by Barbara Waldinger Premiering on May 3, 1960 at the compact Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village, NYC, THE FANTASTICKS ran there for forty-two years: the longest-running off-Broadway musical in American history. How many Baby Boomers, including this reviewer, remember attending the play with its original cast (including Jerry Orbach…
by Jenny Hansell Don’t gore my ox, and I won’t gore yours. If I criticize the musical The Fantasticks, you may react with as much hostility as I did when I read the recent takedown of Hamilton in The Nation, in which the writer accused Lin-Manuel Miranda of glossing over…
Greenfield, MA – An ambitious selection of plays makes up Silverthorne Theater Company’s 2019 Season of plays and promises a banquet of theatrical experiences with something for all tastes. TALES OF THE LOST FORMICANS Our opening show Tales of the Lost Formicans, by Constance Congdon, is a modern classic. This witty and passionate play explores…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May, 2007 110 in the Shade is a little gem of a musical written by those masters of little musical gems – Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt – whose names are forever etched in musical theatre history as the creators of The Fantasticks. Like that phenomenally popular…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2001 What a delightful show! I cannot think of a happier way to spend the evening than up at Oldcastle in the company of Trudi Possey as Agnes and Richard Howe as Michael as they sprint through Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s 1966 musical…
