Broadway.com resident artist Justin “Squigs” Robertson recently basked in the off-Broadway love at the Snapple Theatre Center and created a sketch to capture the mystical mood of The Fantasticks. The world’s longest running musical stars pop singer Aaron Carter as Matt, a lovestruck boy who falls for the lovely Luisa (Juliette Trafton). Squigs details the love affair, and ...

Mark off another day on the calendar: the holidays are almost here, and Broadway.com is celebrating the season with festive videos featuring Broadway's biggest stars. Aaron Carter is currently delighting audiences in off-Broadway's long-running romance, The Fantasticks. In 2001 Carter rang in Christmas by appearing in the holiday episode of the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire, opposite ...

Aaron Carter was only 13 when he made his Broadway debut as JoJo in Seussical, but he was already a veteran performer. Carter, who is back on the New York stage as rebellious young lover Matt in off-Broadway’s The Fantasticks, cut his teeth opening for the 1990s megagroup the Backstreet Boys, which featured his older brother Nick Carter. Aaron ...

Recording artist and actor Aaron Carter will join the off-Broadway cast of The Fantasticks in the role of rebellious young romantic Matt on November 7. He succeeds Matt Leisy, who will remain with the company in the role of The Mute. The musical continues its run at the Snapple Theatre Center.

The cast of The Fantasticks also includes Bradley Dean ...

Bradley Dean will be the newest cast member in the off-Broadway classic The Fantasticks, taking over the role of El Gallo beginning July 25 He replaces Edward Watts, who exits the production on July 24.

Dean joins a company that currently includes Bill Bateman, Matt Dengler, MacIntyre Dixon, Tom Flagg, Matt Leisy, Anne Markt, Michael Nostrand, Dan Sharkey, Juliette Trafton ...

No need to "Try to Remember," PBS is helping out. Long running off-Broadway hit, The Fantasticks, will be featured on an upcoming TV special entitled 50 Years of The Fantasticks. The program will air on New York metropolitan area's PBS on July 30 at 12:30am and CUNY TV on July 31 at 8:30pm, August 1 at 12 ...

Off-Broadway’s long-running musical The Fantasticks will welcome a new Luisa, Bellomy and Henry to the cast when Juliette Trafton, Bill Bateman and MacIntyre Dixon join the production at the Snapple Theater Center’s Jerry Orbach Theater. Trafton, who takes over for Kimberly Whalen, begins her run on June 28, while Bateman, replacing Steve Routman, starts June 21. Dixon, a ...

Tom Jones, lyricist and playwright behind record-breaking off-Broadway hit The Fantasticks, will reprise the role he created half a century ago as part of the show’s 50th anniversary celebration. The 82-year-old Jones, who played the role of Henry during The Fantasticks’ Sullivan Street Playhouse debut in 1960 and again in the subsequent 2006 revival, joins the current off-Broadway company ...

Edward Watts will be the newest cast member in the long-running off-Broadway classic The Fantasticks, taking over the role of El Gallo beginning March 22. He replaces Lewis Cleale, who exits the production on March 14.

Watts joins a company that currently includes Erik Altemus, MacIntyre Dixon, Tom Flagg, Gene Jones, Matt Leisy, Michael Nostrand, Evy Ortiz, Steve Routman, Kimberly ...

The Fantasticks celebrates its 50th anniversary with A Night of 1,000 Luisas. The benefit concert will feature performers who’ve played the role of show ingenue Luisa, from 1960 until the present.

Among the performers set to appear are Alice Cannon (Company), Glory Crampton (Phantom), Karen Culliver (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), Carole Demas (Grease), original Luisa Rita Gardner ...