The Fantasticks, "the most child-friendly show currently playing in the theater district" (Terry Teachout, Arts Journal), invites kids to see the show for free at select weekend performances throughout February. Children age 16 and under will receive a free ticket and a free Fantasticks CD sampler with each paying adult for performances on Saturdays at 2 PM and Sundays at 3 PM and 7:15 PM. The Fantasticks plays at The Snapple Theater Center, 210 West 50th Street at Broadway.
To take advantage of the offer, call the box office at (212) 921-7862 or Ticketmaster.com at (212) 307-4100 and use the code KIDS09. Tickets must be purchased by Monday, February 23.
The Fantasticks, with music by
Harvey Schmidt and book, lyrics and direction by
Tom Jones, is a captivating and simple musical comedy about a boy and girl who fall in and out of love at the hands of their meddling fathers. The audience uses its imagination to follow the narrator, El Gallo, as he creates a world of moonlight and magic until the boy and girl find their way back to one other. The score, which includes the hit songs "Try To Remember," "They Were You" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain," is as timeless as the story itself.
Having played a record-breaking 17,162 performances in its original run at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village,
The Fantasticks is the longest-running musical in the world.
The Fantasticks company includes
Lewis Cleale (Broadway's Monty Python's Spamalot, Amour, Once Upon A Mattress), recent Amazing Race winner
Nick Spangler,
Betsy Morgan The Little Mermaid on Broadway), No Country for Old Men's
Gene Jones,
John Thomas Waite (title role in Broadway's Amadeus),
Scott Willis (Broadway's Crazy for You and 42nd Street),
Tom Flagg (Broadway's
Will Rogers Follies, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Oklahoma),
Steve Routman (The Keen Company's The Conscientious Objector, Awake and Sing! at
Arena Stage),
Michael Nostrand, (A&E's Emmy Award-winning Peter Pan, national tours of Jelly's Last Jam, The Mystery of Edwin Drood,)
Jordan Nichols (Tulsa in Gypsy at Westchester Broadway) and
Evy Ortiz.
The complete performance schedule is as follows: Mondays at 8PM, Wednesdays at 2PM, Thursdays and Fridays at 8PM, Saturdays at 2PM & 8PM, and Sundays at 3PM & 7:15PM.
