Oh, Boise!
It is September, which means the New York Musical Theatre Festival is nigh. Running Sept. 15–Oct. 5, the Festival features tons of shows, workshops and readings, all with the idea of giving fresh musicals a chance to be seen. Altar Boyz, [title of show], the aforementioned Next to Normal, all got a boost from being produced through the Festival. I talked with Rob Sutton, who will be making his NYMF debut as Whip Masters in Idaho!, the musical Rodgers and Hammerstein might have made if they were obsessed with potato farming and life in the state that gave us Napoleon Dynamite. Sutton has been in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, Mamma Mia! in Vegas and now a pig farm in Queens, as you shall read…

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**Photo Credit: Richard Termine