HAMILTON's Sydney James Harcourt and Elizabeth Judd will Headline Dallas Theatre Center's CENTERSTAGE 2017

Dallas Theater Center announced today that Hamilton: An American Musical stars Sydney James Harcourt and Elizabeth Judd will headline Centerstage 2017: Revolution and Revelry on Saturday, May 6. Chaired by Mickie and Jeff Bragalone, with Honorary Chairs Linda and Bill Custard, Centerstage 2017 will take place at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, which will be transformed for the evening.

Centerstage is DTC's annual fundraising event that supports DTC's innovative artistic programming- with fresh takes on classics like Electra and world-premiere musicals such as Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure -as well as award-winning education programs like Project Discovery.

This year DTC will present the inaugural Linda and Bill Custard Award, an annual award given to a person who has shown a sustained and profound commitment to American Theater and allowed DTC to further its mission. This person may be an artist, staff member, trustee, donor, educator, advocate, volunteer, or philanthropic representative. The inaugural award will be presented to Linda and Bill Custard.

"We are thrilled to chair Revolution and Revelry, a celebration of Dallas Theater Center's commitment to innovative groundbreaking programming, artist growth, community outreach and arts education," said Mickie Bragalonge. "It will be an evening to remember as we welcome two stars of one of the most acclaimed and influential works on Broadway in decades. Before starring in Hamilton, Harcourt and Judd wowed audiences from the Dallas Theater Center stage and we are honored to have them back to raise awareness and support for DTC."

Audiences will remember Harcourt from playing the title role in DTC's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, as well as the Tin Man in DTC's The Wiz. Judd returns to DTC after she played the role of Eponine in DTC's summer blockbuster Les Miserables. Both have gone on to continue their careers in New York, including roles in the critically-acclaimed hit Hamilton.Harcourt and Judd will bring a piece of Hamilton to DTC, performing select songs from the show.

Centerstage 2017 will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a cocktail hour, followed by a seated dinner, a special performance from Harcourt and Judd and an after party with DJ Spinderella.

Individual tickets for Centerstage 2017 are $1,000 and underwriting levels start at $2,500. Individual After-Party only tickets are $175. Regardless of whether you attend the event, anyone can participate in the Centerstage 2017 Hamilton raffle that includes two tickets to Hamilton at the Richard Rodgers Theater in New York City, with special post-show backstage access, round trip airfare and two nights in a luxury hotel. Tickets are $100 each or six tickets for $500.

All tickets can be purchased online at www.dallastheatercenter.org/centerstage.

ABOUT Dallas Theater Center:

One of the leading regional theaters in the country, Dallas Theater Center (DTC) performs to an audience of more than 100,000 North Texas residents annually. Founded in 1959, DTC is now a resident company of the AT&T Performing Arts Center and presents its Mainstage season at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, designed by REX/OMA, Joshua Prince-Ramus and Rem Koolhaas and at its original home, the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the only freestanding theater designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright. DTC is one of only two theaters in Texas that is a member of the League of Resident Theatres, the largest and most prestigious non-profit professional theater association in the country. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty and Managing Director Jeffrey Woodward, DTC produces a seven-play subscription series of classics, musicals and new plays and an annual production of A Christmas Carol; extensive education programs, including the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award-winning Project Discovery, SummerStage and partnerships with Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and South Oak Cliff High School; and community collaboration efforts with the Sixth Floor Museum, the City of Dallas, North Texas Food Bank, the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Public Library, Dallas Holocaust Museum, Dallas Opera, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, and leading the DFW Foote Festival. Throughout its history, DTC has produced many new works, including The Texas Trilogyby Preston Jones in 1978, Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, adapted by Adrian Hall, in 1986, and recent premieres of Deferred Action by Lee Trull and David Lozano, Clarkston by Samuel D. Hunter; Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical by Robert Horn, BRandy Clark, and Shane McAnally; FLY by Rajiv Joseph, Bill Sherman and Kirsten Childs; Fly by Night by Kim Rosenstock, Michael Mitnick and Will Connolly; Giant by Michael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson; The Trinity River Plays by ReGina Taylor; the revised It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Charles Strouse and Lee Adams; Give It Up! (now titled Lysistrata Jones and recently on Broadway) by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn; Sarah, Plain and Tall by Julia Jordan, Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin; and The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson. Dallas Theater Center gratefully acknowledges the support of our season sponsors: Texas Instruments, American Airlines, Lexus, City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Time Warner Cable and WFAA. For more information visit www.DallasTheaterCenter.org

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