New York Musical Theater Festival Report: 'Baby Case' The New York Musical Theater Festival, better known as NYMF, has made a few good decisions this year. That includes moving the event to summer, squeezing all the productions into one convenient neighborhood and presenting Michael Ogborn's "Baby Case," directed by Jeremy Dobrish. Celebrity-centered crimes that flared into media sensations weren't quite so run-of-the-mill in 1932, when the 20-month-old son of the aviator and national hero Charles A. Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family's New Jersey home and found dead two months later. The kidnapping makes just the kind of dark, unlikely subject that composers working in the spirit of Kander & Ebb like to tackle. This production has rousing songs, big voices, stylish staging and choreography, first-rate lighting and handsome period costumes. And framing it with the radio bulletins of Walter Winchell (Michael Thomas Holmes), the celebrity-gossip king of his day, was a smart idea. The show's only real problem is a certain amorphousness. It's not clear whether this is a meant to be courtroom drama, media satire, soap opera or something else altogether. And it's not immediately clear whether our sympathies should lie with Lindbergh (Will Reynolds), the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and his wife, Anne (Anika Larsen), or with Bruno Hauptmann (Mr. Reynolds again), who is accused of - and possibly framed for - the crime. "Baby Case" continues through Sunday at the Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street, (212) 352-3101, nymf.org.