Eric Sirota's Frankenstein-Inspired Musical DAY OF WRATH Comes to NYMF Tonight

"Day of Wrath" a new musical by Eric B. Sirota, based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, will be presented this coming tonight and Monday (July 18 & 20), as an Official Selection of the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival's Reading Series. "Day of Wrath", with a sweeping romantic score, is about the human need for love and companionship. (www.DayOfWrathMusical.com)

It will be directed by Katharine Pettit, with musical direction by Mila Henry, and Daniel Ricken as stage manager. The cast will be Carl Hulden (Creature), Brian C. Veith (Victor Frankenstein), Raquel Tillo (Elizabeth Lavenza), Paul Chamberlain (Alphonse Frankenstein) and Sam Rohloff (Henry Clerval).

The emerging composer/playwright Eric Sirota, is also an established and highly published research scientist, and fellow of the American Physical Society. In the last few years his musical theatre works have begun to draw attention in the New York theatre community. Another musical with book, music and lyrics by Sirota, "Your Name On My Lips", an original love story, has had multiple staged readings, and is now looking forward to its first production in September at the Theater for the New City (www.YourNameOnMyLips.com).

The NYMF readings of "Day of Wrath" (book, music and lyrics by Eric B. Sirota) will be on Sat. July 18 @ 1 PM and 4:30 PM and Mon. July 20 at 5 PM, at The Studio Theatre at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street. www.NYMF.org/DayOfWrath. For ticket information, visit NYMF.org or call (212) 352-3101.

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

Now in its twelfth year, the Festival is the largest musical theatre event in America. 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 theatre 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 20 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 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.