Yesterday morning, July 3rd, New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) presented a special preview of the 2012 featuring musical selections from: Rio, Stand Tall, Himself & Nora, Trouble, Stealing Time, Arnie the Doughnut, Foreverman, A Letter to
Harvey Milk and The Groove Factory.
The event, hosted by GODSPELL's Corbin Bleu, featured Leslie Kritzer, Matt Bogart, Natalie Toro, Jeremy Kushnier, Tom Deckman, Adam Monley, Danny Quadrino, Jennifer Wren, J. Manuel Santos and more! BroadwayWorld was there and brings you photos of the casts and creative teams below!
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. For more about the festival, visit
www.nymf.org.
Photo credit: Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.![Photo Coverage: Corbin Bleu, Jeremy Kushnier et al. Backstage at the NYMF Preview Performance! Photo Coverage: Corbin Bleu, Jeremy Kushnier et al. Backstage at the NYMF Preview Performance! Image](https://cloudimages.broadwayworld.com/BWW2011/highres.png)
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Corbin Bleu
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Isaac Robert Hurwitz and Corbin Bleu
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Corbin Bleu
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Natalie Toro
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Tom Deckman
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Adam Arian
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Danny Quadrino
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Jeremy Kushnier
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Kim Sozzi
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Leslie Kritzer
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Jeremy Kushnier
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Corbin Bleu
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Leslie Kritzer
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Natalie Toro
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Kim Sozzi
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Danny Quadrino
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Kim Sozzi with Nathaly Lopez, David James Boyd, Colleen Longshawand "The Groove Factory" Company
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Jeremy Kushnier and "Stealing Time" Company
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Adam Arian and Tom Deckman
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Adam Arian, Tom Deckman and Frances Limoncelli
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Jef Canter, Trista Dollison, Jill Shackner and Gerard Canonico
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"Zapata's" Natalie Toro, Julie Mille (General Manager) and Elizabeth Lucas (Director)
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Corbin Bleu and Jeremy Kushnier
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Omar Lopez-Cepero and Adam Monley
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Adam Monley, Omar Lopez-Cepero, Leslie Kritzer and Corbin Bleu
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Omar Lopez-Cepero, Adam Monley, Corbin Bleu and Jeremy Kushnier
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Leslie Kritzer and Corbin Bleu
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