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1990-91 Season

Theater
Lend Me A Tenor
Grand Hotel, The Musical
Lucifer's Child

The Heidi Chronicles
The Phantom of the Opera

Music
National Symphony Orchestra
Coleman Blumfield
José Feghali
Chamber Artists of Washington
New York Philharmonic
Music of Duke Ellington
Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell & Vladimir Ashkenazy
Santa Fe Chamber Ensemble
Tokyo String Quartet

Opera
The Washington Opera - Salome, La Bohème, Manon, Rigoletto, The Magic Flute, King Arthur,The Saint of Bleeker Street

Dance
San Francisco Ballet - The Sleeping Beauty
American Ballet Theatre - Coppelia
The Royal Ballet - Swan Lake
Erick Hawkins Dance Company

Special Events
The Thirteenth Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Dizzy Gillespie, Katharine Hepburn, Risë Stevens, Jule Styne, and Billy Wilder

The Texas Festival at the Kennedy Center:

    In The West
    The Dallas Symphony Orchestra
    Eduardo Montemayor's Ballet Fantasia Española
    Rosa Guerrero International Folkorico
    Houston Ballet
    Camp Logan
    A Night Of Texas Songs And Songwriters

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1991-92 Season

Theater
Tru
Two Trains Running
The Shadow of a Gunman
Bye Bye Birdie
Savage Land
Solitary Confinement
Once on This Island

Music
National Symphony Orchestra
I Solisti di Zagreb
Evelyn Glennie
Misha Dichter and Cipa Dichter
Washington, D.C., Mozart Festival
Carmen Balthrop
Leontyne Price
Paris Winds with Pascal Rogé
Mahlathini & the Mohtella Queens
Dawn Upshaw

Opera
The Washington Opera - The Savage Land, The Flying Dutchman, Don Carlo, Don Giovanni

Dance
Ballet West
The Kirov Ballet
Stars Of The Bolshoi Ballet
David Parsons Dance Company
Pacific Northwest Ballet - American Gesture, Serious Pleasures

Special Events
Something New at the Kennedy Center
The Fourteenth Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Roy Acuff, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas, Gregory Peck, and Robert Shaw.

Kennedy Center Performances for Young Audiences: National Dance Institute

The Kennedy Center Tribute to Germany:
The Stuttgart Ballet
Berlin Cabaret
Dresden Staatskapelle
Windsbacher Knabenchor


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1992-93 Season

Theater
Marvin's Room
The Secret Garden
Ballet du Rhin
Guys and Dolls
Oleanna
The World Goes 'Round
Twilight of the Golds

Music
Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards
National Symphony Orchestra
Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Music of Benny Goodman
Dorothy Donegan
Musicians from Marlboro
The Sounds of Blackness
Evgeny Kissin
Pamela Frank
James Tocco
Christòpheren Nomura

Opera
The Washington Opera - Turandot, The Cunning Little Vixen, Otello, The Tsar's Bride, The Pearl Fishers, Don Pasquale, La Cenerentola

Dance
The National Ballet of Canada - Taming of the Shrew
Molissa Fenley
Mark Morris
The Joffrey Ballet - Nutcracker
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Company
Dance Theatre of Harlem

France Danse:
Plaisir d'Offrir/Michele Kelemenis
Copagnie de Hexe/Mathilde Monnier
Paris Opera Ballet
Compagnie Preljocaj
Compagnie Bagouet

Special Events
The Fifteenth Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Lionel Hampton, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ginger Rogers, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Paul Taylor.

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1993-94 Season
Theater
The Kentucky Cycle
The Lolly Foster Daredevil Airshow
Three Hotels
The Will Rogers Follies
Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect
The Sisters Rosensweig
The Winter's Tale
Miss Saigon
The Reduced Shakespeare Company

Music
National Symphony Orchestra
Desperados Steel Orchestra
The Guarneri Quartet
Orion Quartet
The Martin Williams Jazz Series
Maria Tipo
Barbara Cook
Paul Badura-Skoda
The Academy of Ancient Music
Cecelia Bartoli
Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center

Opera
The Washington Opera - Anna Bolena, Un Ballo in Maschera, Madama Butterfly, The Dream of Valentino, The Daughter of the Regiment

Dance
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Boston Ballet - In the Upper Room
Lewitzky Dance Company
The Royal Ballet
Dance Theatre of Harlem
San Francisco Ballet

Special Events
A Talk With Laurie Anderson
Light From Within, The Arts of Japan

The Sixteenth Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Johnny Carson, Arthur Mitchell, Georg Solti, Stephen Sondheim, and Marion Williams.


