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‘Aladdin,’ ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ headline Kennedy Center 2018-2019 season

WASHINGTON — The Kennedy Center just announced its 2018–2019 theater season.

The announcement was made Tuesday morning from the stage of the newly renovated Terrace Theater, including a performance of “Waving Through a Window” from the Tony-winning “Dear Evan Hansen,” which began at Arena Stage and will now return home at the Kennedy Center.

In all, the Kennedy Center will present seven Broadway productions, all of which are either currently running or recently completed runs on Broadway.

The season opens with “Anastasia,” the new musical from the Tony-winning creators of “Ragtime,” followed by the Broadway musical, “Miss Saigon,” and the comedy, “The Play That Goes Wrong.”

Summer 2019 will include Betty Buckley in the Tony-winning revival of “Hello, Dolly!” before audiences are taken to a whole new world with Disney’s hit Broadway musical, “Aladdin.”

We’ll also get the Tony–nominated Lincoln Center Theater production of “Falsettos” and the D.C. premiere of the critically acclaimed new musical “The Band’s Visit.”

In addition to “Byhalia, Mississippi,” the Kennedy Center will self-produce six musicals and play readings through its Broadway Center Stage series. Following on the heels of the wildly successful inaugural year, which included sold-out productions of “Chess” and “In the Heights,” next season’s series of musicals will feature “Little Shop of Horrors,” “The Music Man” and “Tommy.”

The Kennedy Center has also commissioned the new holiday show, “Love, Factually” from Chicago’s Second City. Combining characters from the film “Love, Actually” with an original improv romantic tale, the show will make its world premiere in the Kennedy Center’s Theater Lab.

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