the latest Broadway hits.

Next season, Broadway Center Stage will produce the world premiere production of Schmigadoon! (January 31–February 9, 2025) ), based on the Emmy Award–winning Apple Original series from Broadway Video, Executive Produced by Saturday Night Live creator, 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, the series opens with William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s hilarious, Tony Award®–winning hit, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (October 11–20, 2024). In 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 book by Heather Hatch.

“When we launched Broadway Center Stage in 2018, I had no idea it would take us to Broadwayand now across the country; and yet, our mission remains the same—to work with Broadway’s greatest artists to create first-class musical productions for D.C. audiences,” said series ArtisticDirector 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 audiences to come and laugh along with us.”

In a new relationship with Manhattan Theatre 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 wildly relevant and bitingly funny play is directed byTony Award® winner Anna D. Shapiro (August: Osage County).

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

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Alex Mecklosky

As a native New Yorker, Alex has always loved everything involving theatre. With a degree in Theatre and New Media from Marymount Manhattan College, Alex realized that, since he was not talented enough to be on Broadway, the next best thing would be to write about it!

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