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Directed by Linda Ade Brand, music directed by Andy Anderson.

Here are the titles, creative teams and casts for the 2006 Crossroads Musical Theater Festival: The readings "offer audiences the opportunity to hear new works before their full-staged premieres and give authors and composers critical feedback on the road to" a future life. Equity and non-Equity actors are expected to perform in the piano-and-voice presentations. The festival will operate under Actors' Equity staged reading rules. Readings will be staged at a variety of small venues in and around the downtown Kansas City "Crossroads District." Following a national call for submissions, seven new musicals were selected. Theater League markets include Greensboro, NC, Long beach, CA, Mesa, AZ, Pasadena, CA, Richardson, TX, South Bend, IN, Thousand Oaks, CA, and Toledo, OH. One of the Crossroads Festival's goals is for the Theater League to possibly fully produce a festival production for future presentation in its venues. If the program takes off, Theater League, Inc., markets around the country may be witness to a reading festival, letting other regional audiences in on the process of giving voice to new works. We are energized by the possibilities this exciting venture offers."

And by giving these new pieces a chance to be enjoyed, we plan to also offer new talent and new ideas the opportunity to grow and thrive. "We believe that introducing Kansas City audiences to new, fresh musical theatre productions is an important part of this mission. "Our mission at Theater League is to enhance the quality of life in the communities we serve with the thrill of live theatre," said Mark Edelman, Theater League president, in a statement. Works were solicited in recent months in an open submission process. The shows are presented in reading form with (mostly) Kansas City-area artists and directors involved in a number of venues. previously reported the titles of the works, some of which have had developmental readings around the country. It will introduce its Missouri audiences to readings of seven new works over two weekends, with presentations on July 15 and July 22. Theater League is the Kansas City-based national musical theatre presentation and production company, which has satellite presenting programs in a number of American cities. Kip Niven is featured in Crossroads Festival's Too Good to be True.