Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour is delighted to celebrate our 2009-2010 touring season! This 17th anniversary season carries on our tradition of excellence and introduces some exciting new opportunities for your theater.
By the end of the 2009-2010 season, more than 30 tours will have played hundreds of cities across the country. These shows will have been a part of the lives of over 2 million children, teachers, and parents. Many of the students who see our productions may never have the chance to visit the national center for the performing arts, but can still experience the professionalism and talent that has become the trademark of Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences.
The tours begin with a fully mounted production and run at the Kennedy Center for Washington, DC metropolitan area audiences. Prior to the touring season, the shows are reworked specifically for the road, complete with performing company and production staff. Many works are specifically commissioned by the Kennedy Center in order to contribute to the development of new plays and musicals for young audiences. It is our belief that supporting the creation of new works for young audiences is critical to the ongoing revitalization of the field.
Tour highlights include: Red Badge of Courage; Alice In Wonderland; John Steinbeck's The Pearl; The Snow Queen; Little Women; a dance/theater adaptation of The Nightingale; a musical adaptation of Judith Viorst's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; an opera version of The Emperor's New Clothes; My Lord, What a Morning: The Marian Anderson Story; Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse; Walter Dean Myers' Harlem; A Light in the Storm; Alexander Who's Not Not Not Not Not Not Going to Move; Color Me Dark; Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka; Katie Couric's The Brand New Kid and a co-commission and co-production with the White House Historical Association called Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major.
The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour program includes a comprehensive education package to complement your season. Curriculum connections made through Cuesheet, a performance guide highlighting different activities and information for students for before and after the performance, and the Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge educational website are featured components of our national touring program. In addition to continued easy online access to the Center's Cuesheet Library, our original full-color Kennedy Center Cuesheet study guide booklets are now available, bringing us closer to your community.
The 2009-2010 touring season debuts the national tours of Chasing George Washington: A White House Adventure and Nobody's Perfect. Three kids on a White House field trip get the history lesson of a lifetime when they accidentally bump President George Washington out of his frame in the exciting musical, Chasing George Washington: A White House Adventure, which hits the road in October of 2009. Following in February of 2010, Nobody's Perfect tells the story of Megan and Alexis, the new girl, who are forced to work together on their Fourth Grade science fair project and discover more about themselves in the process, learning that nobody's perfect.
From a White House field trip adventure to a perfect purple party, the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour will reveal only the best in education and entertainment.
For more information about the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences On Tour contact us at kctyaontour@kennedy-center.org or (202) 416-8840.
Kennedy Center Performances for Young Audiences
