The Fantasticks

HAYES THEATER · OPENS NOVEMBER 16, 2026

THE STORY

The original Off-Broadway Fantasticks opened May 3, 1960 at the tiny Sullivan Street Playhouse and ran 42 years — 17,162 performances — making it the longest-running musical in history. Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s miniature fable, home to “Try to Remember,” played everywhere on earth for six decades but, remarkably, never on Broadway. Until now.

WHAT’S ON

Second Stage Theater’s Broadway premiere, reimagined by director-choreographer Christopher Gattelli: in this telling, it is two mothers who scheme to make their sons fall in love. Zane Phillips narrates as El Gallo, with Ruthie Ann Miles and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer as the mothers. Opening night is Monday, November 16, in a limited engagement through February 7, 2027, at Broadway’s smallest theatre.

THE DETAILS

Hayes Theater, 240 W 44th Street, New York · Opens Nov 16, 2026 · Through Feb 7, 2027

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