The SF Playhouse (Bill English, Artistic Director; Susi Damilano, Producing Director) announces casting for its summer show, The Fantasticks .
The cast features: Tarek Khan* as El Gallo, and Jeremy Kahn, Yusef Lambert, Sepideh Moafi, Louis Parnell*, Joan Mankin*, Norman Munoz and Ray Reinhardt*.
The original production of The Fantasticks opened on May 3, 1960 at the Sullivan Street Playhouse - a small theatre in New York's Greenwich Village. The musical tradition created by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt continues to this day. The Fantasticks is now running strong at the Snapple Theatre and is set to begin its 50th year.Tom Jones (book and lyrics) and Harvey Schmidt (music) created The Fantasticks in the spirit of a whimsical Romeo & Juliet. The Boy and The Girl grow up next door to each other, separated by a wall their feuding fathers built to keep them apart. Knowing their children would do anything they said "no" to, the forbidden wall makes The Boy and The Girl fall wildly in love with each other. Once they discover that their fathers actually planned the whole thing to get them together, their romance suffers a series of whimsical and melodramatic developments. In the end, aided by a mysterious swashbuckling dream-weaver and his comical associates, the lovers mature, and love conquers all.
The previously announced show The Full Monty, will be replaced by The Fantasticks. All tickets issued continue to be valid, only the show has changed.
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