Photo Flash: NYMF's Smoking Bloomberg

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and AnyMinuteNow Productions will present the New York premiere of Smoking Bloomberg, a raucous musical comedy with book, music and lyrics by David Cornue, Sam Holtzapple, Warren Loy and Chris Todd.  Directed by John Ruocco, the show will play a strictly-limited, six-performance engagement as part of the third annual New York Musical Theatre Festival.  Performances begin on Wednesday, September 13th at The Theatre at St. Clements (423 West 46th Street); the show will run through September 24th.

Smoking Bloomberg "is a musical satire about a Korean dry cleaner's quest for revenge against Mayor Bloomberg and the smoking ban that has ruined her business.  Full of pissed-off New Yorkers, rich white guys, and potential WMDs, the show offers a biting, irreverent lampoon of American democracy and the individual's place within it," according to press notes.  The cast includes Davis Duffield, Christopher Guilmet, Anthony Holds, Edward Juvier (Les Miserables), Francis Kelly, Doan MacKenzie (You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown; The King And I), Jihyen Park (Miss Saigon, The King and I) in the lead role of Kim, Blair Ross (42nd Street), Debargo Sanyal, Tina Stafford, Bronwyn Stayoch and Matt Witten.

For more information and tickets (beginning Sept. 1), visit www.NYMF.org.

Photos by Sam Holtzapple

Jihyen Park

Jihyen Park