Eric McCormack, Emmy Award winner for Will & Grace, Lucas Grabeel from High School Musical, and Broadway star and Tony nominee Harry Groener will be featured in Reprise's upcoming production of The Fantasticks at the Freud Playhouse May 5-May 17. This is a limited engagement with only 16 performances!
With music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones, The Fantasticks is the world’s longest-running musical. Directing the show is artistic director of the Reprise Theatre Company Jason Alexander.
Single tickets are now available for The Fantasticks online at www.reprise.org or through the UCLA Central Ticket Office at 310/825-2101.
Eric McCormack (El Gallo) is most known for playing Will Truman on Will & Grace and won an Emmy Award for the role. He played Professor Harold Hill on Broadway in the Susan Stroman revival of The Music Man, and later played the part as part of the Hollywood Bowl Summer Concert series. McCormack currently stars in the series Trust Me.
Lucas Grabeel (Matt) has played Ryan Evans in the Disney High School Musical films. Lucas also played “Danny Nicoletta” in the Academy Award-winning film Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant.
Harry Groener’s (Bellomy) Broadway credits include Is There Life After High School?, Will Parker in Oklahoma! (Tony Award nomination, Theatre World Award), Munkustrap in Cats (Tony nomination), Georges/George in Sunday in the Park With George, and Bobby Child in Crazy for You (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations). Groener’s television appearances include Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and he was a regular on the series Dear John.
Jason Alexander is proud to be serving as Artistic Director for Reprise and is delighted to be working with its wonderful staff and Board of Directors. Jason is probably best known for his 9 year, award–winning stint as George Costanza on the hit TV series, Seinfeld. However, those who know him only as George will be surprised to learn of his extensive background as an actor, director, producer, and writer. His television credits also include: Bob Patterson (prod./co-creator); Listen Up (prod.); the TV films of Bye Bye Birdie, The Man Who Saved Christmas, Cinderella, and A Christmas Carol; guest appearances on Newhart, Friends, Monk, Star Trek-Voyager, Malcolm in the Middle, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and multiple episodes of the animated series Duckman, Aladdin, Dilbert, and Dinosaurs. His film credits include Pretty Woman; White Palace; North; Dunston Checks In; Love, Valor, Compassion; Rocky and Bullwinkle, Ira and Abby and the upcoming, Hachiko. Jason has starred on Broadway in the original companies of Merrily We Roll Along; The Rink; Broadway Bound; Accomplice; and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, for which he won the Tony, Outer Critics, and Drama Desk Awards as Best Actor in a Musical. He also authored the libretto of the show, which received the Tony Award for Best Musical. On the L.A. stage, Jason has starred in Give ‘Em Hell, Harry; Defiled; the long-running hit of The Producers with Martin Short and the very first Reprise production, Promises, Promises. Jason has directed in every medium: Television (Seinfeld, Remember WENN, Campus Ladies, Everybody Hates Chris); Film (For Better or Worse, Just Looking) and Stage (The God of Hell at the Geffen; Sunday In The Park With George and the newly adapted Damn Yankees at Reprise and countless benefits). About “The Fantasticks”
The Fantasticks tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond Rostand, concerning two fathers who put up a wall between their houses to ensure that their children fall in love, because they know that children always do what their parents forbid. Elements of the play are ultimately drawn from the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, its story winding its way through Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore and Rostand's play.
Since its inception in 1997, Reprise Theatre Company has been a focus of the Los Angeles musical theatre community, producing productions of great American musicals, and a wide variety off concerts, staged-readings, special events and outreach programs. In May 2007, Jason Alexander became Artistic Director and he was joined by Susan Dietz, Producing Director.
Theatre: The Freud Playhouse at UCLA (conveniently located in Macgowan Hall)
Dates: May 5 to May 17, 2009. Opening night is May 6
Tuesdays through Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 2:00pm & 8:00pm,
Sundays at 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Tickets: UCLA Central Ticket Office: (310) 825-2101
May 5 (preview) $60.00; Opening night - $75.00;
Tuesday through Thursday Evenings - $70.00;
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, (all performances) - $75.00.
Student/Senior rush $20, 15 minutes before showtime (subject to availability).
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