| 1980-81 Season |
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Theater
Lunch Hour
Mixed Couples
The Little Foxes
Early Days
Annie
Music
National Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Stern's 60th Birthday Celebration
Aaron Copland's 80th Birthday Concert
The Kennedy Center Festival Of Festivals:
Carnegie Hall Festival Concerts
Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival
Aspen Music Festival
Opera
The Peking Opera - Monkey King Fights 18 Lo Hans
Willie Stark
Dance
Dance America Series
The Martha Graham Dance Company
Special Events
The Third Kennedy Center Honors Gala
Pre-Inaugural Gala Concert
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| 1981-82 Season |
Theater
Mass
The Physicists
Emlyn Williams As Charles Dickens
These Are Women
Medea
Shiro
West Side Waltz
Ghosts
Music
Aaron Copland Concert
Mirielle Mathieu
Kool Jazz Festival
Opera
Washington Opera - The Rake's Progress, Donizetti's L'elisir
d'amore, The Barber of Seville, Trial by Jury, Monsieur
Choufleuri
Opera Orchestra of New York - Rienzi
A Bride from Pluto
Dance
Mazowsze
Special Events
The Fourth Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Count Basie, Cary Grant, Helen
Hayes, Jerome Robbins and Rudolf Serkin.
Napoleon
Broadway Plays Washington
Wolf Trap Benefit Gala
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| 1982-83 Season |
Theater
Monday After the Miracle
On Your Toes
Showboat
You Can't Take It With You
National Theater Of The Deaf - Parzival, from the Horse's
Mouth
Music
Guarneri String Quartet
Choruses Of The World
Concertgebouw Orchestra Of Amsterdam
Nacha Guevara
National Symphony Orchestra
Eubie Blake: A Century Of Music
Frank Sinatra in Concert
Opera
An Evening in Concert with Placido Domingo
Dance
Paul Taylor Dance Company - Mercuric Tidings, Lost, Found and
Lost
Rudolf Nureyev and the Zurich Ballet - Manfred
Ballet West - Swan Lake
Roland Petit's Ballet National de Marseille - Notre Dame
de Paris
Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians
Special Events
Scandinavia Today
The Fifth Kennedy Center Honors Gala - George Abbott, Lillian
Gish, Benny Goodman, Gene Kelly and Eugene Ormandy
Performances for Young Audiences - The Tale of Peter Rabbit, A
Bride From Pluto
USO Tribute to Bob Hope
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| 1983-84 Season |
Theater
American Buffalo
The Golden Age
Noises Off
Agnes of God
Death of a Salesman
The American College Theatre Festival XVI
Oedipus Rex
Albert Einstein: The Practical Bohemian
Music
Richard Stoltzman
National Symphony Orchestra
United Nations Concert
Youth Orchestra Of Ireland
John F. Kennedy Commemorative Concert
Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy & violinist Itzhak Perlman
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Laurie Anderson
Palm Sunday Bach Oratorio Weekend
Millennium
Opera
The Vienna Volksoper
A Quiet Place and Trouble In Tahiti
Dance
Houston Ballet - The Sleeping Beauty.
Special Events
The Sixth Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Katherine Dunham,
Elia Kazan, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart and Virgil Thompson
The John Curry Skating Company
A Salute To Roy Acuff
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1984-85 Season |
Theater
Jerry's Girls
Zorba
Nest of the Wood Grouse
Royal Shakespeare Compan - Much Ado About Nothing, Cyrano
de Bergerac
The Acting Company - As You Like It
My One And Only
The Count of
Monte Cristo
Chicago Season
The Trojan Women
The Grand Kabuki
The Iceman Cometh
Music
Northern Sinfonia Of England
The King's Singers
Washington Bach Consort
National Symphony Orchestra
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Andreas Vollenweider
Opera
Giulio Cesare
Dance
Jazz Tap Ensemble
San Fransisco Ballet
Special Events
The Seventh Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Lena Horne, Danny
Kaye, Gian Carlo Menotti, Arthur Miller, and Isaac Stern
Summer Entertainment '85 - Loretta Lynn, Tom Jones, Johnny
Mathis, the Pointer Sisters and Victor Borge.
