NewsExclusive: A Trove of Rarely-Seen Photos of The FantasticksThe long-running Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks narrowly averted closing May 3 when a pair of deep-pocketed fans stepped in to help producers with a sum that they said will keep the show running for the foreseeable future.
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Robert Viagas, Matt Blank
June 20, 2015
As a celebration of the show's rebirth, producer Catherine Russell released to 半岛体育.com a treasury of rarely-seen photos from throughout the show's original run (1960-2002) at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village, and its current revival (2006-present) at the Theatre near Times Square.
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as The Girl, in a photo dated 1963.
Seated on stage: Alice Cannon and Ty McConnel. Seated on bench (L-R): Charlie Blackburn and John High. Standing (L-R): James Cook and , in a 1963 photo by Sam Seigel.
The first ad for The Fantasticks, listing the original cast. Top price during previews is listed as $3.90. Top price after the opening 鈥� skyrocketed to $4.90 ("tax included").
Photo of a 1990 U.S. tour that starred (front) as El Gallo. Also in the cast (L-R) (currently on Broadway as Shylock in ), Neil Nash, Glory Crampton and Ralston Hill.
Composer (top) and lyricist-librettist , circa late 1970s.
(L-R): Jerry Orbach, and an unidentified man, possibly , reunite for TV host Mike Douglas in the mid 1960s.
Lyricist Tom Jones (a.k.a. Thomas Bruce) working with original El Gallo Jerry Orbach in a photo (signed in 1966 but taken in late 1959 or early 1960) from Orbach's personal collection.
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Exclusive: A Treasury of Rarely Seen Photos of The Fantasticks
Exclusive: A Treasury of Rarely Seen Photos of The Fantasticks
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Alice Cannon, 1963
Alice Cannon, Ty McConnell, Charlie Blackburn, John High, James Cook and John Cunningham in 1963
BJ Ward at the 2000th performance
BJ Ward and Jon Boni at the 2000th performance
Curt Williams, Leta Anderson and Don Pomes in 1967
The piece stars Obie Award winner Jodie Markell as propagandist filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, whose work in service of the Nazis defined the visual identity of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
The Broadway alum's golden vocals brought Old Deuteronomy from Cats and the Lion from The Wiz to life, along with Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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