Signature Theatre (
Eric Schaeffer, Artistic Director) presents the Kander & Ebb Celebration, the highlight of the Theatre's spring 2008 season, opening on March 11 and running through June 22. The festival is a four-month celebration of the works of the great Broadway songwriting team of
John Kander &
Fred Ebb. Kander and Ebb were the longest-running songwriting partnership in Broadway musical history, working together from 1965 until Ebb's death in 2004.
The Kander & Ebb Celebration features the Tony Award® winning Kiss of the Spider Woman starring
Will Chase,
Natascia Diaz and
Hunter Foster (March 11- April 20), the rarely performed The Happy Time (April 1 – June 1) with
George Dvorsky,
David Margulies and
Michael Minarik, and the East Coast premiere of The Visit starring two time Tony Award® winners
Chita Rivera and
George Hearn, with
Mark Jacoby (May 13 – June 22).
Season subscriptions for the Kander & Ebb Celebration are currently on sale. For more information regarding subscriptions call the Signature Box Office at 703-820-9771. For more information, visit
http://www.signature-theatre.org. To honor Kander & Ebb, the Signature Theater has included the following display which chronicles and presents some of the key objects and photographs from the team's amazing career:
Photo Credit: Walter McBride/Retna