THE FANTASTICKS
JULY 9, 14*, 16, 20, 24, 28, 30*, 31, 2021 (*matinee)
Photo by: Waldron Creative
Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre’s Production of
THE FANTASTICKS
Book and Lyrics by TOM JONES
Music by HARVEY SCHMIDT
The Musical is suggested by a play Les Romanesque by Edmund Rostand. Since its opening in May 1960 at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York, and its subsequent revival at the Jerry Orbach Theatre, The Fantasticks remains the longest-running production of any kind in the history of American theatre. *NOTE The tambourine in tonight’s performance is one of three artifacts remaining from the original production of FANTASTICKS used opening night, May 3, 1960. The other two are the actor’s trunk on display at the Smithsonian Institute and the moon in the personal collection of Tom Jones, lyricist/ book writer. The tambourine was given to Michael Ballam on January 14, 2002, the morning after FANTASTICKS closed at the Sullivan Street Playhouse after 17,162 performances before moving uptown where it shut down during COVID 19 after having played 21,552 performances. FANTASTICKS surpasses the second longest-running Broadway Musical, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by nearly double.
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