I was invited to be a judge for the first heat of this New York Musical Theatre Festival competition along with casting director Michael Cassara, ASCAP's Director of Musical Theatre Michael Kerker and composer Ryan Scott Oliver.
The evening was compered by one of the most exciting young Broadway talents on the scene, star of DOGFIGHT and GODSPELL Lindsay Mendez
We heard ten talented kids singing theatre songs from Maltby & Shire, Bricusse & Newley, Sondheim, Bock & Harnick and Adam Guettel. Tomorrow night another ten will compete (Celia Keenan-Bolger will be in my judge's chair), four will be chosen from each heat and a Grand Final winner chosen from the final eight on October 12th. The winner will perform a solo concert produced by NYMF and Sh-K-Boom Records. I should enter myself!
Tonight's winners were Adam Kaplan
Josephine Spada
and Joel Dommel. And I discovered that the following night our brilliant Aussie friend Alexis Fishman made it through to the Grand Final as well. YAYYYYYYYYYY!
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