Jennifer Damiano, Ciara Renee and More Lead A LASTING IMPRESSION at NYMF Today

The reading of the new musical A Lasting Impression performs at New York Musical Festival this month. CAndy Buckley (Cabaret, After the Fall, Thoroughly Modern Millie), Theo Stockman (American Psycho, American Idiot, Hair), and Ben Moss (Freedom Riders) will join the previously announced cast which includes Jennifer Damiano, CIARA RENÉE, Meghann Fahy, and Krista Pioppi. The reading is directed by WHITNEY MOSERY (King Charles III, American Psycho).

Two more performances will take place today, July 20 at 3:30 PM, and tonight, July 20 at 7:30 PM at Playwrights Horizons Rehearsal Studio (416 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036).

A Lasting Impression is a new musical with book by Emily Kaczmarek and music and lyrics by Zoe Sarnak that explores the relationships between Kali and Simone, who are artists, sisters, and (lately) roommates. They live, work, and navigate their mother's chronic illness in close quarters and relative peace - until they meet Jo, a journalist wrestling with the cost of her recent assignment in Syria. As each sister becomes romantically and creatively entangled with Jo, all 3 women are forced to examine how they relate to their art, the world, and to one another. A Lasting Impression is a musical about love between artists, love between sisters, and the power of storytelling in all its forms.

The New York Musical Festival nurtures the creation, production, and public presentation of stylistically, thematically, and culturally diverse new musicals to ensure the future vitality of musical theater.

Now in its thirteenth year, the Festival is the premier musical theater event in the world. The preeminent site for launching new musicals and discovering new talent, the Festival provides an affordable platform for artists to mount professional productions that reach their peers, industry leaders, and musical theater fans. More than 90 Festival shows have gone on to productions on and Off-Broadway, in regional theaters in all 50 states, and in more than 24 countries worldwide. Festival alumni have received a wide array of awards including the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2013, NYMF received a special Drama Desk Award in recognition of its work "creating and nurturing new musical theatre, ensuring the future of this essential art form."

NYMF is the flagship program of National Music Theater Network, Inc., a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization. NYMF 2016 is sponsored by The City of New York Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, Fuzzrocket, PRG, TheaterMania, and Clear Channel Spectacolor, and is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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The 2016 New York Musical Festival will take place July 11 - August 7. For more information, visit www.nymf.org.