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Opening Wednesday, December 27, 1961
THE CHARLES PLAYHOUSEFRANK SUGRUE and MICHAEL MURRAY'
present
“THE FANTASTICKS”
book and lyrics by music by
TOM JONES HARVEY SCHMIDT
Directed by WILLIAM FRANCISCO
Musical Direction by RICHARD PARRINELLO
Lighting by Costumes byDAVID P. McGOWAN BARBARA BROWN
The Narrator
The Girl
The Boy
The Boy’s Father ..
The Girl’s Father ..
The Actor
The Man Who Dies
The Mute
The Handyman
At the Piano
At the Harp
CAST(In Order of Appearance)
RICHARD CURRYBARBARA QUANEYWILL MACKENZIEGWYLLUM EVANSDAVID VAUGHAN
STANLEY JAY
RICHARD A. KENERSONROBERT SOLOT
DAVID P. McGOWANRICHARD PARRINELLO
ARIEL HALL
“The Fantasticks” was originally produced off-Broadway by Lore Noto.
Original cast recording by M. G. M. Records
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ACT I
Overture
Try To Remember
Much More
Metaphor
Never Say No
It Depends On What You Pay
Soon It’s Gonna Rain
Rape Ballet
Happy Ending
The Company
The Narrator
The Girl
The Boy and the Girl
The Fathers
The Narrator and the Fathers
The Boy and the Girl
The Company
The Company
This Plum Is Too Ripe
I Can See It
Plant A Radish
Round And Round
They Were You
Try To Remember (Reprise)
ACT II
The Boy, the Girl, the Fathers
The Boy and the Narrator
The Fathers
The Narrator, the Girl and Company
The Boy and the Girl
The Narrator
Act One Takes Place in Moonlight.
Act Two Takes Place in the Sun.
This Musical is suggested by Edmund Rostand’s “Les Romantiques.”
There will be a 15 minute intermission between Acts.
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RICHARD CURRY (The Narrator)has been seen on Broadway oppositeKaye Ballard in “Ziegfeld Folies.” andin “Mister Wonderful,” “Out Of ThisWorld” and “The Devil’s Disciple.” Fora year he starred in “Paint Your Wag-on” in Australia and then proceeded to
sing his way around the world, appear-ing on TV, in clubs and films in Singa-pore, Hong Kong, Rome, Havana, Mex-ico City and Acapulco. His film credits
include “On The Town,” “Teresa” and“The Magnificent Seven.” Mr. Curryhas made recordings for RCA Victor, in-
cluding the successful recording of
“Mack The Knife” in Spanish whichbrought him offers to tour Central andSouth America.
BARBARA QUANEY (The Girl) re-
ceived rave reviews from New Yorkcritics for her performance in the re-
cent off-Broadway production, “I WantYou.” Her additional off-Broadwaycredits include “Electra” and “She ShallHave Music.” Miss Quaney has playedopposite Buster Keaton in the road com-pany of “Once Upon A Mattress.” Instock productions, she has appearedwith Gene Raymond in “Mister Roberts,”Julius La Rosa in “Carousel” and withGene Nelson and Peter Falk in “OutOf This World.” In New York, she stud-ied acting with Peter Kass.
WILL MACKENZIE (The Boy) whorecently received a Fulbright Scholar-ship to the London Academy of Musicand Drama, has appeared at the SpoletoFestival of Two Worlds in Menotti’s “Al-bum Leaves.” He has performed withthe Oregon Shakespeare Festival andthe American Shakespeare Festival. Forthe Equity Library Theatre, he perform-ed the role of Glyn Thomas in “TheCorn Is Green.” Stock appearances madeby this talented actor-singer include“Father of the Bride” with Henry Mor-gan, “Witness for the Prosecution” withBasil Rathbone at the Lakewood Theatre,Maine; “The Winslow Boy”. MonomoyTheatre, Cape Cod and “The Matchmak-er,” Missouri Summer Theatre.
