Musical Film IN THE NIGHT Screens as Part of NYMF Tonight, 7/21

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) and United Rain Productions present the world premiere of In The Night. Screening will take place tonight, July 21st at 7 and 9 PM at St Clements Theatre 423 West 46th Street, New York, New York 10036.

A musical film about finding the courage to live your dream, In The Night follows Jane, a playwright with one night left to write a new script. It is already past midnight when she finally gets an idea - a cast of actors, abandoned by their director. Driven by fear of unemployment and misery, the actors decide to create a show of their own. Slowly, they grow empowered as they realize the potential their show has to tell the stories they've always longed to reveal. But everyone, as it turns out, has their price. As the clock ticks for Jane and her characters, she realizes that her characters aren't the only ones who have some tough decisions to face.

Cast includes Eric Dysart (“30 Rock”, Broadway: Hairspray (original cast), A Chorus Line); Michiko Sasaki (Radio City Rockettes, Broadway/First National Tour of 42nd Street, “Fresh Beat Band,” “White Collar”); Corey Wright (Chicago national & international tours, NYMF verteran with ENCORE!); Nicole Dionne (Leading Ladies, The Broken Hearts Club, Boston Flamenco Ballet); Sara Brophy (Damn Yankees national tour); Heather Gault, Bryana Servedio, and Andrew Start.

Goetz Neumann serves as executive producer, director and writer for In the Night. He has a Masters in Theaterwissenschaft (Theater Arts) from the J-­L-­Universität in Giessen. In 1990 he founded the Kölner Musical Company and served as their president. For the last 19 years the company has staged more than 35 productions. In The Night has been a project of his for the last fifteen years.

UnitedRain is a film production studio with a focus on musical films. UnitedRain was founded by Götz Neumann in 2007 and has since then worked on its first feature film brought to fruition its frst feature film, In The Night. In late 2008 Claudia von Lienen joined UnitedRain as co-producer. UnitedRain works internationally and is based in Köln (Cologne) Germany.

Now in its ninth year, the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) is the largest annual musical theatre event in America and is widely regarded as the essential source for new material and talent discovery. NYMF provides a launching pad for the next generation of musicals and their creators to ensure the continued vitality of one of America's greatest art forms. Hailed as the "Sundance of Musical Theatre," NYMF discovers, nurtures, and promotes promising musical theatre artists and producers at all stages of development, and inspires a diverse audience through vibrant, accessible, powerful new work.

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IN THE NIGHT plays at THEATRE AT ST. CLEMENTS for one night only on Saturday, July 21st at 7 and 9 PM. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased online at www.nymf.org or by calling (212) 352-3101. For more information, please visit www.NYMF.org.