DeadlineJun 3

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ‘Gloria’ & Updated ‘Fantasticks’ Announced For Second Stage’s 2026-2027 Broadway Season
#News #BrandenJacobsJenkins #Broadway #SecondStageTheater #TheFantasticks

https://deadline.com/2026/06/second-stage-broadway-gloria-fantasticks-1236939782/

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ‘Gloria’ & Updated ‘Fantasticks’ Announced For Second Stage’s 2026-2027 Broadway Season

Second Stage Theater announced a Broadway line-up to include a modern re-telling of The Fantasticks and a new play from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

Deadline
50+ MusicFeb 20
"Try to Remember" is a song about nostalgia from the #musicalComedy play #TheFantasticks (1960). It is the first song performed in the show, encouraging the audience to imagine what the sparse set suggests. The words were written by the American lyricist #TomJones while #HarveySchmidt composed the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoRdgE9AiMk
Ed Ames Performs "Try to Remember" | Carson Tonight Show

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50+ MusicJan 14
"Try to Remember" is a song about nostalgia from the #musicalComedy play #TheFantasticks (1960). It is the first song performed in the show, encouraging the audience to imagine what the sparse set suggests. The words were written by the American lyricist #TomJones while #HarveySchmidt composed the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXuhNeBhjM
Try To Remember

YouTube
DeadlineJan 7

‘The Fantasticks’ To Be Reimagined For Broadway As Contemporary Gay Love Story
#News #Broadway #ChristopherGattelli #TheFantasticks

https://deadline.com/2026/01/fantasticks-broadway-gay-love-story-1236665285/

Charles HarperSep 30, 2024

September song. This month has been spectacular in terms of the weather here on Skye. Sunshine and showers. A change of palette. Never a dreich day but plenty of mists and new revealing views.

“Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh, so mellow
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain was yellow…”

#thefantasticks #september #weather #isleofskye

Andrew ShieldsDec 2, 2023

What luxury, putting on plays

Cowpunk
Diane Seuss

#Poetry #DianeSeuss #Cowpunk #TheCrucible #TheFantasticks

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/161500/cowpunk

Cowpunk

In the heat of it, what I believed was the heat of it, I shouted like a dockworker that I was unafraid. My burbling brook which must be traversed to get to the island of blue lawn chairs. My loaded apple trees, raspberry bushes, and prefab on a slab, and memories of Petra, with three teeth, who…

The Poetry Foundation
Poetry NewsAug 14, 2023

Legendary creator
Of everlasting musical
Tom Jones departs

#tomjones #thefantasticks #musical #legend #haiku #poetry

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/tom-jones-creator-longest-running-musical-fantasticks-dies-102228120

Tom Jones, creator of the longest-running musical ‘The Fantasticks,' dies at 95

Tom Jones, the lyricist, director and writer of “The Fantasticks,” the longest-running musical in history, has died

ABC News
Rest In ParadiseAug 12, 2023
Lyricist and librettist Tom Jones, Half of Record-Setting ‘Fantasticks’ Team, Dies at 95 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/12/theater/tom-jones-dead.html #arts #theater #Broadway #TheFantasticks #obits #obituaries #restinparadise #rip #deaths #whodied
Tom Jones, Half of Record-Setting ‘Fantasticks’ Team, Dies at 95

He wrote the book and lyrics to a little show that opened in 1960 in Greenwich Village and became “the longest-running musical in the universe.”

The New York Times
HOTCHKAMay 26, 2023
Actor/Singer #EdAmes, best known for his role as Mingo on 1960s TV series #DanielBoone, has died at 95. Ames appeared #OffBroadway (#TheCrucible, #TheFantasticks) and on #Broadway (#Carnival!, #OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest). His TV credits include "McCloud", "Murder, She Wrote", "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and "Jake and the Fatman". Ames is also known for one of the most famous TV bloopers of all time, demonstrating his tomahawk-throwing skills on #TheTonightShow. #RIP
https://youtu.be/0L5QC9ZJkM8