“The Fantasticks”
Book & Lyrics by Tom Jones
Music by Harvey Schmidt
Venue:
ProArts Playhouse – Azeka (Makai) Shopping Center, 1280 South Kihei Rd., Kihei
Performance Schedule:
December 10-19, and January 7-16
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pm
Also Thursday January 13 at 7:30 pm
Friday December 10 7:30 pm
Saturday December 11 7:30 pm
Friday December 17 7:30 pm
Saturday December 18 7:30 pm
Sunday December 19 2:00 pm
**CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR’S BREAK**
Friday January 7 7:30 pm
Saturday January 8 7:30 pm
Sunday January 9 2:00 pm
Thursday January 13 7:30 pm
Friday January 14 7:30 pm
Saturday January 15 7:30 pm
Sunday January 16 2:00 pm
Ticket Prices:
All Reserved Seats
$25.00 – Adults
$20.00 – Children (12 & under)
Purchase Tickets and Information:
By phone: 808-463-6520
Website: www.proartspacific.com
Featuring:
From the creative team that brought you “Urinetown” and “Cabaret”, “The Fantasticks” is brought to life in Kihei by Maui’s best performers: Robert Wills as El Gallo, the Narrator, Leighanna Locke as The Girl, Tom Althouse as The Boy, Dale Button as The Girl’s Father, Jonathan Lehman as The Boy’s Father, John Peterson as The Old Actor, Kalani Whitford as The Man Who Dies, and James Natividad as The Mute.
Synopsis:
A wonderful parable of love, “The Fantasticks” with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, tells the story of a young man and the girl next door, whose feuding parents have built a wall to keep them apart. The youngsters nevertheless contrive to meet and fall in love. Their parents congratulate themselves, for they have staged the feud in order to achieve, by negation, a marriage between their disobedient children. A narrator sets the imagined scene and, in the role of professional abductor, pretends to fall before the onslaught of the young man, letting the boy think he is a hero. The night is full of moonlight and romance. The sun comes up and the day brings an end to dreams. The lovers must now face reality. The dashing vagabond, who was their guide to romance and illusion, becomes their instructor in disillusionment. It is only when he has shown the boy the harshness of the world, and has let the girl see that love can be false, that they come to understand each other. “The Fantasticks” features such great tunes as “Try to Remember”, “Soon It’s Gonna Rain”, “I Can See It, ” and “They Were You.”
All ages will enjoy this wonderful parable of love which runs 2 hours and 15 minutes, including intermission.