Opening NYMF!!!

Who says giving of your time doesn't pay?

As an added bonus for volunteering with NYMF at Sunday's Broadway on Broadway extravaganza, I was invited to attend the New York Musical Theater Festival Opening Night party! The casual/trendy affair began at 9pm and was held at Touch, a swank nightclub in the heart of the Theater District. I arrived ultra-fashionably late with my boyfriend at 10pm and although we had missed the red carpet arrivals, there was still more fun to be had!



My main objective for going to this bash was to see if I could mix and mingle with some others in the theater scene and possibly run into a few familiar faces. Unfortunately, the sea of faces didn't ring any bells but I was still determined to make the most of it. After taking a few turns on the dance floor, my boyfriend suggested that we make our way to the bar area to strike up a few conversations with complete strangers. You can't come out to one of these shindigs without making friends with at least one new person, right?

"You have the same shirt my girlfriend just got," my boyfriend declared to a young man dressed in the NYMF T-shirt like the very one I had received at my volunteer gig the day before. That's all it took. We learned that this guy was fairly new to the city and was now working as a Box Office Manager for the festival. We also chatted with his friend Erin who as it turns out is an Assistant to the General Manager of the Fest. In the end, we exchanged names and are now happily facebook friends. Score another one for facebook! The theater world is very small. You never know where these new friendships may lead!

Satisfied with ourselves for talking to a couple new folks, we got a round of drinks from the futuristic touch sensitive light-up bar (how very apropos) and headed back into the main room for some more dancing and people watching.

We had several pictures of us snapped during the course of the evening, because well, we're just so darn cute I guess - but since I don't yet hold NYMF celebrity status, it's any body's guess as to where those photos will end up. Lucky for us, we had our own camera and snapped a few pictures for posterity.

Check out that bar!



After a lovely night of merriment, I found this sign quite amusing.