Ken Fallin Illustrates: THE FANTASTICKS

BroadwayWorld.com is pleased to introduce illustrator Ken Fallin, who will be bringing to you original illustrations of everyone's favorite theatrical stars each week. This week's feature: the 50th anniversary production of THE FANTASTICKS with Edward Watts, Kimberly Whalen, Steve Routman, Tom Jones, Michael Nostrand, Matt Leisy, Gene Jones, and Erik Altemus.

Ken Fallin's career has spanned work in advertising, theatre, network television and, most notably, in print for publications such as In Style magazine, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. His work has illustrated major ad campaigns for American Express, SHOWTIME, Belvedere Vodka, and CNBC.

He considers legendary caricaturist Al Hirschfeld as a major influence, and mimicked his style early in his career for the Forbidden Broadway drawings. Other influences include the German "degenerate" portrait artists of the 1920s, Aubrey Beardsley, Frank Gehry, Eero Saarinen, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Dame Edna Everage.

  
Edward Watts as El Gallo, Kimberly Whalen as Luisa, Steve Routman as Bellomy, Tom Jones as The Old Actor, Michael Nostrand as The Indian, Matt Leisy as The Mute, Gene Jones as Hucklebee, and Erik Altemus as Matt

Illustration by Ken Fallin; www.kenfallin.com