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Below, you'll find a wrap-up of all the latest news, including articles and stories uploaded both by the NYMF staff and by the Festival shows themselves. Enjoy!
2008 NEXT LINK SELECTIONS ARE HERE!
Posted by NYMF on 4:14 pm May 5th, 2008
We are pleased to announce the first 12 new musicals selected for this year’s fifth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival! Drum roll, please...
NYMF LOVES ROCK AND ROLL!
Posted by NYMF on 4:18 pm May 5th, 2008
NYMF’s second annual “Broadway Battle of the Bands”, a one-night only “Broadway Bandapalooza” competition, features performers, whose roots are onstage and in the orchestra pits of several Broadway musicals – coming together for a special concert at The Zipper Factory, 336 West 37th Street in Manhattan, Saturday, May 17 at 10:30!
NYMF, WE HAVE A LIFTOFF!
Posted by NYMF on 5:35 pm Apr 22nd, 2008
NYMF 2007's The Last Starfighter, Fred Landau and Walter Edgar Kennon's sci-fi musical, will be seen in the upcoming Village Theatre's First Stage Season as part of its Spring Village Originals Workshop. The Village Theatre is located in Issaquah, WA,in Washington; the production will be presented on May 23-25.
Broadway – Here They Come!
Posted by NYMF on 5:06 pm Apr 11th, 2008
The hit of the innaugural New York Musical Theatre Festival, [title of show] will officially open at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre on July 16. The production will re-unite the original NYMF cast (who also played the roles off-Broadway): Jeff Bowen, Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, and musical director Larry Pressgrove (writer of Angle of the Sun, NYMF 2007). Direction and choreography will again be by Michael Berresse.
Next Step for Next to Normal
Posted by NYMF on 4:09 pm Apr 11th, 2008
Next to Normal, the Tom Kitt-Brian Yorkey musical that started as Feeling Electric in the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival, and recently played an extended engagement at Off-Broadway's Second Stage, will be part of the 2008-2009 season at Arena Stage in Arlington, Virginia.
Show News
NYMF LOVES ROCK AND ROLL!
Posted by on 5:39 pm May 5th, 2008
Read all about Broadway Battle of the Bands on BroadwayWorld!
CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR "MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS"
Posted by on 12:04 pm Mar 4th, 2008
Stacie Bono, Alison Cimmet, Joseph Mahowald and Tally Sessions will feature in the presentations of MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS, while will be seen in a series of free staged readings at the TBG Theatre from March 21 through March 29.
New York is Alive and Singing
Posted by on 10:28 am Jan 14th, 2008
By Laura Hedli
from The Columbia Sepectator, JANUARY 13, 2008
Taking the temperature of a city in the early days of this election year, Paul Scott Goodman is bringing his production, Alive in the World, to the New York stage.
BROADWAY BULLET - Maria's NYMF 2007 Blog
Posted by on 3:24 am Oct 24th, 2007
Petite Rouge Gives Little Red a Much Needed Makeover - Sunday, October 7, 2007
Connecting Acadiana: The Daily Advertiser
Posted by on 7:54 am Oct 14th, 2007
'Cajun Riding Hood' now a New York City musical
NYMF Press
Trial and Error: The Hunt for Usable Musicals
Posted by NYMF on 10:49 am Oct 19th, 2007
New York Times, September 29, 2007
By Anne Midgette
Around the turn of this century, there was much talk of the new face of American musical theater: serious, boundary-defying works by the likes of Adam Guettel, Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael John LaChiusa. But it remains hard to get a musical developed and put on.
Roll Model: Musical Theater Fest Packs a Mix of Songs & Styles
Posted by NYMF on 10:02 am Oct 19th, 2007
Newsday, September 15, 2007
By Frank Scheck
QUICK question: What do upcoming musicals inspired by such disparate sources as Jane Austen, Hanukkah, the Latin poems of Catullus, roller derby, Sherlock Holmes, the murder spree of Charlie Starkweather, Jack the Ripper, and the sci-fi movie “The Last Starfighter” have in common?
NY Theater Fest Thinking Big
Posted by NYMF on 10:52 am Oct 19th, 2007
Variety, August 10, 2007
By Mark Blankenship
Now that it's grown up, the New York Musical Theater Festival is trying to grow out.
