May 23 - 24, 2008
A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor broadcasts his National Public Radio show from the stage of
the Filene Center.
May 29- June 1, 2008
Riverdance
The Irish dance extravaganza which has been a hit at Wolf Trap nearly every
summer since 1997 returns for a shorter run than usual.
June 20, 2008
H.M.S.
Pinafore
The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players present the first of two of their
namesakes' superb comic operettas. This one was their first mega-hit which
took London and the entire world by storm – in 1879 there were no fewer than
a dozen productions playing in New York alone. Its combination of elegantly
tuneful music and delightfully witty lyrics supporting a preposterous plot
of the daughter of a Navy Captain who would rather wed a lowly sailor than
the equivalent of the Secretary of the Navy poked fun at just about every
British institution available.
June 21, 2008
The
Gondoliers
The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players present the second of two of their
namesakes' superb comic operettas, this one involves a typically convoluted
story of mixed up identities as it turns out that one of two gondoliers in
Venice is, in reality, the new King of Barritaria. The only problem is that,
due to a lack of vigilance years before when the secretly royal infant was
playing with another infant boy, it isn’t known which is the new king and
which a peasant.
June 27 - 29, 2008
Rent
Jonathan Larson’s rock-influenced musical sets the La Boheme story in New
York’s East Village. This touring version travels the country while the
original continues its run on Broadway.
July 6, 2008
Candide
Leonard Berntstein's score for the 1956 musical with lyrics by Richard
Wilbur, Lohn LaTouche and Stephen Sondheim will be performed in a concert
version by the National Symphony Orchestra with Jason Alexander, the Wolf
Trap Opera Company and the City Choir of Washington.
July 12, 2008
This Way to
Broadway
Marvin Hamlisch leads the National Symphony Orchestra Pops in a program of
songs by Gershwin, Berlin and even Hamlisch.
July 24, 2008
Not the
Messiah! (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
Eric Idle and John Du Prez, who teamed to make the Monty Python
Spamalot a Broadway hit, have worked up a comic oratorio that takes on
both Handel's oratorio Messiah and Monty Python's Life of Brian.
July 26, 2008
Broadway
Rocks!
Broadway veterans Susan Egan, Capathia Jenkins, Doug LaBrecque and Rob Evan
appear with the National Symphony Orchestra.
August 1, 2008
Rodgers &
Hamerstein at the Movies
Emil de Cou conducts the National Symphony Orchestra in "big-screen moments"
from the work of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
August 29 -
September 7, 2008
Les
Misérables
The sprawling novel by Victor Hugo is dramatized with the glorious score of
Claude-Michel Schönburg and Herbert Kretzmer (based on the original French
text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel). |
