[NEohioPAL] Go Behind THE FANTASTICKS!

Thu Apr 14 10:37:23 PDT 2016

*THE MUSICAL THEATER PROJECT PRESENTS “BEHIND THE MUSICAL: THE FANTASTICKS”
FOR TWO PERFORMANCES*

The Musical Theater Project (TMTP) will produce “Behind the Musical: *The
Fantasticks*” for two performances on Saturday, April 30 (7pm) at Stocker
Arts Center at Lorain County Community College, and Sunday, May 1 (3pm) at
Regina Auditorium at Notre Dame College.

The popular “Behind the Musical” series was created by TMTP to explore the
story of a beloved musical’s creation.  These multi-media concerts include
archival footage, first-account interviews and live performances of all the
beloved songs from the show.  Previous musicals featured in this series
include *Hello, Dolly!*, *Fiddler on the Roof*, *Carousel*, *The Music Man*
and *My Fair Lady*.

“Behind the Musical: *The Fantasticks*” is co-hosted by TMTP’s artistic
director Bill Rudman and associate artistic director/music director Nancy
Maier and features Shane Patrick O’Neill, Michelle Pauker and George Roth.
Performing the songs of El Gallo (a role originated by Jerry Orbach) will
be local favorite Fabio Polanco.

Hailed as “The world’s longest running musical,” the 56-year old classic by
Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt recently celebrated 20,000 performances
off-Broadway. This concert will explore the show’s rich history and
includes the evergreen songs “Soon It’s Gonna Rain” and “Try to Remember.”
And it gets Northeast Ohio audiences ready for Great Lakes Theater’s full
production of the musical in May.

Rudman says: “It’s been called ‘The Little Musical That Could,’ and that’s
an understatement. It was experimental when it opened, by the mid-1960s had
had become legendary, and it remains timeless in its appeal. In fact, for
Nancy Maier and me, *The Fantasticks *is a perfect creation.”

Stocker Arts Center is located at 1005 N. Abbe Road in Elyria on the campus
of Lorain County Community College. Adult tickets are priced at $15.  Student
(age 18 and under) tickets are priced at $10. Tickets are available through
the Stocker Arts Center Box Office at 440-366-4040 or
www.StockerArtsCenter.com <http://www.stockerartscenter.com/>.

Notre Dame College is located at 4545 College Road in South Euclid. General
tickets are priced at $25. TMTP Member tickets are priced at $20. Tickets
are available through TMTP’s Box Office at 216-245-8687 or
www.MusicalTheaterProject.org <http://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/>.

“Behind the Musical: *The Fantasticks*” is presented as part of “The Song
Is You!” concert and cabaret season produced each year by The Musical
Theater Project at a variety of locations.
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