Fantasticks
Tue, 6 Aug 2002, 11:55 amWalter Plinge12 posts in thread
Fantasticks
Tue, 6 Aug 2002, 11:55 amApparently Roleystone’s production of “The Fantasticks” opens tomorrow…
Does anyone out there know anything about this production?
Or for that matter does anyone know anything about the show itself?
It has been billed as the “World’s Longest Running Musical”.
I always though that title went to “Chorus Line”, but hey, what do I know, ACL closed quite a few years ago, something could have overtaken it…
I have seen the video of “Fantasticks” and didn’t like it, although all the reviews of it I read said that it was a very disappointing version of a great musical.
(Would this make it like “Camelot”? Great show, shame about the film…)
Has “Fantasticks” been done in Perth before? Recently I mean.
IÂ’ll most probably go see the show anyway, it certainly not one of these shows that gets dragged out every couple of months, but IÂ’d like to go in there with a little bit of advance warning as to what to expectÂ…
Does anyone out there know anything about this production?
Or for that matter does anyone know anything about the show itself?
It has been billed as the “World’s Longest Running Musical”.
I always though that title went to “Chorus Line”, but hey, what do I know, ACL closed quite a few years ago, something could have overtaken it…
I have seen the video of “Fantasticks” and didn’t like it, although all the reviews of it I read said that it was a very disappointing version of a great musical.
(Would this make it like “Camelot”? Great show, shame about the film…)
Has “Fantasticks” been done in Perth before? Recently I mean.
IÂ’ll most probably go see the show anyway, it certainly not one of these shows that gets dragged out every couple of months, but IÂ’d like to go in there with a little bit of advance warning as to what to expectÂ…
Walter PlingeTue, 6 Aug 2002, 11:55 am
Apparently Roleystone’s production of “The Fantasticks” opens tomorrow…
Does anyone out there know anything about this production?
Or for that matter does anyone know anything about the show itself?
It has been billed as the “World’s Longest Running Musical”.
I always though that title went to “Chorus Line”, but hey, what do I know, ACL closed quite a few years ago, something could have overtaken it…
I have seen the video of “Fantasticks” and didn’t like it, although all the reviews of it I read said that it was a very disappointing version of a great musical.
(Would this make it like “Camelot”? Great show, shame about the film…)
Has “Fantasticks” been done in Perth before? Recently I mean.
IÂ’ll most probably go see the show anyway, it certainly not one of these shows that gets dragged out every couple of months, but IÂ’d like to go in there with a little bit of advance warning as to what to expectÂ…
Does anyone out there know anything about this production?
Or for that matter does anyone know anything about the show itself?
It has been billed as the “World’s Longest Running Musical”.
I always though that title went to “Chorus Line”, but hey, what do I know, ACL closed quite a few years ago, something could have overtaken it…
I have seen the video of “Fantasticks” and didn’t like it, although all the reviews of it I read said that it was a very disappointing version of a great musical.
(Would this make it like “Camelot”? Great show, shame about the film…)
Has “Fantasticks” been done in Perth before? Recently I mean.
IÂ’ll most probably go see the show anyway, it certainly not one of these shows that gets dragged out every couple of months, but IÂ’d like to go in there with a little bit of advance warning as to what to expectÂ…
Georgia MaloneTue, 6 Aug 2002, 05:23 pm
Re: Fantasticks
Thats right, The Fantasticks is the longest the longest running broadway musical, starting in the 60's i think to finally close this year. it is a great show with a great script.
Hasn't been performed in Perth for 25 years but coincedently as Roleystone theatre was deciding to do this show, so was our company, unfortunately they beat us to the rights!
Georgia
Hasn't been performed in Perth for 25 years but coincedently as Roleystone theatre was deciding to do this show, so was our company, unfortunately they beat us to the rights!
Georgia
Amanda ChestertonTue, 6 Aug 2002, 05:31 pm
Re: Fantasticks
Georgia wrote:
> Hasn't been performed in Perth for 25 years ...
... with the exception of the GRADS production at the Dolphin in about 1988/1989, of course.
Thou dankish flap-mouthed strumpet!
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> Hasn't been performed in Perth for 25 years ...
... with the exception of the GRADS production at the Dolphin in about 1988/1989, of course.
Thou dankish flap-mouthed strumpet!
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Amanda ChestertonTue, 6 Aug 2002, 05:39 pm
Re: Fantasticks....also
Fantasticks was the longest running OFF-Broadway musical - it finished in the US in 1983 (I know, coz I was there). I think, however, it does hold the record as the world's longest running musical, on or off Broadway, West-End, anywhere. The Fantasticks that closed this year was a revival production that only opened a couple of years ago (if that - possibly less than a year) - it may even have been on Broadway for the first time in the musical's history.
