PROM PROMO AND MORE!
We are excited to announce some special discounts for our New York Broadway Tour customers around town!!!
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Don’t worry…there’s more to come!!! 😉
How to be a New Yorker
Have you ever wanted to take a tour of NYC without having to walk around and hurt your feet? Well this show will definitely hurt your sides because you will be laughing the whole night!
I want to personally thank the actors/comedians AND licensed NYC tour guides, Margaret Copeland and Kevin James Doyle for sharing their love of New York with the Off-Broadway Stage and me. As a tour operator and tour guide and actor I was completely hooked from beginning to end. I felt like everything I have learned as guide and as a New Yorker was completely on point including exagerations on New Yorker’s love hate relationship with the city!
I am happy to announce our new partnership and I will happily highly recommend them to anyone and everyone who comes on our tours! Go Kevin and Margaret and team H2BANewYorker.
Visit their website for more info:?http://www.how2banewyorker.com/tickets.php
Times Square Social Gay Networking Event hosted by The Men Event!
Dear New York Broadway Tour Goers!
We want to introduce you to “The Men Event” who we are excited to partner with!
About The Men Event: ?With a readership of over?18,000 members, we are the?largest Gay social and business networking company in NYC!? We encourage our readers to network for their business needs at our events and online.? If your agenda includes meeting a man to date, our events also serve those needs.? So, whether you are seeking a job, promoting your business, meeting new friends, or looking for a man to flirt with- TheMenEvent is here to serve you!? Enjoy!– Hugh Hysell, founder of TheMenEvent
Hugh Hysell recently won a Tony Award for producing Christopher Durang’s Broadway play “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike!”
Check out their upcoming event “Times Square Social Gay Networking event” on Tuesday, AUGUST 13th from 6pm-9pm
TUESDAY 8/13, 6-9pm?
Times Square Social – NYC’s HIT gay Networking Event
Presented by TheMenEvent and Edge Networks
Boxers HK, 742 9th Ave at 50th St
Featuring:
* Happy Hour Drink Specials
* Hundreds of Amazing Attendees
* No cover!
* First 25 to check-in get a voucher for free admission at a future walking tour with NY Broadway Tours (www.newyorkbroadwaytours.c
* SWEEPSTAKES for great prizes: You can enter to win a prize package where you can win 5 pairs of tickets to Broadway and Off Broadway shows.
It’s FREE! Visit?http://gaynetworkingsocial.eventbrite.com?to register and most of all ENJOY THE EVENT!
New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF)
Today I volunteered at The New York Musical Theatre Festival where I helped put placards together and passed out brochures and programs to New Yorkers on the street and we donated gift certificates to their annual gala.
If YOU love musicals I definitely recommend checking out this festival. They are ALL musicals and they have special events and workshops going on for 3 weeks beginning next week!
They are running 30 shows from July 8th-28th and they are celebrating their 10 year anniversary! Visit their website for info on purchasing tickets! If you are interested in volunteering they could use more support too!
MISSION & HISTORY
NYMF exists to ensure the future vitality of America?s greatest art form by providing an affordable way for artists to mount professional productions that reach their peers, industry leaders, and musical theatre audiences, and by serving as the preeminent launching pad for stylistically, thematically, and culturally diverse new musicals.
Like any great art form, musical theatre is shaped by the events and philosophies of the day. The strength and vitality of musical theatre lie in its ability to stay fresh and relevant. It was with that idea in mind, ten years ago, that the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) was created ? to provide an effective platform to introduce new shows, new perspectives, and new blood into the musical theatre canon.
The first Festival, staged in 2004, featured over thirty new fully staged full-length musicals and was met with critical and popular acclaim. More than 350 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.
This year, NYMF was honored with a Drama Desk Award recognizing its first decade of creating and nurturing new musical theatre, ensuring the future of this essential art form.
Here’s a little more info:
THE NEWEST ADDITIONS TO THE 2013 LINE-UP
One of the most anticipated announcements of?NYMF’s season is finally here: we’ve got more productions to add to the summer slate!
The Awakening of Angel DeLuna
Book by Judylynn Schmidt; Music by Lee Ellis; Lyrics by Judylynn Schmidt and Lee Ellis
Ollie let the love of his life slip through his fingers and has regretted it ever since. A spectacle with live trapeze acts that will remind you why the human spirit is undefeatable and love is worth every risk.
Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue Presents “The Bront?s”
Book, Music and Lyrics by Debra Buonaccorsi and Steve McWilliams
Everyone’s favorite 19th Century literary family gets the rock-and-roll treatment from Washington DC’s hippest theatrical troupe.
Feather
Book by Jeremy Culver; Music by Charleene Closshey
Original songs by Nick Everitt and Liesl Karlsson; Painting by Jeffry Feeger
With a sweeping, emotional score and an artist painting live on stage, this stunning fusion of art, film and music explores the power of imagination and, ultimately, what it means to be human.
Homo The Musical!
Book by Lola Rock-N-Rolla; Music and Lyrics by Gina Volpe
Posing as a suburban housewife, an alien from Planet Homo has infiltrated a religious middle-American town. Will the good people of Pleasant Valley Pines notice before their whole community erupts in chaos and depravity?
Icarus
Book by Jason Slavick and the LAB Ensemble; Music and Lyrics by Nathan Leigh
Greek mythology meets burlesque, puppetry, and a folk-rock score in the latest piece from acclaimed ensemble Liars and Believers, creators of last year’s gritty Festival hit, Le Cabaret Grimm.
Legacy Falls
Book by James Burn and Ian Poitier, Music and Lyrics by James Burn
The side-splitting new musical that dishes the dirt on soap opera. Tune in to this tuneful, farcical frolic through the on- and off-screen drama of America’s favorite daytime soap!
Life Could Be A Dream
Book, Music and Lyrics by Roger Bean
From the creator of “The Marvelous Wonderettes.” Sixties doo-wop group the “Crooning Crabcakes,”get one more chance at fame and fortune when they enter a local contest on Big Whopper Radio. Can they realize their dreams of making it to the big time?
Marry Harry
Book by Jennifer Robbins; Music by Dan Martin; Lyrics by Michael Biello
Sparks fly when troubled Chef Harry meets the landlord’s daughter, Sherri — but then things start moving much too fast. With a healthy helping of humor and just the right amount of spice, this bouncy musical provides a recipe for finding your path in life.
Mother, Wife and the Complicated Life
Book, Music and Lyrics by Amity Dry
Join four best friends as they discover marriage is nothing like the movies, motherhood can push you to your limits and no one makes you laugh like your girlfriends do.
That Lady from Maxim’s
Book, Music and Lyrics by Bryan Williams
After a night of too much champagne, respectable Dr. Petypon wakes up to find a woman in his bed — and winds up in a maze of mistaken identities and catapulting chaos in this hysterical French farce.
Volleygirls
Book by Rob Ackerman; Music by Eli Bolin; Lyrics by Sam Forman
English teacher Kim Brindell has been assigned to coach the Ladyhawks, a team of wide-eyed, misfit, high-school girls who can’t seem to win a game. Can Kim overcome her own past, help her girls and win it all, in this funny, heart-filled show with a contemporary pop-tinged score.
ALUMNI & AWARDS
In nine years, NYMF has presented over 350 new musicals. Over 85 of them have gone on to further productions following NYMF. Beyond New York, NYMF shows have delighted theatregoers in 48 states and 24 countries around the world!
24 NYMF shows have transferred to Off-Broadway:?Altar Boyz; Balls…The Musical?; The Big Voice: God or Merman?; The Blue Flower; Captain Louie; Fat Camp; F#%king Up Everything; The Great American Trailer?Park Musical; Gutenberg! The Musical!; In Transit; The Last Smoker in America; My Vaudeville Man; Next to Normal; Play It Cool; Rooms: A Rock Romance; The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World; Shout! The Mod Musical; Tales of Custard the Dragon; The Other Josh Cohen; Things to Ruin; [title of show]; Unlock?d; With Glee; Yank!
