The Fantasticks and Women in Need Partner for Christmas Charity

The Off Broadway production of The Fantasticks and the advocacy organization Women In Need have partnered to create a very special Christmas for New York City's homeless and disadvantaged women and children.

From now through Christmas day, audience members who bring a donation of one of Women In Need's most requested items (see list below) to The Snapple Theater Center will have the opportunity to purchase a ticket to The Fantasticks for just $20, a savings of $55. For each item donated, The Fantasticks will donate 2 tickets to a special Christmastime performance of The Fantasticks for New York's homeless and disadvantaged women and children featuring a Christmas party with the cast of The Fantasticks - up to 200 tickets.

The announcement was made today by Terzetto LLC, Pat Flicker Addiss and MARS Theatricals (Amy Danis and Mark Johannes), producers of The Fantasticks.

Women In Need provides comprehensive services to homeless and disadvantaged women and children in the city of New York, including transitional shelters, licensed alcohol and substance abuse treatment, HIV prevention education, job readiness assistance and domestic violence counseling.

Audience members wishing to support the cause should bring one of the following urgently needed items to The Snapple Theater Center from now through December 23 during normal business hours in exchange for a $20 show ticket: a package of diapers (all sizes); a children's outfit (new and unused only); or a twin-sized set of sheets or blankets (new and unused only).

About Women In Need

Women In Need's mission is to provide housing, help and hope to New York City women and their families who are homeless and disadvantaged. Since opening its first shelter for 10 women in 1983, it has grown into a citywide agency that provides unique, comprehensive services which include transitional family shelters and permanent supportive housing; licensed alcohol and substance abuse treatment centers; job readiness preparation and job placement assistance; HIV prevention education; domestic violence prevention and counseling; family support; and alumnae programs to support the continued success of formerly homeless families. WIN also provides therapeutic child care, a summer camp, and after-school programs to meet the developmental needs of children exposed to the trauma and instability of homelessness, poverty, substance abuse, and violence.

About The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks (music by Harvey Schmidt, book/lyrics/direction by Tom Jones) is a captivating and simple romantic comedy about a boy and girl who fall in and out of love at the hands of their meddling fathers. The audience uses its imagination to follow the narrator, El Gallo, as he creates a world of moonlight and magic until the boy and girl find their way back to one other. The score, which includes the hit songs "Try To Remember," "They Were You" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain," is as timeless as the story itself. Having played a record-breaking 17,162 performances in its original run at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village, The Fantasticks is now playing in the heart of Times Square at The Snapple Theater Center's Jerry Orbach Theater.

The Fantasticks company includes Edward Watts (Broadway's Finian's Rainbow), Erik Altemus, Bill Bateman (Broadway's Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, Hello, Dolly!), MacIntyre Dixon (Broadway's Beauty and the Beast, A Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Forum, Gypsy starring Bernadette Peters, Sly Fox, 1776, Prelude to a Kiss), Tom Flagg (Broadway's Will Rogers Follies, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Oklahoma), Gene Jones (Broadway's Big River, Joe Turner's Come and Gone; No Country for Old Men), Matt Leisy (The History Boys at St. Louis Rep), Anne Markt, Michael Nostrand (A&E's Emmy Award-winning Peter Pan, national tours of Jelly's Last Jam, The Mystery of Edwin Drood), Juliette Trafton (Christine in Phantom of the Opera national tour) and Charles West (Broadway's The Scarlet Pimpernel, Show Boat, Cyrano the Musical).

The Fantasticks plays at The Snapple Theater Center's Jerry Orbach Theater, 210 West 50th Street at Broadway. The performance schedule is as follows: Mondays at 8PM, Tuesdays at 8PM, Wednesdays at 2PM, Fridays at 8PM, Saturdays at 2PM & 8PM and Sundays at 3PM & 7:30PM.

Tickets for The Fantasticks are available by calling the box office at (212) 921-7862 or Ticketmaster.com at (212) 307-4100.

www.Women-In-Need.org

www.FantasticksOnStage.com

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