NYMF Adds Additional Peformances for Fastest Selling Shows

Isaac Robert Hurwitz (NYMF Executive Director & Producer) announced that due to demand NYMF will add extra performances of Hunter Foster & Rick Crom's Bonnie & Clyde: A Folktale, Buddy Sheffield & Keith Thompson's Idaho!, and Matthew Loren Cohen's Jason & Ben.

The previously announced added performance of Wood will move from Sunday, September 21st to Friday, September 19th at 4:30. The Jerusalem Syndrome, originally scheduled October 4th at 1pm, has been rescheduled to Sunday, October 5th at 5pm.

New show dates and times are:

Bonnie & Clyde: Sunday September 28th 1pm
Idaho!: Saturday, October 4th 1pm
Jason & Ben: Saturday, September 27th at 1pm

Other top selling shows and shows with sold out performances include; Drew Fornarola and Scott Elmegreen's COLLEGE: the Musical; James Millar and Peter Rutherford's The Hatpin; Matt Prager's She Can't Believe She Said That! and Bedbugs!!! (book & lyrics by Fred Sauter; music by Paul Leschen).

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) celebrates its fifth year with 24 full productions, a dance series, a developmental series, concerts and special events. Since its inception in 2004, this three-week annual festival has premiered more than 130 new musicals - many of which have gone on to award-winning productions in New York, in regional theaters and on tour in 38 states, and nine countries worldwide. NYMF 2004 hit Altar Boyz has played well over 1,000 performances Off-Broadway and spawned two National Tours; fellow NYMF alum [title of show] recently opened to rave reviews at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway; Nerds is coming to Broadway this Spring; and Off-Broadway audiences will soon see My Vaudeville Man. This year's Festival will begin September 15th and continue through October 5th.

Hailed as "the Sundance of Musical Theatre," The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) exists to revitalize one of America's greatest art forms by discovering, supporting and promoting new musical theater artists, producers, and projects, and by introducing a diverse audience to the vibrancy of contemporary musical theater.

Widely regarded as the essential source for new material and talent discovery, NYMF is the flagship program of The National Music Theater Network, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, and is presented in association with BroadwayWorld.com, Production Resource Group and TheaterMania.com, and is supported by amNewYork, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, BroadwayBox.com, BroadwayInsider.com, Frank & Camille's Fine Pianos, HX Magazine, Jossip.com, King Displays, Queerty.com, Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, Metromix.com, The New York Blade, Next Magazine, Panasonic Astrovision, Tekserve, TheMENEvent, VOGA Italia, and The Zipper Factory. 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 from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Tickets for all NYMF productions are on sale now and can be purchased at www.nymf.org or by calling 212-352-3101.