'The Fantasticks' Returns To Snapple June 16th

THE FANTASTICKS, the world's longest-running musical, will return after a brief hiatus to Broadway's Snapple Theater Center for performances beginning June 16, 2008.  The romantic, funny "boy meets girl" tale, with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, features Dennis Parlato as the narrator, El Gallo, and Nick Spangler and Erica Piccininni as the two young lovers.  The production is directed by Jones.

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.

Having played a record-breaking 17,162 performances in its initial run at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village, THE FANTASTICKS has been performed in every corner of the world, from Afghanistan to Iran to Zimbabwe.  It is the only Off-Broadway show to have won a Tony Award (for Excellence in the Theater), and it has become a true New York institution.  In fact, Mayor Michael Bloomberg attended the New Year's Eve performance before ringing in 2008 in Times Square.

The original 1960 company starred the late Jerry Orbach as El Gallo.  Last June, the theater that is home to this revival of THE FANTASTICKS was christened The Jerry Orbach Theater.  Other notable performers who have appeared in the company include F. Murray Abraham, Glenn Close, Liza Minnelli and Elliot Gould.  Most recently, American Idol finalist Anthony Federov appeared in this revival as The Boy.

In addition to Parlato, Spangler and Piccininni, the cast includes Gene Jones, Jordan Nichols, Steve Routman, John Shuman and John Thomas Waite.

The performance schedule is as follows: Monday at 8PM, Wednesday at 2PM, Thursday and Friday at 8PM, Saturday at 2 & 8PM, and Sunday at 3 & 7:15PM.  Tickets, priced $51 - $76, are available by calling the box office at (212) 921-7862 or Ticketmaster.com at (212) 307-4100.  Specially-priced $31 student rush tickets are also available the day of the performance.

The Snapple Theater Center is located at 210 West 50th Street (at Broadway).

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