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1994-95 Season

Theater
Flyin' West
Black Nativity
Tommy
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Crazy for You
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Angels in America

Music
National Symphony Orchestra
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Washington Chamber Symphony
Julia Migenes
Aulos Ensemble with Julianne Baird
The Kennedy Center Messiah Sing-Along
Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers
A Cappella All-Stars
Wynton Marsalis
Mozart: A Summer Music Festival

Opera
The Washington Opera - The Bartered Bride

Dance
The Australian Ballet
Pennsylvania Ballet
Ghettoriginal Productions
American Ballet Theatre
Ballet National de Marseille Roland Petit
Young Uck-Kim Recital with Dance
Miami City Ballet

Special Events
The Kennedy Center Festival Australia:
Chamber Made Opera: Medea
Circus Oz
An Evening with Zoe Caldwell
Tjapukai Aboriginal Dance Company
Michael Kieran Harvey
Australian Films (AFI Theater)
Readings by Australian Authors (Library & Theater Lab)

The Seventeenth Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Kirk Douglas, Aretha Franklin, Morton Gould, Harold Prince, and Pete Seeger.

The Art of the Samurai: Flashing Swords and Fighting Kites

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1995-96 Season

Theater
Hello, Dolly!
Master Class
Three Tall Women
State Fair
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Nomathemba
Disney's Beauty and the Beast

Music
National Symphony Orchestra
Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival

Opera
The Washington Opera - Luisa Miller, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Der Rosenkavalier

Dance
America Dancing
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre
Suzanne Farrell Stages Balanchine
Martha Graham Dance Company
The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago
American Ballet Theatre

Special Events
The Eighteenth Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Jacques d'Amboise, Marilyn Horne, Riley B.B. King, Sidney Poitier, and Neil Simon.

The Kennedy Center 25th Anniversary Gala: A Salute to the Performing Arts

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1996-97 Season
Theater
Mrs. Klein
Damn Yankees
Golden Child
The King and I
Valley Song
The Phantom of the Opera

By Jeeves

Music
National Symphony Orchestra with Bobby McFerrin
National Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin

Opera
The Washington Opera - Il Guarany and La Boheme.

Dance
America Dancing
American Ballet Theatre - Romeo and Juliet.
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Garth Fagan Dance

Special Events
The Kennedy Center 25th Birthday Open House Arts Festival
The Nineteenth Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Edward Albee, Benny Carter, Johnny Cash, Jack Lemmon, and Maria Tallchief.

Millennium Stage - debuted March 1997


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1997-98 Season
Theater
Neil Simon's Proposals
Smokey Joe's Cafe
Dreamgirls
Brothers of the Knight
Showboat
Royal Shakespeare Company - Hamlet and Cymbeline

Music
A Celebration of America's Music - hosted by Bill Cosby.
NSO Caribbean Festival

Opera
The Washington Opera - Romeo and Juliette, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni.

Dance
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago
Tribute to the Solo
American Ballet Theatre - Coppélia, Pillar of Fire, Theme and Variations.

Special Events
Millennium Stage
The Kennedy Center Open House: A Salute to the Circus
The Twentieth Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, Charlton Heston, Jessye Norman, and Edward Villella.

The Kennedy Center Art of the State "Israel at 50: A Celebration of Statehood" Festival


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1998-1999 Season

Theater
The Captain's Tiger
The Magic Fire
Annie Get Your Gun
The Gin Game
Red, White and Tuna
The Reduced Shakespeare Company in The Complete Millennium Musical (Abridged)
Titanic

Music
National Symphony Orchestra
Duke Ellington 100th Anniversary
The Americanos Concert: A Celebration of Latin Music

Opera
The Washington Opera - Fedora, Samson et Dalila, Simon Boccanegra, Boris Godunov, Tristan und Isolde

Dance
American Ballet Theater - The Merry Widow, Fancy Free, Pillar of Fire, Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
The Stanislavsky Ballet -The Nutcracker, Swan Lake
Dance Theater of Harlem
Philadanco
Royal Swedish Ballet

Special Events
The Twenty-first Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Bill Cosby , John Kander & Fred Ebb, Willie Nelson, André Previn, and Shirley Temple (Black)

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1999-2000 Season

Theater
Side Man
Wit
Art
The Dinner Party

Music
National Symphony Orchestra
New Year's Eve with Billy Taylor and Friends
Leif Ove Andsnes, pianist
Dame Cleo Laine and the John Dankworth Group
Cho-Liang Lin and André Michel Schub
Miró String Quartet with violist Donald Weilerstein

Opera
The Washington Opera - Le Cid, Rigoletto, Susannah, Julius Caesar, Tosca, Otello, I Puritani
Martin Guerre

Dance
Suzanne Farrell Stages the Masters of 20th Century Ballet
American Ballet Theatre - Swan Lake, Variations on a Theme by Haydn
The Houston Ballet - Dracula
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
The Bolshoi Ballet - Romeo and Juliet,Don Quixote

Special Events
The Twenty-second Kennedy Center Honors Gala - Victor Borge, Sean Connery, Judith Jamison, Jason Robards, Stevie Wonder.

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