GWYLLUM EVANS (The Boy’sFather) has performed off-Broadwayin “Love of Four Colonels”, “The Cock-tail Party”, “Heartbreak House”, “TheMerchant of Venice”, “Age and Grace”,“No Exit”, “The Crowning Glory”, “Al-ice in Wonderland.” He has toured withthe road companies of such popular pro-ductions as “The Tempest”, “Barrettsof Wimpole Street”, “Finian’s Rainbow”,“Detective Story”, “Sailor Beware”, and“The Skin of Our Teeth.” Mr. Evans
has appeared in over 200 productionsin major stock companies and has madetelevision appearances on Naked City,
Camera Three, U. S. Steel, Kraft Thea-tre, Omnibus, Studio One and numerousothers.
DAVID VAUGHAN (The Girl’s Fa-ther) is familiar to Charles Playhouseaudiences from last season’s productionof “The Cocktail Party.” Since then, hehas appeared at the Berkshire Playhouseopposite Anna Russell in “Breath ofSpring” and at the McCarter Theatreof Princeton as the Dauphin in Shaw’s“Saint Joan.” On Broadway, he wasseen in “Epitaph for George Dillon” and“The Country Wife.” He has played hispresent role in the New York produc-tion of “The Fantasticks.” Other off-
Broadway credits include George De-vine’s production of “The Way of theWorld” for the Institute for AdvancedStudies in the Theatre Arts, Lord Brock-hurse in the original off-Broadway pro-duction of “The Boy Friend”, and “Ma-drigal of War.” A Londoner by birthhe was educated at Wadham College,Oxford, and is a critic of dance and thecinema whose articles frequently appearin publications on both sides of the At-lantic.
STANLEY JAY (The Actor) is re-
creating the role which he performedin the New York cast of “The Fan-tasticks.” Most recently, he appearedat the Charles as the Old Man in Iones-co’s “The Chairs.” Mr. Jay was seenin the New York City Center productionsof “Henry IV”, and “Othello,” and hasperformed at the Cherry Lane Theatre,Bucks County Playhouse, and Province-town Playhouse. Television viewers haveseen him in the Omnibus production of“Androcles and the Lion,” and the Pro-ducers Showcase presentation of “Cy-rano de Bergerac,” and mrtnerous ap-pearances on Camera Three.
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WITH THE CAST (Continued)
RICHARD A. KENERSON (The ManWho Dies) is making his third appear-ance this season at the Charles. He wasseen earlier in “The Great God Brown”and as the Orator in Ionesco’s “TheChairs.” During the 1960-61 season atthe Charles, he played Stanley in “AStreetcar Named Desire,” and also ap-peared in “No Exit”, “The CocktailParty” and “All My Sons.” He has per-formed with Theatre-By-The-Sea, Matu-nuck, R. I.; the Edgartown SummerTheatre, Boston Arts Festival and theBoston Opera Group.
ROBERT SOLOT (The Mute) playedthe leading role in George Kelly’s “TheShow Off” for Greenwich Village’s LoebCenter, and has performed with the Fal-mouth Playhouse. He has studied withStuart Vaughan at the Phoenix Theatreand with Jose Quintero at Circle-In-The-Square.
DAVID P. McGOWAN (The Handy-man) performed with the Group 20 Play-ers in “Pygmalion,” “Much Ado AboutNothing,” “Man and Superman” and“Oedipus Rex.” He has worked as Tech-nical Director for Theatre-By-The-Sea,Matunuck, R. I., and for the off-Broad-way production of “Decameron.”
WILLIAM FRANCISCO (Director)most recently directed and co-producedthe off-Broadway musical, “The Sap ofLife,” a presentation of Quartet Pro-ductions for which he is Artistic Di-rector. He also directed the off-Broad-way musical review, “0, Oysters” at theVillage Gate Theatre. Mr. Francisco’sextensive directorial background includesthree years as staff director for theWilliamstown Summer Theatre, two
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musicals.
OTHER CHARLES PLAYHOUSEPRODUCTIONS THIS SEASON
OPENING NEXT
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW’S“YOU NEVER CAN TELL”
In this play, which ranks as one of
the most popular Shavian plays in Eng-land, Shaw displays an almost Dicken-
sian type of humor in his striking char-
acterizations and colorful situations.
The play also serves as a framework for
Shaw’s ideas and social criticism, and
demonstrates his ability to blend farce
with dramatic argument.
ANTON CHEKHOV’S“UNCLE VANYA”
LILLIAN HELLMAN’S“THE AUTUMN GARDEN”
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