Festival Passes for NYMF 2005 On Sale Aug. 8
By: BWW News Desk Aug. 04, 2005
This year's Festival will include such musicals as Feeling Electric by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, directed by Peter Askin (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Reluctant Pilgrim, a new musical revue featuring the songs of Stephen Schwartz, and The Big Time with a book by Douglas Carter Beane (As Bees in Honey Drown, To Wong Foo…), music and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen (No Way to Treat a Lady, The Opposite of Sex), and starring Tony award-winner Debbie Gravitte (Jerome Robbins' Broadway).
"Obviously we are very happy with the productions contained in The Next Link portion of our Festival (Tom Jones, The Mistress Cycle, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, Plane Crazy, etc.) and our invited programs (Nerds://A Musical Software Satire, People Like Us, Richard Cory, etc.) but we are awe-struck over the Broadway talent that has affixed themselves to NYMF 2005," stated Isaac Robert Hurwitz, Director of Programming for the Festival. Broadway performers in this year's Festival include John Cariani (Wild Women of Planet Wongo), Mary Bond Davis (The Mistress Cycle) and Karen Mason (You Might As Well Live).
Dedicated to discovering new work and new artists, The New York Musical Theatre Festival celebrates the diversity, creativity, and future of musical theatre. NYMF is a flagship program of the National Music Theater Network, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, and is America's largest annual musical theatre event. NYMF is produced in association with Virgin Megastores and proudly supported by amNewYork, Village Voice, WB11, Dodger Stages, Receptasign, King Displays, Rosco, Scharff Weissberg, TheaterMania.com, BroadwayWorld.com and Manhattan Living. For more information, visit www.nymf.org.
NYMF 2005 runs September 12th through October 2nd in various Off-Broadway theaters located in the Times Square area. For further information, scheduling and ticketing, please go to www.nymf.org or call 212-352-3101 or 866-811-4111 (toll free). Individual tickets for Festival shows will be available on August 29th.
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