New York Musical Theater Festival Selects Shows for Next Link Series

The selection committee for the Next Link series included choreographer Rob Ashford; Thomas Cott, the former artistic director of Musical Theater Works; actress Joanna Gleason; producer Kevin McCollum; director Susan H. Schulman; and Jack Viertel, artistic director of the City Center Encores! series. The musicals that will be presented in the series, and their authors, are as follows:

The Banger’s Flopera
Kirk Wood Bromley and John Gideon

But I’m A Cheerleader
Andy Abrams and Bill Augustin

Don Imbroglio
Matt Beresi and Peter Hilliard

Isabelle and the Pretty-Ugly Spell
Steven Feisher and Joan Ross Sorkin

It Came From Beyond
Cornell Christianson, Stephen Michael Schwartz, and Marman Thalheimer

Ivory Joe Cole
Kelly Ward, Michael Tavera and Steven Santoro

The Mistress Cycle
by Beth Blatt and Jenny Giering

Monica! The Musical
Adam Blau, Daniel Blau, and Tracie Potochnik

No Boundaries
Liz Oliver

Orphan Train
L.E. McCullough, Michael Barry Greer, and Doug Katsaros

Plane Crazy
Suzy Conn

The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World
Joy Gregory, John Langs, and Gunnar Madsen

Tom Jones
Paul Leigh, Geroge Stiles, Daniel D. Brambilla, and Vera Guerin

Uncle Jed’s Barbershop
David Wohl, Kenneth Grimes, and Susan Einhorn

The Unknown
Janet Allard, Jean Randich, and Shane Rettig;

Wild Women of Planet Wongo
Steve Mackes, David Ogrin, and Ben Budick;

Yank!
David and Joseph Zellnik

You Might As Well Live
Norman Mathews and Dorothy Parker