TV: NYMF Dance Preview

The New York Musical Theatre Festival, the flagship program of The National Music Theater Network,is the enormously popular three-week celebration that features the works of the newest generation of musical theatre writers and takes over midtown each fall with a slate of more than 30 full productions and some 100 special events, including readings, workshops, concerts, parties, seminars and master classes. BroadwayWorld.com brings you this sneak peek video of some of the dance offerings this year. Click below to watch!

Hailed as "the Sundance of Musical Theatre," NYMF was awarded the $100,000 Jujamcyn Theaters Prize for its "extraordinary contribution to the development of creative talent in the theater," and has, in three short years, presented a total of 99 new musicals, many of which have gone on to subsequent productions at Off-Broadway and regional theatres around the country.

Already this past season in New York, two musicals from past Festivals - The Big Voice: God or Merman (NYMF '04) and Gutenberg! The Musical (NYMF '06) - have played successful runs Off-Broadway, joining other transfers [Title of Show], Captain Louie, The Great American Trailer Park Musical and Shout the Mod Musical. Two more - Nerds://A Musical Software Satire and Meet John Doe - enjoyed a successful regional runs in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C, Party Come Here (NYMF '06) will be presented this summer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Tom Kitt's musical Feeling Electric (NYMF '05), now titled Next to Normal, will be presented at Second Stage Theatre's upcoming season. NYMF's 2004 hit Altar Boyz is now in its third year and recently celebrated its 1,000th performance Off-Broadway at New World Stages.