PERFORMANCE DATES
Begins October 22
WHERE
Hayes Theater
HAYES THEATER / BROADWAY
THE FANTASTICKS
BOOK & LYRICS BY TOM JONES
MUSIC BY HARVEY SCHMIDT
REVISED BOOK & LYRICS BY TOM JONES
DIRECTED & CHOREOGRAPHED BY CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI
WITH MAXIM CHLUMECKY, KEVIN DEL AGUILA, DAVID PATRICK KELLY, LESLIE RODRIGUEZ KRITZER, NATHAN LEVY, RUTHIE ANN MILES, ZANE PHILLIPS, AHMAD SIMMONS
Two boys. Their two mothers. And a mischievous plan to make the young men fall in love. This is The Fantasticks, known and adored across the globe, in a Broadway premiere that brings glorious new life to the beloved classic. With a book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, this inspired reinterpretation celebrates love, reconciliation, and the singular power of theater. Brilliantly reconceived by Jones himself, it retains all the heart and humor that have made The Fantasticks one of the most iconic musicals of all time. Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli (Schmigadoon!, Newsies) directs.
Produced in association with Broadway & Beyond Theatricals, Daryl Roth, and True North Theatricals.
Second Stage Theater’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The Season is supported by a grant from the Howard Gilman Foundation.
(s) Student Matinee
*Across the Boards — Join members of the creative team for a discussion following the performance.
(i) Insider's Night — An exclusive event for 2ST Subscribers. Join us one hour before for wine, hors d’oeuvres, and intimate discussion with one of the show’s designers.
OC Open Captioned Performance — Text is displayed at the side of the stage in real time, including dialogue and sound effects from the production.
AD Audio Described Performance — Using special audio equipment, commentary and narration is provided during the performance, guiding the listener through the show with descriptions of scenes, costumes, etc. in between dialogue or songs.
MAXIM CHLUMECKY
Broadway: Appropriate, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Off Broadway: A Christmas Carol (PAC). Regional: Asolo Repertory Theatre, Bay Street Theatre. TV/Film: “Law and Order” (NBC), “Law and Order: SVU” (NBC), “Blue Bloods” (CBS), ”Harlem” (Amazon Studios), “Billions” (Showtime). Training: Pace University. Infinite thanks to CGF Talent and Patrick Goodwin. For my mom, dad, Lynn, and Nick. Thanks a TON for coming!! :)
KEVIN DEL AGUILA
KEVIN DEL AGUILA received a Tony nomination and Drama Desk Award for his performance as Osgood in Some Like It Hot. Other Broadway credits include Frozen (Oaken), Peter and the Starcatcher (Smee), Yellow Face, and Rocky. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare in the Park), Jacques Brel, and God Bless You Mr. Rosewater (Encores!). TV/film: “Peg+Cat,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Deadbeat,” “Hazbin Hotel,” and Disney’s Frozen. Kevin is also an Emmy-winning TV writer, celebrated lyricist, and book-writer of the musical Altar Boyz. @kevinoftheeagle
DAVID PATRICK KELLY
DAVID PATRICK KELLY has appeared in films by Walter Hill, David Lynch, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders and Clint Eastwood. Onstage he has appeared in plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Gogol, Euripides, Buchner, Pirandello, Moliere, Brecht and Ibsen, directed by Richard Foreman, Nicholas Hytner and Karin Coonrod, Lear Debessonet, Rachel Chavkin, Daniel Fish and Sam Gold. He was awarded an Obie for Sustained Excellence and was featured/played mandolin in the Grammy and Tony winning ONCE.
LESLIE RODRIGUEZ KRITZER
Broadway: Spamalot (Tony nomination), Beetlejuice (Drama Desk and Drama League nominations), Celebrity Autobiography, Something Rotten!, Elf, Sondheim on Sondheim, Legally Blonde, A Catered Affair, and Hairspray. Select theater: The Robber Bridegroom (Lortel Award, Drama League nom.), and The Great American Trailer Park Musical. Television: She is known as Rosie on Amazon/A24’s hit "Hazbin Hotel" (Imagen Award nom), "The First Lady," "New Amsterdam," "Vinyl," and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" as Carol Burnett. She's also created several acclaimed solo shows.
