Photo Coverage: NYMF Celebrates 15th Annual Opening Night!
The New York Musical Festival, which nurtures the creation, production, and public presentation of stylistically, thematically, and culturally diverse new musicals to ensure the future vitality of musical theatre, celebrated its opening night last night, July 9.
This year, the Festival will take place through August 5 at The Acorn Theatre @ Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd Street); The Studio Theatre @ Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd Street); and The Green Room 42 @ YOTEL (570 10th Avenue). Click here for a preview of some of this year's selections!
Now in its fifteenth year, the Festival is the premier musical theater event in the world. The preeminent site for launching new musicals and discovering new talent, the Festival provides an affordable platform for artists to mount professional productions that reach their peers, industry leaders, and musical theater fans. More than 90 Festival shows have gone on to productions on and Off-Broadway, in regional theaters in all 50 states, and in more than 20 countries worldwide. Festival alumni have received a wide array of awards including the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2013, NYMF received a special Drama Desk Award in recognition of its work "creating and nurturing new musical theater, ensuring the future of this essential art form."
Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski
PEDRO PAN
Ben West (LIVING HISTORY)
IF SAND WERE STONE
GIRL FROM NOWHERE
SATURDAYS
WHAT'S YOUR WISH
BAD ASS BEAUTY: THE ROCK OPERA
SONATA 1962
WONDER BOI
THE CIVILITY OF ALBERT CASHIER
BRAD KNOWS NOTHING
PETER, WHO?
'68: A NEW AMERICAN MUSICAL
BETWEEN THE SEA AND SKY
BREAKING GROUND
FATTY FATTY NO FRIENDS
DEFY YOUR EXPECTATIONS
EMOJILAND
Yuri Worontschak (ILLUMINATI LIZARDS FROM OUTER SPACE)
VICTORY TRAIN
THE GUNFIGHTER MEETS HIS MATCH
LEGACY THE MUSICAL
MYTHOS: THE CRIMSON CHORUS
HEALING RETREAT: A LIFE OF JOY
Carrie Dubois-Shaw, Emma Osmundson, Dan Markley, Beatriz Westby, Rachel Sussman
INTERSTATE
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