Mass

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents Leonard Bernstein's "Mass," a theatre piece for singers, players and dancers, texts from the liturgy of the Roman mass, English texts by Stephen Schwartz and Leonard Bernstein, created for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, choreography by Alvin Ailey, settings by Oliver Smith, costumes by Frank Thompson, lighting by Gilbert Hemsley, Jr. musical director Maurice Peress, with Alan Titus, the original Celebrant alternating in the role with David Cryer, the Norman Scribner Choir, the Berkshire Boys' Choir, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, production coordinator Diana Shumlin, directed by Gordon Davidson, produced by Roger L. Stevens and Martin Feinstein, associate producer Schuyler G. Chapin.