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Eight times a week, from 1960 to 2002, the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York City’s Greenwich Village played midwife to a musical theater ritual that attracted theatergoers from across the globe. That show was the legendary and beloved Fantasticks, and for 42 years and 17,162 performances, a legion of performers—including future luminaries such as F. Murray Abraham, Ricardo Montalban, Elliott Gould, Liza Minnelli, Glenn Close, Richard Chamberlain and John Carradine—played out its sweetly timeless boy-meets-girl tale. On the eve of The Fantasticks’ final Off-Broadway performance, documentary filmmaker Eli Kabillio takes a wistful look back at the show’s genesis, its creators and, above all, its continued worldwide popularity.
Original Release
05/14/2003
US Release
05/14/2003
Cast
Name | Character |
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F. Murray Abraham | Himself / Self |
Jim Cook | Self |
David Edwards | Self |
Jeremy Ellison-Gladstone | Self |
Ira Joe Fisher | Self |
Rita Gardner | Herself / Self |
Natasha Harper | Self |
Lore Noto | Self |
Jerry Orbach | Himself / Self |
Harvey Schmidt | Himself / Self |
Directors
Cast
Name | Character |
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F. Murray Abraham | Himself / Self |
Jim Cook | Self |
David Edwards | Self |
Jeremy Ellison-Gladstone | Self |
Ira Joe Fisher | Self |
Rita Gardner | Herself / Self |
Natasha Harper | Self |
Lore Noto | Self |
Jerry Orbach | Himself / Self |
Harvey Schmidt | Himself / Self |
William Tost | Self |
Ragnar Thell | Self / Himself |
Václav Beránek | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Julie Davis | Executive Producer |
Anne Louise DePalo | Executive Producer |
James A. Ruggiero | Executive Producer |
Eli Kabillio | Producer |
Tony Noto | Producer |