'Back Home' Sold-Out 2 NYMF Performances, Others Limited

Back Home: The War Brides Musical, part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), has sold out two of their seven shows. Performances will be at The Sage Theater (711 Seventh Avenue), and will begin on Monday, September 24, continuing through Sunday, September 30.

"Back Home aims to shed light on a war story that is rarely told.  During World War II, over 70,000 British Women met and married American servicemen stationed in Great Britain.  After the war, husbands and wives were separated when the husbands were shipped home.  The separations, in most cases, lasted more than a year due to governmental indifference to the plight of the War Brides on both sides of the Atlantic.  The musical is based on true events and follows the journey of Maureen (Mo) Gubbins, a London postal worker and Ivy Hennessy, a mill worker from Leeds in their fight to be reunited with their husbands," explain press notes.

The schedule will be as follows:
Monday, September 24 at 8PM; Tuesday, September 25 at 1PM; Wednesday, September 26 at 4:30PM; Friday, September 28 at 1PM; Saturday, September 29 at 8PM and Sunday September 30 at 1PM & 4:30PM

Tickets are $20 and may be purchased by calling Theatermania at 212-352-3101, or online at www.nymf.org.

Now in its 4th year, The New York Musical Theatre Festival is the largest musical theatre event in America.  NYMF premiered 99 new musicals during its first three seasons, with more than a dozen of these shows transferring to successful off-Broadway and regional productions.  Hailed as "the Sundance of Musical Theatre," NYMF is widely regarded as the premier source for new material and talent discovery.

NYMF is a flagship program of The National Music Theater Network, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, and is presented by BroadwayWorld.com in association with amNewYork, Ars Nova, GSD Productions, King Displays, Panasonic Astrovision, Playbill, Variety Magazine and Verizon Wireless, and is proudly supported by Backstage, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Broadway Bullet, BroadwayBox.com, BroadwayInsider.com, Choice Signs, City Theatricals, Frank & Camille's Fine Pianos, HX Magazine, Port Authority of NY and NJ, Seasons of Savings, Tekserve, TheatreMania.com, TheMENevent, Virgin Megastore and Wybron. NYMF is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.