Robert O. and Elizabeth M. Bentley Musical 2024 Bentley Musical: "Dido & Aeneas"
The Robert O. and Elizabeth M. Bentley Endowment for the Performing Arts was established in 2004 by a gift from Mrs. Bentley to enable Washington and Lee to present a major musical or operatic production at the Lenfest Center annually or to support other facets of the performing arts in years when such a production is not feasible.
Through the generosity of the Bentley Endowment, the Departments of Music and Theater, Dance and Film Studies will present the Bentley Opera, Dido & Aeneas, Winter of 2024.
Bentley Musicals/Opera include:
2024: Bentley Opera: Dido & Aeneas
2023: BEEHIVE the 60s musical
2022: tick, tick...BOOM!
2021: LITTLE WOMEN, the Broadway Musical
2020: Considering Matthew Shepard
2018: PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT the musical
2017 Fall: The Addams Family, A New Musical
2017: Theory of Relativity
2016: Legally Blonde
2015: Monty Pythons Spamalot
2014: Mr. Cauliflower Will Be At Home
2012: Bye Bye Birdie
2011: Cabaret
2010: Chicago and Assassins
2009: The Secret Garden
2008: Little Shop of Horrors
2007: Kiss Me, Kate
2006: Pirates of Penzance
2005: A Blossoming of the Arts