3 NYMF shows have opened on Broadway:?Chaplin; Next to Normal; [title of show]?
NYMF shows have gone on to win:?1 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; 3 Tony Awards; 2 Outer Critics Circle Awards; 2 Drama Desk Awards; 1 Lucille Lortel Award; 3 Obie Award Citations; 1 Los Angeles Ovation Award; 2 Barrymore Awards; 6 Helen Hayes Awards; 2 Richard Rodgers Awards
And have been nominated for:?13 Tony Awards; 29 Drama Desk Awards; 11 Outer Critics Circle Awards; 4 GLAAD Media Awards; 19 Helen Hayes Awards; 16 Lucille Lortel Awards; 9 Barrymore Awards; 6 Ovation Awards; 7 Jeff Awards
Rockaway Theatre Company
My first production I was in when I made it to New York was in Crimes Of The Heart directed by Peggy Press. I was cast as Lenny the older sister who owned the house and was the heart of the sisters. It was an amazing cast, production, and theatre that I will always treasure as my first experience in New York. Even though it isn’t BROADWAY the amazing talent and quality behind the work is equivalent.
Since the theatre is located in Fort Tilden all the way out by the water when hurricane Sandy hit they were hit hard. They are coming back with a vengeance and could use some assistance in fund raising. I loved the theatre and the way everyone treated each other like family. It was a home and it deserves to be rectified.
I am happy to share that they are having their annual Rockaway Cafe Production starting July 19th and I highly recommend visiting the theatre or donating to their cause. I did! Look for New York Broadway Tours at their special intermission raffle and 50/50 drawings!
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For 10 years, the Rockaway Theatre Company (RTC) has produced a special, one-of-a-kind show that has entertained the Rockaway Community. We call it ?Rockaway Caf??. This is a production where singers and dancers come together and showcase their talents in a musical revue type setting. Selections often include selections by artists such as the Charlie Daniels Band to Lady Gaga and The Temptations to CCR and everything in between. Come out this July and have some fun with the RTC Cast and Crew at our Rockin? Reopening Celebration?Rockaway Caf? ? The Comeback!
For performance dates and times and to reserve tickets check out our?performance calendar!
Visit their website for more info!
The Rockaway Theatre Company, Inc. is a not-for- profit NYS 501C3 organization located at Fort Tilden in The National Park Service Gateway National Recreation Area. We strive to improve the quality of life for residents of Rockaway and surrounding communities by bringing them live quality entertainment at a nominal cost. Over the course of the last fourteen years, we have earned a reputation as the best that community theater has to offer.
During our tenure at our present location we have been proud to offer full season line-ups of professional quality theatrical productions to the members of our community each year at very reasonable prices. We also provide opportunities for performers of all ages to showcase their talents.
Our Young People?s Theatre Workshops are extremely popular. They are open to children between the ages of 6 and 18. In class, youngsters learn the ins and outs of theatrical production and develop and hone their dramatic skills. There are usually 30 sessions culminating in a full scale musical theater production performed for audiences by workshop students on our main stage. In addition, we offer evening adult workshops in dance, acting, musical theatre and theatre tech. Classes offered in our theater are taught by licensed educators and professionals in various areas of instruction. They are offered to the community as a public service and tuition is nominal as our Company assumes the bulk of the operating costs In an attempt to keep our ticket prices affordable for our patrons, we have instituted a reduced-price season subscription and reduced-price tickets for seniors and children.
Our community service efforts include free performances, both in our theater and in various other sites, to benefit North Shore Animal League America, The Children?s Diabetes Foundation, Rockaway and Brooklyn Chambers of Commerce, NYPD 100th Precinct Community Council, The Addabbo Family Health Center, Gateway National Recreation Area and many other worthy institutions.
Unfortunately, we were forced to bring our activities at the Post Theatre to an abrupt halt at the end of October, 2012 when our theater was ravaged by superstorm Sandy. We suffered many devastating losses including irreparable damage to our seats, our equipment, our lighting, amplifiers, microphones, musical instruments, etc. The replacement of most of these items was not covered by our insurance. Much of our house, stage and dressing room areas were underwater for a significant amount of time which necessitates massive commercial dry out and mold treatment before our building can be deemed safe for both adults and children to resume activities. The cost of this mold remediation, building renovation and equipment replacement is astronomical and we have already suffered major financial losses due to prolonged cancellation of previously scheduled programs.
At this point, we have been denied any federal or state grants which we have sought in an effort to cover these expenses. We are appealing to the public and to various charitable groups to assist us in bringing our theater back to the level of a safe, operational cultural institution.
We are gratified to observe that our audiences have grown steadily over the past fourteen years and we are anxious to have the opportunity to, once again, offer quality entertainment and educational services to our ever increasing public, hopefully in the very near future. Now, more than ever, Rockaway residents need the joy of live theater in their lives.
Please help us bring it to them.
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