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| 1985-86 Season |
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Theater
Lillian
A Seagull
Aren't We All?
Idiot's Delight
Hay Fever
The Haifa Municipal Theatre of Israel - Ghetto and The
Soul of a Jew
Orchards
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Carousel
Music
The Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards
Dame Joan Sutherland
Singing Christmas Tree
The Desert Music
Music of Black American Composers
Dresden Chamber Orchestra
Franz Liszt Centennial Celebration
Dance
The Erick Hawkins Dance Company
Houston Ballet - The Miraculous Mandarin
The Central Ballet Of China
American Ballet Theatre -
Paris Opera Ballet - Swan Lake.
Special Events
Bill Cosby
The Eighth Kennedy Center Honors Gala -Merce
Cunningham, Irene Dunne, Bob Hope, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick
Loewe, and Beverly Sills.
A Good Life
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| 1986-87 Season |
Theater
Vienna Lusthaus
Queenie Pie
A Raisin in the Sun
The Perfect Party
Les Miserables
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Mikado
Citizen Tom Paine
A Child Is Waiting
Of Thee I Sing
Let 'Em Eat Cake
My Gene
Music
Dezso Ranki
National Symphony Orchestra
The Christmas Story
Janos Starker
Kiri Te Kanawa
Opera
Goya
The Coronation Of Poppea
Deidamia
Dance
The National Ballet Of Canada
Pacific Northwest Ballet
Mark Morris Dance Group
Bolshoi Ballet
Special Events
The Ninth Kennedy Center Honors Gala
Mstislav Rostropovich 60th Birthday Gala
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| 1987-88 Season |
Theater
Breaking the Code
Mail
Utamaro
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
San Francisco Mime Troupe - The Mozamgola Caper
Wenceslas Square
Music
National Symphony Orchestra
European Community Youth Orchestra - Alto Rhapsody
An Evening of Music by Ben Johnson
Opera
Jorma Hynninen
Nixon in China
Dance
Dance Gala
Nina Wiener And Dancers
The Joffrey Ballet
The Royal Danish Ballet - Napoli
Special Events
The Tenth Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Perry Como, Bette
Davis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Nathan Milstein, and Alwin Nikolais
George Coates Performance Works - Actual Sho
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1988-89 Season |
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Theater
Sullivan and Gilbert
Driving Miss Daisy
Largely/New York
Steel Magnolias
Paul Robeson
Puss In Boots
King of Hearts
Speed-the-Plow
The World According to Me
Into the Woods
The Road to Mecca
Gypsy
Music
The American Romantics
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Barbara Cook
National Symphony Orchestra
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Vladimir Feltsman
Opera
Joan Sutherland
The Washington Opera - La Forza del destino, The
Postman Always Rings Twice
La Gran Scena Opera Company
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Dance
Nikolais Dance Theatre
San Francisco Ballet - Swan Lake
London Festival Ballet - Romeo and Juliet
The Kirov Ballet - Le Corsaire
David Gordon/Pick-Up Company
Special Events
The Eleventh Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Alvin Ailey,
George Burns, Myrna Loy, Alexander Schneider, and Roger L.
Stevens
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| 1989-90 Season |
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Theater
A Few Good Men
The Piano Lesson
Amahl And the Night Visitors
A Tuna Christmas
Stardust - A Musical Romance
The Wind in the Willows
Sarafina!
Music
Peter Serkin
Red Army Ensemble
National Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Songs from Sesame Street with Maria & Luis
Opera
The Washington Opera - The Merry Wives of Windsor, Werther, The
Auspern Papers, Aida, Die Fledermaus
Dance
The Joffrey Ballet - Cotillon, Le Sacre du
Printemps
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Ballet National De Marseille Roland Petit - Ma Pavlova
Boston Ballet - Romeo and Juliet
Spanish Dance Theatre
Jazz and Tap - Black and Blue
The Australian Ballet
Special Events
The Twelvth Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Harry Belafonte,
Claudette Colbert, Alexandra Danilova, Mary Martin, and
William Schuman
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