A reception at New York's Marseilles was held on September 27th to celebrate The National Alliance for Musical Theatre's 17th Annual Festival of New Musicals, which was held for an invited audience of NAMT members and other theatre industry professionals on September 25th and 26th.The eight musicals included in the festival, as part of the New Works Program, were Robert Taylor and Richard Oberacker's Ace, starring Christiane Noll and Adam Monley; Marsha Norman, Beth Blatt and Jenny Giering's Caraboo, Princess of Javasu, starring Celia Keenan-Bolger and Andrew Lippa; Lee Summers and Ben Blake's The Funkentine Rapture, starring Billy Porter and Marva Hicks; Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman's I Love You Because, starring Stephanie D'Abruzzo; Andrew Lippa and Brian Crawley's A Little Princess, starring Will Chase and Julia Murney; Andrew Gerle and Eddie Sugarman's Meet John Doe, starring Michael Rupert and Donna Lynne Champlin; Daniel Goldfarb and David Kirshenbaum's Party Come Here starring Hunter Foster, Terrence Mann and Megan Hilty; and Cheri Coons and Chuck Larkin's River's End, starring Matt Farsnworth and Jodie Langel.For more information, visit www.namt.net.The Funkentine Rapture's Lee Summers, Jo Lynn Burks, and Dion GrahamJosh Rhodes, Lorin Latarro, David Hamlin, and Anastasia BarzeeNAMT Executive Director Kathy Evans, Lydia Wagner, Derek Collard, composer/lyricist Lance Horne, and Tiger MartinezSummers and EvansJamie and Joshua Salzman, Meghan Blaskowitz, and I Love You Because's Ryan CunninghamNora Brennan, composer/lyricist Brian Lowdermilk, and Lauren StevensJoshua Finkel, composer/producer Scott Alan, and Jayson RaittEvans, Party Come Here's Daniel Goldfarb, and River's End's Cheri CoonsChan Harris, Julie Foldesi, and Jacob TothMeet John Doe's Andrew Gerle and Eddie Sugarman, and The Funkentine Rapture's SummersAce's Richard Oberacker and Rob Taylor, and David HamlinRick Boynton, New Works Program Director Meredith McDonough, and SugarmanEvans and McDonoughDeborah Taylor, Coons and Lee Sankowich