Photo Coverage: NYMF Gala Honors Kelli O'Hara!

Guests included: Matthew Broderick (Nice Work If You Can Get It, The Producers), Tony Danza (“Who’s The Boss”), James Naughton (Chicago), Kelli O’Hara (Nice Work If You Can Get It, South Pacific), Anthony Rapp (Rent), Sherie Rene Scott (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Peter Cincotti (How Deep Is The Ocean?), Susan Blackwell ([title of show]), Kathleen Marshall (Nice Work If You Can Get It, The Pajama Game), Tom Kitt (Next To Normal), Greg Naughton (Founder: Blue Light Theater Company), Santino Fontana (Cinderella), Stephen Karam (Sons of the Prophet), Chris Peretti (Picnic), Justin Bowen (Chaplin), David Gardos (Chaplin), Lorina Lisitza (Triumphant Baby!), and cast members from Nice Work If You Can Get It.

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.

NYMF is the flagship program of National Music Theater Network, Inc., a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization. NYMF 2012 is presented in association with Dunkin’ Donuts, BroadwayWorld.com, Production Resource Group, and TheaterMania.com, with support from American Eagle Outfitters, Back Stage, BroadwayBox.com, BroadwayInsider.com, Fox 5/ WNYW-TV, King Displays, NASDAQ OMX, New World Stages, Next Magazine, The Port Authority of NY & NJ, Queerty.com, Thomson Reuters, TheMenEvent.com, Times Square Squared, and Yelp. Major supporters include The ASCAP Foundation, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, BMI Foundation, Inc., The BWF Foundation, Con Edison, The Nathan Cummings Foundation with the support and encouragement of Jamie Mayer Phinney, The New Musical Development Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and The Theater League. NYMF is supported, in part, by funds from the New York City Theater Subdistrict Council, LDC, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Photo Credit: Kevin Thomas Garcia

Susan Blackwell

Tamara Tunie

Sherie Rene Scott and Kelli O'Hara

Kelli O'Hara

Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara

Matthew Broderick, Isaac Hurwitz and Kelli O'Hara

Isaac Hurwitz and Kelli O'Hara

Isaac Hurwitz, Tony Danza and Peter Cincotti

Tony Danza and Peter Cincotti

Eric Leviton, Pia Cincotti, Tony Danza and Peter Cincotti

Tony Danza

Pia Cincotti and Peter Cincotti

Justin Bowen

Brett M. Boles and his Wife, Omar Lopez-Cepero and Stephen Nachamie

Warren Carlyle and Nicole Kastrinos