Robert O. and Elizabeth M. Bentley Musical

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 60’s Musical
• 2022: tick, tick...BOOM!
• 2021: Little Women, the Broadway Musical 
• 2020: Considering Matthew Shepard
• 2018: Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical
• 2017: The Addams Family, A New Musical and Theory of Relativity
• 2016: Legally Blonde
• 2015: Monty Python’s 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