Photo Coverage: Matt Bogart, Natalie Toro, Jeremy Kushnier et al. Perform at NYMF Preview!

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 Milkand The Groove Factory.

The event, hosted by GODSPELL's Corbin Bleu, featured Isaac Robert Hurwitz, Leslie Kritzer, Matt Bogart, Natalie Toro, Jeremy Kushnier, Tom Deckman, Adam Monley, Danny Quadrino, Jennifer Wren, J. Manuel Santos and more. BroadwayWorld was there and brings you photos of the performances below!

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.

For more photos from the event, click here!

Photo credit: Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival

Isaac Robert Hurwitz

Corbin Bleu

Matt Bogart "Himself & Nora"

Matt Bogart and Jessica Burrows "Himself & Nora"

Matt Bogart "Himself & Nora"

Jessica Burrows "Himself & Nora"

Matt Bogart and Jessica Burrows "Himself & Nora"

J. Manuel Santos with the cast of "RIO"

Tanesha Ross and J. Manuel Santos "RIO"

J. Manuel Santos

J. Manuel Santos with the cast of "RIO"

J. Manuel Santos "RIO"

Nicholas Gonzales, Mercedes Ruiz and Jose Candelaria with the cast of "RIO"

J. Manuel Santos "RIO"

Jane Blass, Stephanie Fittro and Jennifer Wren "Arnie The Doughnut"

Tom Deckman "Arnie The Doughnut"

Tom Deckman with Jane Blass, Stephanie Fittro and Jennifer Wren "Arnie The Doughnut"

Trista Dollison and Jill Shackner "Stand Tall"

Jill Shackner "Stand Tall"

Trista Dollison "Stand Tall"

Trista Dollison and Jill Shackner "Stand Tall"

Trista Dollison "Stand Tall"

Jill Shackner "Stand Tall"

Trista Dollison and Jill Shackner "Stand Tall"

Natalie Toro "Zapata"

Danny Quadrino "Trouble"

Company "Trouble"

Danny Quadrino "Trouble"

Jeremy Kushnier "Stealing Time"

Leslie Kritzer "A Letter To Harvey Milk"

Adam Monley and Omar Lopez-Cepero "Foreverman"

Omar Lopez-Cepero "Foreverman"

Adam Monley "Foreverman"

Omar Lopez-Cepero "Foreverman"

Adam Monley and Omar Lopez-Cepero "Foreverman"

Kim Sozzi with Nathaly Lopez and Colleen Longshaw "The Groove Factory"

Kim Sozzi with Nathaly Lopez, Colleen Longshaw and David James Boyd "The Groove Factory"

Kim Sozzi with Nathaly Lopez and Colleen Longshaw "The Groove Factory"

Kim Sozzi "The Groove Factory"

Kim Sozzi "The Groove Factory

Kim Sozzi with Nathaly Lopez and Colleen Longshaw "The Groove Factory"

Kim Sozzi with Nathaly Lopez, Colleen Longshaw and David James Boyd "The Groove Factory"

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As a 14 year old youth, Walter was transfixed by his first Broadway Show, the original production of 'GREASE'. His Journey to celebrity photojournalism began that fateful night. Meeting, photographing and getting to know the cast inspired him to spend his professional life doing what he loved. Walter moved to Manhattan and for a leading role as a Photographer & Photo Researcher. Currently headlining in New Jersey with his partner Richard and family members Dali (Jack Russell) & Gala (Schnoodle). Recently he made his Broadway debut sharing the stage with Hugh Jackman in 'Hugh Jackman on Broadway' as well as receiving the Actors' Equity Association Gypsy Spirit Award. Walter McBride Photography is syndicated worldwide by Corbis/AP.

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