Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival to Team with Kodak Center for New Summer Season

The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival announced today that it has entered into a long-term partnership with the Kodak Center for Performing Arts to present a summer season of Broadway style family entertainment.

The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival is headquartered in Auburn, N.Y. and its 2014 season includes the smash hits, Mary Poppins, Damn Yankees, On the Town, The Will Rogers Follies, Church Basement Ladies (The Last Potluck Supper) and Menopause: The Musical. After each show finishes its scheduled Auburn run, it will immediately transfer to the Kodak Center for Performing Arts where the production will run for one additional week.

"This is the kind of inter-regionAl Cooperation that is going to be crucial in leveraging the arts to help bring about the resurgence of the upstate economy," said Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Producing Artistic Director Ed Sayles. "With that in mind, how fitting that this new enterprise will launch at a site noted for innovation and forward thinking."

Jim Vollertsen, president and CEO of Rochester Association for Performing Arts states, "We could not have found a better partner to help us establish the Kodak Center for Performing Arts as the premier arts center in Western New York."

Under the guidance of Sayles, the Festival has grown from a single venue - the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Emerson Park - to three venues running concurrently in Auburn traditionally from mid-May to October. The Festival is the largest producing musical theatre organization in New York State outside of New York City.

For more information, visit www.fingerlakesMTF.com.