The Fantasticks

'The Fantasticks''s Matt Leisy is silent no longer by Jesse North

The Fantasticks is giving Matt Leisy his voice, literally and figuratively. After playing the Mute (yes, a non-speaking role) for a year and understudying the young lover Matt, Leisy was pro…

Matt Leisy to Play Matt in The Fantasticks Off-Broadway

Matt Leisy will assume the role of Matt in the Off-Broadway company of The Fantasticks, playing at the Snapple Theatre Center, on December 6. He replaces Erik Altemus, who will play his fin…

A Fantasticks Return by Noreply@blogger.com ( )

In our book Stage Money, we note repeatedly that the little off-Broadway show The Fantasticks has been an outlier--a very unusual example--in the financial history of commercial theater in A…

'Fantasticks' magically rounds out Repertory Theater's season by Gabe Hartwig • Ghartwig@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8353

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis closes this season with its first-ever production of the world's longest-running musical, "The Fantasticks." The show opened off Broadway in 1960 and ran f…

Documentary of Final <cite>Fantasticks</cite> Performance Looking for Home

Documentary of Final Fantasticks Performance Looking for Home

PHOTO CALL: 17,162 Shows Old: Jones and Schmidt Bid Good-Bye to Fantasticks

PHOTO CALL: What Gallo: F. Murray Abraham Was Among Former Fantasticks

'Fantasticks' Will Trip the Lights No More by JAMES BARRON

After 17,162 performances, "The Fantasticks" closed on Sunday night. Now theatergoers can only try to remember. And to stop spelling words that end in "istic" with a K.

Remember Me - in Light: At the Final Performance of The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks Bids Farewell, Jan. 13, After 42 Years on Sullivan Street

'The Fantasticks' Is Ending Its 42-Year Run by PETER MARKS

On Sunday evening, after 17,162 performances, "The Fantasticks" will do the one thing that few thought it capable of. It will close.
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'FANTASTICKS' VOYAGE by CHIP DEFFAA

DWIGHT Eisenhower was president - and our current president was just shy of 14 - when "The Fantasticks" opened to far from enthusiastic reviews at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, in 1960.

Fantasticks Tix All Sold Out for Show's Last Three Weeks Off-Bway

OB's Fantasticks Donates Some Costumes to NYC Museum, Others Sold on Ebay

OB's Fantasticks Donates Some Costumes to NYC Museum, Others Sold on Ebay

OB's Fantasticks Donates Costumes to NYC Museum

Fantasticks Fans Gain a Week; Show Will Close Jan. 13

Buzz Lines: The other shoe has dropped, and The Fantasticks will end its marathon run on January 6, 2002.

And Era Ends: Fantasticks Posts Closing Notice for Jan. 2

Sale of theatre is sinking the longest-running musical in history.

The End Is Near for The Fantasticks

OB's Fantasticks Posts Jan. 6 Closing Notice

The End Is Near for The Fantasticks

Fantasticks Rescinds Plans to Close

Fantasticks Rescinds Plan To Close

The longest-running musical in history has rescinded warnings of "last weeks"