'Fantasticks' Cast and Creative Team To Ring NYSE Closing Bell 8/19
By: Faetra Petillo
Writer Tom Jones joined by cast members Nick Spangler and Margaret Anne Florence, of the Broadway musical The Fantasticks, will visit the New York Stock Exchange and ring The Closing Bell on Tues., August 19.
The Fantasticks is the longest-running musical in the world. The original production ran for 17,162 performances at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village. The Fantasticks is the only Off-Broadway musical to win a Tony Award (for Excellence in the Theater). It is also the most frequently produced musical with over 11,000 performances in the United States in over 3,000 cities and towns. It has played all fifty states, plus Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. (Source: The Fantasticks) The Fantasticks is a captivating and simple love story about a boy, a girl, two fathers and a wall. The audience uses its imagination to follow El Gallo as he creates a world of moonlight and magic, and then pain and disillusionment, until the boy and girl find their way back to one other. The score, which includes "Try To Remember," "They Were You" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain," is as timeless as the story itself.