Cats is (was) the longest running Broadway musical, the title it took from A Chorus Line, hence your mix up, Gloria.
Songs you may recognise are 'Try To Remember' which was covered by a few 60s singers and, if you're a show-tune buff, 'Much More', a soprano audition standard.
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Cats is (was) the longest running Broadway musical, the title it took from A Chorus Line, hence your mix up, Gloria.
Songs you may recognise are 'Try To Remember' which was covered by a few 60s singers and, if you're a show-tune buff, 'Much More', a soprano audition standard.
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TobyTue, 6 Aug 2002, 06:40 pm
Re: Fantasticks....also
Sorry, Amanda - but I must interject.
The Fantasticks ran non-stop from 1960 to 2002 Off Broadway. I think it was simply a mix-up in terms - plenty of people use 'Broadway' when they mean 'New York in General'. It most certainly did not shut in 1983 and the one that closed this year in the original Sullivan Street theatre was the same one. As you say - 'I know, cause I was there!' - I saw it twice in two days in 2000 and loved every minute. Not sure where your closing info came from - other than various threats to close, mostly to re-arouse interest in it, it ran non-stop for 42 years, for 17, 162 performances.
Oh, and don't see the film. Don't be fooled by Joel Gray (or that guy from New Kids on the Block). Buy the CD of the original cast, and be transported.
Toby
The Fantasticks ran non-stop from 1960 to 2002 Off Broadway. I think it was simply a mix-up in terms - plenty of people use 'Broadway' when they mean 'New York in General'. It most certainly did not shut in 1983 and the one that closed this year in the original Sullivan Street theatre was the same one. As you say - 'I know, cause I was there!' - I saw it twice in two days in 2000 and loved every minute. Not sure where your closing info came from - other than various threats to close, mostly to re-arouse interest in it, it ran non-stop for 42 years, for 17, 162 performances.
Oh, and don't see the film. Don't be fooled by Joel Gray (or that guy from New Kids on the Block). Buy the CD of the original cast, and be transported.
Toby
Amanda ChestertonTue, 6 Aug 2002, 09:57 pm
Re: Fantasticks....also
Ah...I stand corrected. My info came from that fact that I was in New York in '83 and we asked my cousin if we could get tickets to The Fantasticks. He, an actor himself, said that it had closed couple of weeks earlier. BASTARD!
I freely admit my error. And thank-you for the warning about the movie - I was thinking it couldn't be too bad if Joel Grey was in it, but obviously...
PS I won't buy the CD of the original cast - the original cast recording on vinyl mum bought in New York in the 60s will do me just fine ;-)
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I freely admit my error. And thank-you for the warning about the movie - I was thinking it couldn't be too bad if Joel Grey was in it, but obviously...
PS I won't buy the CD of the original cast - the original cast recording on vinyl mum bought in New York in the 60s will do me just fine ;-)
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crgwllmsWed, 7 Aug 2002, 02:36 am
Re: Fantasticks and leaves an orange stain
Georgia wrote:
> unfortunately they beat us to the rights!
...so does this mean they beat you with a fantaSTICK...?
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> unfortunately they beat us to the rights!
...so does this mean they beat you with a fantaSTICK...?
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Walter PlingeWed, 7 Aug 2002, 07:56 am
Re: Fantasticks....also
1983??? How old were you then, Amanda? 3 or 4?
I'm amazed you can even remember!
Thou puny sheep-biting nut-hook!
I'm amazed you can even remember!
Thou puny sheep-biting nut-hook!
Georgia MaloneWed, 7 Aug 2002, 01:57 pm
Re: Fantasticks and leaves an orange stain
quite right craig... quite right...
Walter PlingeSat, 10 Aug 2002, 04:30 am
Re: Fantasticks
"The Fantasticks" was also performed in Perth, sometime in the last 25 years, by Stirling Theatre (at least I think it was them or maybe it was the GRADS production I saw). The production I saw had Georgette Nicoski in it, anyone remember her and which company put on this particular production?
Walter PlingeSat, 10 Aug 2002, 12:55 pm
Re: Fantasticks
It was a GRADS production at the Dolphin theatre in the late '80's. It was directed by Maureen Eaton. 'El Gallo' was played by John Low.
GillTue, 20 Aug 2002, 11:02 pm
Re: Fantasticks
Checked my database of shows seen (oh, how anal) and I saw "The Fantasticks" on the 22nd of August, 1990. I guess that we are still talking about the same show but I have it down as being a Stirling production. Hmmm! Maybe I got confused because Maureen worked with them alot....anyhoo.
PS: Say "hi" to the lovely Jaquie for me please Craig.
PS: Say "hi" to the lovely Jaquie for me please Craig.