NYMF 'Like Love' Opens Tonight 9/20 at TBG Theatre

The 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival and Dennis Grimaldi Productions present Like Love, a new musical with book and lyrics by Barry Jay Kaplan and music by Lewis Flinn.  Directed by Lisa Rothe, Like Love plays at the TBG Theatre on Thursday, September 20 at 8PM; Friday, September 21 at 1PM; Saturday, September 22 at 4:30PM; Sunday, September 23 at 4:30PM; Wednesday, September 26 at 8PM; Friday, September 28 at 8PM and Wednesday, October 3 at 4:30PM.

"Two people, He and She. A hotel room, an afternoon. No names, no strings, No Commitments. Just great sex. No problem ... then Love enters the picture, things get complicated. Like Love, an intimate new musical with a sensuous jazz influenced score. Sex is only the beginning," describe press notes.

The exciting young cast features Danielle Ferland; Emily Swallow and Jon Patrick Walker. Musical direction is by Brad Simmons, set and lighting designs are by Maruti Evans with costuming by Christina Bullard.

Tickets for Like Love are $20 and can be purchased by calling 212-352-2101 or visit www.nymf.org.  Like Love plays September 20 – October 3 at TBG Theatre (312 West 36th Street, between 8th and 9th Ave.)

Now in its 4th year, The New York Musical Theatre Festival is the largest musical theatre event in America. NYMF premiered 99 new musicals during its first three seasons, with more than a dozen of these shows transferring to successful off-Broadway and regional productions.  Hailed as "the Sundance of Musical Theatre," NYMF is widely regarded as the premier source for new material and talent discovery.

NYMF is a flagship program of The National Music Theater Network, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, and is presented by BroadwayWorld.com in association with amNewYork, Ars Nova, GSD Productions, King Displays, Panasonic Astrovision, Playbill, Variety Magazine and Verizon Wireless, and is proudly supported by Backstage, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Broadway Bullet, BroadwayBox.com, BroadwayInsider.com, Choice Signs, City Theatricals, Frank & Camille's Fine Pianos, HX Magazine, Port Authority of NY and NJ, Seasons of Savings, Tekserve, TheatreMania.com, TheMENevent, Virgin Megastore and Wybron. 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 the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency