NIGHTTIME TRAFFIC Plays NYMF 9.28

Bistro Award winner Liz McCartney, recently seen in the Tony® Award winning musical South Pacific, joins the cast of Nighttime Traffic, a part of this season's New York Musical Theatre Festival. McCartney won the Backstage Bistro Award for her musical tribute to Rosemary Clooney, Rosemary & Time, and is best known for her work in Boy George's Tony nominated musical Taboo.
The new musical, with music, lyrics and book by Alex Wyse, will be directed by Michael Lluberes. Lluberes helmed The Boy in the Bathroom, the 2007 NYMF award winner for Most Promising New Musical. Performances begin September 28 at 8:00 p.m. at Urban Stages. The cast also features Matt Dengler (A Little Night Music) and Jacob Hoffman.

According to NYMF, "When Max and his boyfriend, Calder, find themselves in a hospital awaiting Calder's heart transplant, a nurse supplies them with a mind-altering pill that slows time, turning one minute into one hour. Fueled by a sweeping contemporary score, Nighttime Traffic follows three characters through a world of thumping music, altered perceptions and unanticipated inspiration as they spin minutes into moments and search for solace in unsettling times."

Performances are scheduled for September 28 at 8:00 p.m., September 29 at 4:30 and 8:00 p.m., October 2 at 8:00 p.m., October 3 at 1:00 p.m., October 5 at 4:30 p.m. and October 10 at 1:00 p.m. Tickets now on sale at www.nymf.org.

Now in its seventh year, the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) is the largest annual musical theatre event in America and is widely regarded as the essential source for new material and talent discovery. NYMF provides a launching pad for the next generation of musicals and their creators to ensure the continued vitality of one of America's greatest art forms. Hailed as the "Sundance of Musical Theatre," NYMF discovers, nurtures, and promotes promising musical theatre artists and producers at all stages of development, and inspires a diverse audience through vibrant, accessible, powerful new work.

NYMF is the flagship program of National Music Theater Network, Inc., a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization. NYMF 2010 is presented in association with BroadwayWorld.com, Production Resource Group, TheaterMania.com, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and is supported by AP-Red.com, Back Stage, Barnes and Noble, BroadwayBox.com, BroadwayInsider.com, Broadway.TV, Clear Channel Spectacolor, DFD-TV, King Displays, NASDAQ OMX, New World Stages, Next Magazine, PMD Promotions, The Port Authority of NY & NJ, Queerty.com, Season of Savings, Tekserve, Terra Fossil, Thomson Reuters, TheMenEvent.com, Times Square Squared, and Yelp. 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 Ariel Phinney, The Charlie & Jane Fink Charitable Fund, Cameron Mackintosh Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Spiritus Gladius Foundation, and The Theater League. NYMF is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

NYMF Memberships, which combine charitable contributions with valuable, flexible ticket packages and perks like early seating, and tickets to individual events are currently available for purchase at (212) 352-3101 or www.nymf.org. Single tickets for Festival events will go on sale September 1.

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