Signature Theatre Adds FIRST YOU DREAM To Its 20th Anniversary Season, Runs 9/10-9/27

This fall, from September 10 – 27, Signature Theatre will continue its exploration of the music of the great songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb with a new concert performance of some of the illustrious duo’s most popular songs.  Following up Signature’s highly praised 2008 Kander & Ebb Celebration, “First You Dream” The Kander & Ebb Concert will highlight the breadth of their songbook—from their early musical Flora, the Red Menace through hits like Cabaret and Chicago to their most recent show, The Visit, one of Signature’s recent hits.  The Kander & Ebb Concert will feature some of Signature and Broadway’s favorite singers accompanied by Broadway-sized 18-piece onstage orchestra in The Max Theatre.   

Signature’s Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer said, “I’m thrilled to feature John and Fred’s catalog of music as part of our 20th anniversary season. We’ve had a long relationship with these two men and it was only fitting that they be part of our celebration.  First You Dream will feature songs from every musical they wrote together and will focus on the brilliant words and the wonderful music. It promises to be a very special evening in the theatre.”

Tickets to “First You Dream” The Kander & Ebb Concert are currently available as part of Signature’s 20th Anniversary subscription packages.  For information on subscriptions please visit www.signature-theatre.org or call the Signature Box Office at 703/820-9771.

Under the leadership of co-founder and Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer and Managing Director Maggie Boland, Signature is a non-profit professional theater company dedicated to producing contemporary musicals and plays, reinventing classic musicals, and developing new work. To date, Signature has presented over 25 world premiere productions and is renowned for combining Broadway-quality productions with intimate playing spaces.  In addition to the finest talent from the DC metropolitan area and New York, Signature has been a home to such theater luminaries as John Kander and Fred Ebb, Cameron Mackintosh, Terrence McNally, and the company’s signature, Stephen Sondheim.  Signature has been nominated for 276 Helen Hayes Awards for excellence in the professional theater and has been honored with 69 Helen Hayes Awards, including Outstanding Musical in 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2005, 2006, and 2008, and Outstanding Play in 1999.

Signature Theatre is supported by grants from the Arlington Commission for the Arts, Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Signature Theatre is just nine minutes from downtown Washington, DC in Arlington’s Shirlington Village.  The new theater complex is located at 4200 Campbell Avenue (22206) off I-395 at the Shirlington exit.  After the exit, blue Signature signs mark the way to the Theatre.  Free parking is available in two adjacent public garages.  Please note that Campbell Avenue is a new street and some GPS online mapping systems do not yet recognize Signature Theatre's address.  For directions visit www.signature-theatre.org.

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