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The Fantasticks

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA, 98260 United States (map)

Book and lyrics by Tom Jones
Music by Harvey Schmidt
Directed by Elizabeth Herbert
Musical Direction by David Locke
Vocal Coach:  Nancy Nolan

“Try To Remember” a time when this romantic charmer wasn’t enchanting audiences around the world. This slight, simple confection of music and whimsy is in fact the longest-running play of any kind in American history.

This allegorical tale of life and love is infused with a bit of Shakespeare (a boy and a girl, a wall and disapproving parents). Based on “Les Romanesques” by the author of
“Cyrano de Bergerac,” at its heart is breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication. The Fantasticks has a purity and simplicity that transcends cultural barriers and the result is a timeless fable of love that manages to be nostalgic and universal at the same time.”

This funny and romantic musical about a boy, a girl, and their two fathers who try to keep them apart asks the audience to use their imagination and follow them into a world of moonlight and magic. The boy and the girl fall in love, grow apart and finally find their way back to each other after realizing the truth in El Gallo’s words that, “without a hurt, the heart is hollow.” 

October 6 - 21, 2017
Friday and Saturday @ 7:30 / Sunday @ 2:00
Piano Bar opens one hour before each performance

Adult $24 / Senior $20 / Youth $17 / Military $20 / Matinee $17
Series Discount! 5 shows for the price of 4 if purchased before August 31, 2017

PURCHASING TICKETS

Click Here for Online Purchases
Via Phone: Please Call the Box Office at
800.638.7631 or 360.221.8268
In Person: Visit the Box Office at
565 Camano Ave, Langley, WA 98260

**Online Ticket Purchases are available until one hour prior to the performance**

BOX OFFICE HOURS:
Wednesday through Saturday
1pm - 6pm
and 2 hours before every show

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Or questions regarding your ticket order please call or visit the WICA Box Office.

Earlier Event: October 8
The Fantasticks
Later Event: October 14
The Fantasticks

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.