2008-2009 Season

Let Book-It take you on trips beyond borders, above the earth, across the seas, and over roads and prairies. Our 19th season opens with Tom Robbins’ 1976 country-crossing, counterculture favorite Even Cowgirls Get the Blues; Willa Cather’s reminiscence of turn-of-the-20th-century pioneer life in Nebraska, My Ántonia, follows; Herman Melville’s classic muscular story of the seas, Moby-Dick, or The Whale, plays in the winter; Dinaw Mengestu’s debut novel about contemporary immigrant experience in Washington, D.C., The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, (also the 2008 “Seattle Reads” book) will play in spring; and we close our season in June 2009 with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s early-aviation tale of the pioneering pilots in Argentina, Night Flight, to be performed at the Moore Theatre.

Season Tickets will go on sale May 6.

Read the announcment in The Seattle Times.

Book-It's upcoming season at a glance:

Mainstage productions

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, by Tom Robbins
September 16—October 12, 2008
Opening Night Friday, September 19

My Ántonia , by Willa Cather
November 25—December 21, 2008
Opening Night Saturday, November 29

Moby Dick, or The Whale, by Herman Melville
February 10—March 8, 2009
Opening Night Friday, February 13

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, by Dinaw Mengestu
April 14—May 9, 2009
Opening Night Friday, April 17

Night Flight, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
June 3—June 14, 2009
Opening Night Friday, June 5
(performed at the Moore Theatre)

Book-It All Over! productions

La Mariposa, by Francisco Jiménez
Tours: September - December
Grades: K-8

Chicken Sunday, by Patricia Polacco
Tours: January-April
Grades: K-8

The Jungle Books, by Rudyard Kipling
Tours: February - June
Grades: K-6

Danger! Books (books to be announced)
A Celebration of Intellectual Freedom (9th Annual Performance)
Tours: September-November
Grades: 6-Adult

Read all about it in our Press Release

Book-It's 2008-09 Season Announcement press release

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