NATHAN LEVY
NATHAN LEVY was most recently seen as François in & Juliet on Broadway. Other Broadway: Aladdin (Omar), Once Upon a One More Time (Clumsy), Dear Evan Hansen (u/s Evan, Jared). National Tour: Aladdin, Dear Evan Hansen. Regional: The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation (Rusty, The Fifth Avenue Theatre), Peter Pan (Curly, PCLO). BFA, Pace University. A Southern California native. Sending love and endless gratitude to Pat Goodwin, CGF, friends and family. @nathanlevy
RUTHIE ANN MILES
RUTHIE ANN MILES most recently appeared on Broadway in McNeal at Lincoln Center Theater. Notable stage credits include Lady Thiang in The King And I (2015 Tony Award winner), Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2023 Tony Award nomination), and Imelda Marcos in Here Lies Love (2014 Lucille Lortel Award winner). On television, she is best known as Sherri Kansky on CBS’ “All Rise” and as Young-Hee Seong in FX’s “The Americans.”
ZANE PHILLIPS
ZANE PHILLIPS is an actor and singer from Fredericksburg, TX, now based in LA. National Tour: The Sound of Music (Rolf). TV credits include: The final season of HBO’s “The Comeback” with Lisa Kudrow (recurring); Netflix’s “Glamorous” (series regular); AppleTV’s “Loot” (recurring); “Good Trouble" (recurring); “Mid-Century Modern” (recurring); “Legacies” (series regular); “Partner Track” (recurring). Film: Fire Island. Regional theater credits include Hair (Claude), Mamma Mia (Sky), Hairspray (Link), and The Fantasticks (The Boy). BFA, Elon University.
AHMAD SIMMONS
AHMAD SIMMONS is a NYC based performing artist, choreographer, creative director, and independent producer across stage and screen. Broadway: Illinoise, Hadestown, West Side Story, Carousel, Cats. Off-Broadway: Gotta Dance! (Stage 42), Only Gold (MCC), A Chorus Line (NYCC). TV/Film: Maestro, FX’s “Fosse/Verdon,” “The Comeback,” “Better Nate Than Ever,” The Kennedy Center Honors, and multiple Tony Awards. Concert Dance: Parsons Dance Company, River North Dance Chicago, and Detroit Metropolitan Dance. Resident choreographer: Hamilton (Philip Tour) Associate Choreographer: Hadestown (2021). Proud graduate of Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts.
BOOK & LYRICS BY TOM JONES
MUSIC BY HARVEY SCHMIDT
TOM JONES (Revised Book and Lyrics) and HARVEY SCHMIDT (Music) met at the University of Texas at Austin where they wrote their first musical together, Time Staggers On. After coming to New York, they wrote The Fantasticks for a summer theatre production at Barnard College. After its Off Broadway opening in May 1960, it ran for an incredible 42 years becoming the longest running musical in the world and the longest-running uninterrupted show of any kind in the history of the American theatre.
Their first Broadway show, 110 in the Shade, was nominated for a Tony Award and was successfully revived by the New York City Opera and later produced on Broadway starring Audra MacDonald. I Do! I Do!, their two-character musical starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston, was also a success on Broadway and on tour.
Additional collaborations include Celebration, which moved to Broadway; Philemon, which won an Outer Critics Circle Award and was produced on Hollywood Television Theatre; Mirette, based on the award-winning children’s book; The Show Goes On, a musical revue featuring their theatre songs and starring Jones and Schmidt; and Roadside, based on a play by Lynn Riggs. They contributed incidental music and lyrics to the Off-Broadway play Colette starring Zoe Caldwell, then developed a full-scale musical version starring Diana Rigg, which was later revised under the title Colette Collage.
In addition to an Obie Award and a special Tony Award for “Excellence in the Theatre” for The Fantasticks, Jones and Schmidt were inducted into the Broadway Hall of Fame at the Gershwin Theatre, and their “stars” were added to the Off-Broadway Walk of Fame outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre. In 2012, they were inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame and in 2017, they received the Oscar Hammerstein Award. For more information on their work together and separately, visit their extensive website: www.JonesandSchmidt.com.
DIRECTED & CHOREOGRAPHED BY CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI
CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI (Director, Choreographer). Currently represented on Broadway with Schmigadoon! (Tony noms. for Direction and Choreography), Death Becomes Her (Tony noms. for Direction and Choreography) and Ragtime (creative consultant). Tony Award winner for Disney’s Newsies. Broadway: 20 productions including My Fair Lady, SpongeBob SquarePants, The King and I and South Pacific. Lortel Awards for Bat Boy, Dogfight and Altar Boyz. Other dir./chor.: R&H 80th Anniversary Concert at the Drury Lane in London, Silence! The Musical, Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, In Your Arms. Film: Wonka; Isn’t It Romantic?; Hail, Caesar! Television: “Schmigadoon!” (Two Emmy nominations), “Miracle Workers”, “Bupkis” and “The Muppet Show” with Sabrina Carpenter and Seth Rogen.