Remember The Fantasticks?

[elleng]

50 years old today!

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/theater/Fantasticks.pdf

(Jerry Orbach starred, as the Narrator!)

[Quantess]

1. I saw a local production of it, about 18 or 20 years ago.

[TommyO]

2. It's still a money-maker for the original investors

The American economy was in recession, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was yo-yo-ing in the 600s when Marjorie and Malcolm Gray found a new investment to offset a battering in the stock market. It was the spring of 1960, and after dropping by a neighbor’s home on Long Island to hear a couple of hopeful musicians play songs from their new Off Broadway musical, “The Fantasticks,” the Grays bought a stake in the show for $330.

The other day, 50 years later, Ms. Gray. now a widow, received her latest dividend from the musical, a $200 check in return for that stake. She has earned about $80,000 so far on the original $330 investment, or an average of $1,600 a year since 1960. And she will continue to receive money until 2020 because of the investment terms for the original production, which ran a record-setting 42 years at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village.



http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/theater/03fantastick.html?ref=arts

[Auggie]

4. I dragged Mrs. Auggie to see it on Sullivan Street

when we were in N.Y. many years ago. I'm thrilled to have been able to see it there.

[elleng]

6. Ditto, but no dragging here!

was in h.s. at the time!

[MissMillie]

3. I'm trying to remember....

:hide:

[elleng]

5. You remember, September, right?

:fistbump:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jV-fnarDho