Photo Coverage: Corbin Bleu, Jeremy Kushnier et al. Backstage at the NYMF Preview Performance!

Yesterday morning, July 3rd, New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) presented a special preview of the 2012 featuring musical selections from: Rio, Stand Tall, Himself & Nora, Trouble, Stealing Time, Arnie the Doughnut, Foreverman, A Letter to Harvey Milk and The Groove Factory.

Now in its ninth 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. For more about the festival, visit www.nymf.org.

Photo credit: Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

Corbin Bleu

Isaac Robert Hurwitz and Corbin Bleu

Corbin Bleu

Natalie Toro

Tom Deckman

Adam Arian

Danny Quadrino

Jeremy Kushnier

Kim Sozzi

Leslie Kritzer

Jeremy Kushnier

Corbin Bleu

Leslie Kritzer

Natalie Toro

Kim Sozzi

Danny Quadrino

Kim Sozzi with Nathaly Lopez, David James Boyd, Colleen Longshawand "The Groove Factory" Company

Jeremy Kushnier and "Stealing Time" Company

Adam Arian and Tom Deckman

Adam Arian, Tom Deckman and Frances Limoncelli

Jef Canter, Trista Dollison, Jill Shackner and Gerard Canonico

"Zapata's" Natalie Toro, Julie Mille (General Manager) and Elizabeth Lucas (Director)

Corbin Bleu and Jeremy Kushnier

Omar Lopez-Cepero and Adam Monley

Adam Monley, Omar Lopez-Cepero, Leslie Kritzer and Corbin Bleu

Omar Lopez-Cepero, Adam Monley, Corbin Bleu and Jeremy Kushnier

Leslie Kritzer and Corbin Bleu