
Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences One week left to get your tickets for Barrio Grrrl! (running through November 15th). Check out this review and visit http://www.kennedy-center.org for ticket information.
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Think of Barrio Grrrl! as the little sister to Broadway’s In the Heights.

Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences Here's a sneak peak at the Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe set designed by Dan Conway! The show opens December 5th in the Family Theater. Visit: http://www.kennedy-center.org to buy your ticket today!

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Special Offer: $12 tickets to see Barrio Grrrl! (Now through November 15th)
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Spunky 9-year-old Ana and her imaginary friend, Amazing Voice, dedicate their lives to saving the barrio in this Kennedy Center commission by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony nominee Quiara Alegrí...

Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences Check out the review of Barrio Grrrl! in the Washington Post
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Let's hope there are 401(k) plans for imaginary friends. After all, their careers don't last forever, as Quiara Alegría Hudes reminds us in her gentle, witty children's musical "Barrio Grrrl!," now making its world premiere at the John F. ...

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Images from the new Kennedy Center-commissioned musical for young audiences "Barrio Grrrl!" (Book and Lyrics by Quiara Alegría Hudes, Music by Bill Sherman, Directed by Peter Flynn, Choreographed by Devanand Janki), playing in the Kennedy Center Family Theater Oct. 24-Nov. 15, 2009. The show features Natascia Diaz, Ana... Nogueira, Erika Rose, Vishal Vaidya, and Chris Wilson. Photos by Carol Pratt. The music is a song from the show called "Change the World."Read More

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Barrio Grrrl!
World Premiere: October 24, 2009
(l-r) Natascia Diaz as The Amazing Voice, Ana Nogueira as Ana, Vishal Vaidya as Sandip, Erika Rose as Odette, Chris Wilson as Oscar. Photo credit: Carol Pratt.

Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences Barrio Grrrl article- Opening is this Saturday, October 24th at 5pm!
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
In January 1991, Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers" opened in a pre-Broadway run at the National Theatre. The Post's chief drama critic at the time, Lloyd Rose, began her mixed-to-negative review ...

Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences Barrio Grrrl press- Interview with the lead, Ana Nogueira.
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An inventive children's' musical commissioned by the Kennedy Center opens next weekend. "Barrio Grrrl!," a book by Quiara Alegria Hudes who wrote the award-winning "In the Heights," is about a spunky 9-year-old girl named Ana. "Ana is being raised by her grandfa

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The Kennedy Center has chosen the new works to be shown at the New Visions/New Voices 2010 Festival. They are: The Flea and the Professor, The Scarecrow and His Servant; Don't Tell Me I Can't Fly; Promised Land of Balalatladi; The Epic of Sunjata; The Very True and Unusual Life of Chook; and the The Edge of Peace. Cong...ratulations!!!
For more information, please go to our website at http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/ nvnv.html.Read More
For more information, please go to our website at http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/
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New Visions/New Voices is a biennial national working forum for plays-in-progress for young audiences.

Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences Chasing George Washington...the BOOK...is available at the Kennedy Center Gift Shop. The book is based on our past production and is now touring the country.
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Kennedy Center Online Gift Shop: Dee, José, and Annie are touring the White House when they accidentally knock an old painting of George Washington off the wall - and the first president escapes! As they race to put him back, the three meet other famous people who lived in the White House. ...

Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences An interview with Barrio Grrrl! playwright, Quiara Hudes.
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Tony-nominated playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes ("In the Heights") discusses her new musical for young audiences commissioned by the Kennedy Center. "Barrio Grrrl!" premieres in the Kennedy Center Family Theater, October 24-November 15, 2009.

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It sounds so simple, just a quick trip to the Laundromat
with Daddy, Trixie, and her beloved Knuffl e Bunny. But,
before you know it things go horribly, hilariously wrong.
Chock full of adventure, song, and gigantic dancing
laundry, Knuffl e Bunny: A Cautionary Musical tells a
tale of fi rsts: a stuffed animal’s fi rst trip... in the laundry, a
little girl’s fi rst words, and a Daddy’s fi rst time dealing
with his child going “boneless.” Based on his beloved
Caldecott Honor–winning picture book, six-time Emmy
Award winner Mo Willems joins Grammy Award®–
winning composer Michael Silversher to lovingly
celebrate the heart and heartache that can only
come from a family visit to the local Laundromat. We
mentioned the giant dancing laundry, right?Read More
with Daddy, Trixie, and her beloved Knuffl e Bunny. But,
before you know it things go horribly, hilariously wrong.
Chock full of adventure, song, and gigantic dancing
laundry, Knuffl e Bunny: A Cautionary Musical tells a
tale of fi rsts: a stuffed animal’s fi rst trip... in the laundry, a
little girl’s fi rst words, and a Daddy’s fi rst time dealing
with his child going “boneless.” Based on his beloved
Caldecott Honor–winning picture book, six-time Emmy
Award winner Mo Willems joins Grammy Award®–
winning composer Michael Silversher to lovingly
celebrate the heart and heartache that can only
come from a family visit to the local Laundromat. We
mentioned the giant dancing laundry, right?Read More
A new musical based on Mo Willems’s Caldecott Honor-winning book!
Time:7:30PM Saturday, May 8th
Location:Family Theater

Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences
Will the kids in the White House get a Christmas Tree? Wouldn't Ethel, Kermit and Archie like to know! What they do know is that they want one badly, but their dad, President Teddy Roosevelt, doesn't think chopping down a tree sets a good example of conservation for the nation. His answer is "no," but that's one execut...ive order these kids aren't going to obey. Inspired by Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, playwright Tom Isbell and political satirist/songwriter Mark Russell re-team to settle the score in a presidential musical that can't be missed.Read More
Holiday sequel to the 2006 hit Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major
Time:5:00PM Saturday, December 5th
Location:Family Theater

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Spunky 9-year-old Ana is faced with a very big
decision. On the one hand, as her alter-ego
Barrio Grrrl with her invisible sidekick Amazing
Voice, she’s pretty busy preserving justice in
the barrio and protecting her neighborhood.
On the other hand, in the world where Ana
lives with her abuelo (grandfather) and misses
her mom... who is far, far away in Iraq, reality is
sneaking up on her. It’s time for Ana to decide
what’s most important: being a superhero
or a girl who works little miracles in real life.
Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award® nominee
Quiara Alegría Hudes (In the Heights) and
Grammy®-winning music director for PBS’s new
Electric Company Bill Sherman give audiences
a funny and warmly truthful play that will make
hearts sing.Read More
decision. On the one hand, as her alter-ego
Barrio Grrrl with her invisible sidekick Amazing
Voice, she’s pretty busy preserving justice in
the barrio and protecting her neighborhood.
On the other hand, in the world where Ana
lives with her abuelo (grandfather) and misses
her mom... who is far, far away in Iraq, reality is
sneaking up on her. It’s time for Ana to decide
what’s most important: being a superhero
or a girl who works little miracles in real life.
Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award® nominee
Quiara Alegría Hudes (In the Heights) and
Grammy®-winning music director for PBS’s new
Electric Company Bill Sherman give audiences
a funny and warmly truthful play that will make
hearts sing.Read More
A girl, who fancies herself a superhero, wishes she could save every broken heart in el barrio, although she probably needs a little saving herself.
Time:5:00PM Saturday, October 24th
Location:Family Theater






























