New York Musical Festival (NYMF) to Cease Operations
1/3/2020 9:57am
The Board of Directors of the New York Musical Festival (NYMF) have announced that after 15 years of presenting vibrant, new musical theater, NYMF will cease operation immediately. The first Festival, staged in 2004, featured over 30 new fully staged full-length musicals and was met with critical and popular acclaim. More than 400 shows have premiered at the Festival since then, featuring more than 8,000 artists and entertaining more than 300,000 audience members. The musicals and artists introduced at NYMF have, in turn, gone on to further successes on and Off-Broadway, across the country, and around the globe - reaching literally millions of theatergoers worldwide. NYMF was honored with a 2013 Drama Desk Award recognizing its first decade of creating and nurturing new musical theatre, ensuring the future of this essential art form. The board did not see a clear path forward citing the arts funding crusis in the United Stages, but did praise executive director Scott Pyne, artistic director West Hyler, their staffs, and the hundreds of creative teams who have participated over the years to create excellent new musicals.Press contact: Keith Sherman & Associates (212/764-7900)...