Photo Coverage: NAMT Reception at Marseilles
By: Ben Strothmann
A reception at New York's Marseilles was held on September 27th to celebrate The National Alliance for Musical Theatre's 17th Annual Festival of New Musicals, which was held for an invited audience of NAMT members and other theatre industry professionals on September 25th and 26th.The eight musicals included in the festival, as part of the New Works Program, were Robert Taylor and Richard Oberacker's Ace, starring Christiane Noll and Adam Monley; Marsha Norman, Beth Blatt and Jenny Giering's Caraboo, Princess of Javasu, starring Celia Keenan-Bolger and Andrew Lippa; Lee Summers and Ben Blake's The Funkentine Rapture, starring Billy Porter and Marva Hicks; Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman's I Love You Because, starring Stephanie D'Abruzzo; Andrew Lippa and Brian Crawley's A Little Princess, starring Will Chase and Julia Murney; Andrew Gerle and Eddie Sugarman's Meet John Doe, starring Michael Rupert and Donna Lynne Champlin; Daniel Goldfarb and David Kirshenbaum's Party Come Here starring Hunter Foster, Terrence Mann and Megan Hilty; and Cheri Coons and Chuck Larkin's River's End, starring Matt Farsnworth and Jodie Langel.For more information, visit www.namt.net.
The Funkentine Rapture's Lee Summers, Jo Lynn Burks, and Dion Graham
Josh Rhodes, Lorin Latarro, David Hamlin, and Anastasia Barzee
NAMT Executive Director Kathy Evans, Lydia Wagner, Derek Collard, composer/lyricist Lance Horne, and Tiger Martinez
Summers and Evans
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