Testa, Colella, Pollock, Predovic Set For ALL FALL DOWN At 45th Street Theatre, Opens 10/9

Mary Testa, two time Tony Award® nominee ("42nd Street", "On the Town") and Drama Desk nominee ("Xanadu"), Jenn Colella ("High Fidelity", "Urban Cowboy"), Charlie Pollock ("9 to 5", "Urinetown") and Casey Predovic star in the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) production "All Fall Down", with musical staging by Josh Rhodes (Assistant Choreographer, "The Drowsy Chaperone") and direction by Lonny Price ("A Class Act") and Matt Cowart (Assistant Director, "110 in the Shade").

This new musical, with book by Greg Turner and music and lyrics by Selda Sahin, examines golden boy Ben Little as he heads off to college. But his family's perfect world falls apart when he inexplicably jumps from the window of his sixth story dorm room. Astonishingly surviving the fall, Ben returns home where nobody will talk about what happened, afraid to ask the questions that could tear apart their routine lives. "All Fall Down" is a journey that weaves past, present, fantasy and reality in comedic and heartrending episodes as Ben's story unfolds and the Littles try to find their way back to the family they once were.

The show runs at the 45th Street Theatre, 354 West 45th Street in New York City, on Friday, October 9th, 2009 at 8:00 pm, Saturday, October 10th, 2009 at 1:00 pm, Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at 4:30 pm, Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at 8:00 pm, Saturday, October 17th, 2009 at 1:00 pm and closes on Sunday, October 18th, 2009 at 4:30 pm. Tickets will be available beginning September 1 by calling (212) 352-3101 or by visiting http://www.nymf.org or http://www.allfalldownthemusical.com.

"All Fall Down" is an official selection of The New York Musical Theatre Festival's 2009 Next Link Project. The Next Link Project empowers emerging musical theatre writing teams as both artists and entrepreneurs by providing the training and relationships needed to help them move their musicals from mere readings to fully-realized productions and to advance their careers by maximizing the exposure they receive in the Festival.

NYMF is the flagship program of National Music Theater Network, Inc., a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization. NYMF 2009 is presented in association with BroadwayWorld.com, Production Resource Group and TheaterMania.com, and is supported by Back Stage, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, BroadwayBox.com, BroadwayInsider.com, Broadway.TV, Clear Channel Spectacolor, DFD-TV, Frank & Camille's Fine Pianos, King Displays, Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, New World Stages, NASDAQ OMX, Next Magazine, PMD Promotions, Queerty.com, Reuters, Sweet Caroline's, Tekserve, TheMenEvent.com, The Tank, and Times Square Squared. Major supporters include The ASCAP Foundation, BMI Foundation, Inc., The Broadway League, The BWF Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation with the support and encouragement of Jamie Mayer, The Charlie & Jane Fink Charitable Fund, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and The Theater League. NYMF is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. NYMF's programs are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Photo credit Linda Lenzi