New York Musical Theatre Festival News

On Sunday, December 4th at 7 PM, THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL will have its final performance at Dodger Stages…unless there is a dramatic increase in business. The show began performances on August 20 and will have played 121 performances by this Sunday's evening performance. A National Tour is in the works, as are productions in London and Las Vegas; with a cast album to be released in mid-December.

A 25% increase in audience attendance occurred between the New York Musical Theatre Festivals held in 2004 and 2005

You can now see clips from The Great American Trailer Park Musical here on BroadwayWorld.com!

Amanda Green and Tom Kitt have invited a few extra-special friends to join in the musical naughtiness when they Play with Themselves at Birdland (315 W. 44th St.) on Monday, October 17th at 7pm.

Drama Dept. (Douglas Carter Beane, Artistic Director and Michael S. Rosenberg, Executive Director) and The Zipper are pleased to announce the first of three co-productions: a revival of Patrick Hamilton's 1929 thriller, ROPE.

On October 17th, Amanda Green and Tom Kitt, of the upcoming musical High Fidelity, will 'Play with Themselves' at Birdland

Mamma Mia! star and MAC Award-winner Karen Mason will perform at the Encore from October 27th through November 7th

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL presents a reading of BUMP IN THE ROAD, a new musical with book, music and lyrics by CAROLE LONNER, on Thursday, September 29th at 3 and 7 PM at Makor, 35 West 67th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue.

Orphan Train's L.E. McCullough discusses the history--and personal history--tying into his new musical

Isabelle and the Pretty Ugly Spell will continue its off-Broadway run, as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, through October 2nd

Leading ladies such as Liz Callaway, Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Leah Hocking will headline two pre-Broadway industry readings of the revue Oh, What a Lovely War! on September 26th and 27th

Timothy Huang converses with friend David Grimm on his new musical The View From Here

The musical drama Orphan Train will run at the New York Musical Theatre Festival through October 1st

The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World's librettist Joy Gregory talks about the philosophy of the (in)famous band and the new musical

Peter Hilliard and Matt Boresi take us backstage of Don Imbroglio, one of this year's NYMF offerings

IT CAME FROM BEYOND is set in the 1950s and tells the story of a group of high school kids who go mad for a new comic book called IT CAME FROM BEYOND.

The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre is joining forces with the unlikeliest of bedfellows - The NY Musical Theatre Festival. In an effort to prove that musical theatre can be both funny and hip at the same time, the NYMF and UCBT have created The Musical Comedy Series.

Rob Evan has been cast as King Solomon in the musical Sheba, which will receive staged readings by the Amas Six O'Clock Musical Theatre Lab as part of the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival

people like Us, a new musical by Todd Almond and Gus Kaikkonen, will be featured this month during the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Matt Bogart, recently seen on Broadway as Radames in AIDA and in Smokey Joe's Café, will star in the production opposite fellow University of Cincinnati - College Conservatory of Music graduate Pamela Bob.