The festival invited them and would pick up their costs.
His big break came in 1962, when Joseph Papp, founder of the Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival, invited him to audition.
They will all invade Fort Tryon Park on Sunday, when the festival invites New Yorkers to party like it's 1199.
Very much a front-parlour showcase for favourite films, the festival invited people to turn up in pyjamas or bring their own home-baked cakes.
It is easy to see why the festival invited "Central Avenue Breakdown," which was part of the 2011 lineup, to return.
They performed 20 minutes at the festival, got all fired up and decided to go to any nearby festival, invited or not.
A new website, Unbound, launched at this year's Hay festival, invites would-be authors to pitch their unpublished work to investors, using the social media.
The festival invites more than 2,000 musicians from 30 different countries to perform at some of Montreal's many live venues - and outdoor performances are often free.
At its best, a festival invites audiences to hear certain works in a specific context, as with Brahms the Progressive, a festival the Miller Theater presented some seasons ago.
