May 14, 2009
“The Fantasticks” 50th Anniversary and Me
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Just two weekends ago, on May 3, 2009, The Fantasticks held a 50th Anniversary Reunion for alumni and friends in New York and I was part of the celebration. This musical icon opened on May 3rd, 1960 at the 152 seat Sullivan Street Theater off-Broadway. It closed forty-two years later in January, 2002, after 17,231 consecutive performances, of which I played El Gallo approximately five hundred times in two six month stints in 1965 and 1967.
A revival is happily in place at the Jerry Orbach theater at 50th & Broadway, named for the equally iconic actor, singer, dancer and entertainer who was the original El Gallo.
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