The production, which does not yet have a director, will run June 24-26 in the Martel Theater. The show is based on a 1951 Ealing Studios comedy starring Alec Guinness, an eccentric scientist who discovers a fabric that never needs to be cleaned, thus sparking a crisis in the British textile industry. No casting has been announced. This will be Kotis and Hollmann's first full musical effort since the duo won Tony Awards for Urinetown.

The NYS&F season will include two other musical workshops: Dangerous Beauty, with music by Michele Brourman, book by Jeannine Dominy, lyrics by Amanda McBroom, and directed by Sheryl Kaller; and Behind The Limelight, with music, book and lyrics by Christopher Curtis, directed by Michael Unger. The former, running July 7-10 at the Martel, is based on the movie of the same name (also written by Dominy), and is "a romantic and powerful new musical set in the opulent, decadent world of 16th Century Venice [where] a beautiful and ingenious young woman treads the only available path to education, power and the company of her upper class lover by taking on the life of a courtesan."

Limelight, meanwhile, promises that "the wounded youth, the idealist, the cad and the genius all come together in this musical exploration of one of film's great enigmas and greatest legends, Charlie Chaplin." It runs July 21-24 at the Martel.

The play lineup, meanwhile, will begin with Donna Morelli by Gina Barnett, about "tech-influenced adolescents coping with the most thrilling, scary and physical stage of life in a modern love story inspired by Romeo and Juliet." It runs June 22-25 in the Powerhouse Theater. Next up is Blue Door by Tanya Barfield, telling of "the ghosts of one family’s past [as they] come alive to reveal a history of heartbreak and pain in post Civil War America." Dates are July 6-9. Lastly at the Powerhouse, July 13-16, is Big Wyoming, a new work by David Neipris, directed by Hal Brooks, about "a Romanian philosopher in the twilight of his life [who] relives memories of Paris, his one great love and the painful consequences of his youthful ideas."

Under the category of "Special Presentations" come two short presentations at the Powerhouse: Anna and Mee by Randle Mell, directed by Max Mayer; and Love Child, written by the actors Dan Jenkins and Robert Stanton, and directed by David Warren. In Love Child, Jenkins and Stanton will "portray everyone on stage, backstage and in the house on one disastrous night at the theatre." NYS&F will also present two reading series. They are as follows:

Reading Festival #1 - June 17, 18 and 19:
Raymond Falls, by Dan Kagan
Sweet Mercy, by Melody Cooper
The New Broom, by Michael Martin Kell
The Busy World Is Hushed, by Keith Bunin
One more reading TBA

Reading Festival #2 – July 22, 23 and 24:
Yes! We Have No Pajamas, by Nicole Burdette, directed by Brian MacDevitt, with Tim Hutton.
The Plains Of Ilion, by Steven Sater, directed by Barry Edelstein
Rapture, by Joanna Murray-Smith
Jayson With a Y, by Darci Picoult
Manic Flight Reaction, by Sarah Schulman, directed by Trip Cullman

The entire season will run from June 17 to July 31.

NYS&F's 2004 season reaped remarkable benefits. Among the presentations—all of which subsequently traveled to New York, or were announced for future New York productions—were Doubt by John Patrick Shanley, The Argument by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros and Fran's Bed by James Lapine.