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What's in Store for NYMF 2016? Preview Five New Musicals!
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Nov 6, 2022
Musicals live at NYMF. Earlier today, the companies of five upcoming productions (A LASTING IMPRESSION, DUST CAN'T KILL ME, FOREST BOY, NEWTON'S CRADLE and TINK!) gave a special a sneak peek inside the rehearsal room at 440 Studios (440 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003). Curious what they're all about? Check out a first look below!
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Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World. The 13th Annual New York Musical Festival will take place from July 11th through August 7th
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And we're here at the 440 Rehearsal Studios to give you a sneak peek at some of this season's highlights
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Hey, little Evan, you don't understand. Oh, of course, you go on things that you can't
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Deep in your heart, isn't this what you planned? Have you hoped when the summer began
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See, you hold me a curve You did more than observe No, you tore us apart
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And you knew It's the trap that I'm in Let the special king win
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This is nothing compared to you This is such an important piece
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What would you like audiences to walk away with after seeing this? I would love people to think about
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again, this question that we begin with which is, where does a label help us
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and where does it hurt us? And how can we use labels to help other people
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free themselves sort of as entities in this world that our identities, these identities that we choose
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can mean anything in the world and every identity that we encounter
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is about interacting with that person and figuring out what that means for them
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And the people I believe believe Sipping ripples beyond from its point in the pond
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Where the wind will inflict its next move Beware, there's a pattern there
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There's an order I see If it isn't there, then it isn't there
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For anyone, but I think it still could be This is the 13th year
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Tell me what's making this so special for you. Well, for me, it's my third year out of the 13 that it happened
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It gets a little bit easier I have to say just to comprehend exactly what we doing and why we doing it The collection of shows I think is particularly strong Rachel Sussman has curated a really really magnificent festival
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And it's all feeling like it's well-managed and everybody's happy. And we can't wait for the audiences to come and enjoy it
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Zoe has a very specific style and it's very heartfelt. And yeah, there's something specific about singing her music
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that's very, it's easy. It just flows out of you. So that, obviously, I was like, absolutely
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And also our director, Whitney Mosery, she was the assistant director of American Psycho
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So we're really good friends. And so I'm happy to be around those great women
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Yeah. And I've been a part of this piece for a while. We actually did it at Pace University five or so years ago
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So it's great to be back. And it's just, it's a story about artists and family and lovers
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And it's just, it's so delicious. It's just like a really wonderful story
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Let me unfold, let this take hold, I can't let me unfold
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We're not different. We can make our dreams come true. Come and try one
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Come over and try one. There no dreams of every kind Fit precisely to your mind Come and buy one Come over and buy one Music
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It's a great opportunity to have your work worked on by high quality performers
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and fabulous people dedicated and all into making it the best that they can be
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It's a fabulous opportunity for an artist. I think he's talking about you. I don't know about that
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But, I mean, it's so wonderful as an actor to get to be in the room with the writers and to collaborate and to get to have some say in how things are developed
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And it's just so exciting to get to create. Do you play a dual role? I actually play one role, but it's kind of the evolution of Captain Hook
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how he becomes Captain Hook. So he starts out as James B. Airy
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and then by the end of the show, he loses a hand and Captain Hook is born
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It's the first time that a Scottish team's ever been picked to come over, so it's really exciting and it's lovely to hear Forest Point being done over here
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It's really cool. How long did it take you to write it? Oh, we wrote it a couple of years ago at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
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and it was picked up from there and that's kind of how we ended up coming here. So we've been with the show for like two years now
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but this is the first time we're doing this version of it, which is pretty cool
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Yeah, so we've been gradually developing it over a couple of years and we hope that this is the best version we've got of it so far
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We can't wait to show people. And for you starring in it, tell me about the role you play in that number we just saw
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Oh, wow. Well, it's really cool for an actor because at any given point, there are actually two trains of thought
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There's Ray, of course, who is like the alter ego who lives in the forest and spends all this time
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And then, of course, there's Robin who created the entire story. So at any given moment, there are like two different tracks to play
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It's really fun. I'll follow every street, so there's no way to live that day
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Just try and catch them. And today I just trying to catch them There a thousand things to see Under the shadow shadow of the sun I a tree so warm I a race in air
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I'm a bird on the ground, my friend And a master of the land
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He's a master of the land Well, I'd put it in the dirt
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If I could I'd build a coat in myself And I'd use diamonds, gold, wood
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to keep it locked down in hell. And I know that God did good to live
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and said that man should be given. I ain't no man. Oh, maybe I just don't understand
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I saw the show two years ago. They did Dust Can't Kill Me at Fringe two years ago
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And I actually couldn't get into Act 1 because it was sold out, so I snuck into Act 2. But for the next three days
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I was humming the music. I was thinking about the show. I was thinking about the story. It's very exciting to me
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to have a show that has two women in the forefront of it. It's exciting to be the show that has homosexual characters
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African-American characters, about these people in 1936. And then also seeing in 2016 how far we've come
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and also how little we've moved from that place. And so exposing that story in a contemporary way
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and exposing it to the Nymph audience is going to be very exciting this August. Rage, rage against the dying of the lies
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Rage, rage against the dying of the lies
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