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Nick Spangler plays Matt, the play’s lovestruck young hero.

e Fantasticks, written by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, opened in 1960—this year’s anniversary celebrates its debut at Barnard College—and closed in 2002 after 17,162 performances at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village. It reopened in 2006 at the Snapple eater Center. e space was built to mirror the cozy 150-seat Sullivan Street Playhouse, and in 2007 the theater home to this revival was renamed e Jerry Orbach eater.

Other big-time names have appeared in e Fantasticks, including F. Murray Abraham, Glenn Close, Liza Minnelli, Kristin Chenoweth and Elliot Gould. And the role of Matt has lately belonged to a couple of reality TV stars: American Idol finalist Anthony Fedorov and Amazing Race winner Nick Spangler.

Currently starring is Gene Jones, who appeared with Javier Bardem in the unforgettable gas station scene in No Country for Old Men.

If you can get tickets for the 7 p.m. show May 4, you’ll be invited to a star-studded post-performance cocktail party afterward celebrating the anniversary at the Elaine Cancilla-Orbach Studio in the Snapple eater Center.

If not then, try to get to see the show. Everyone needs to go at least once to hear one of the most famous songs to come out of Broadway—even 50 years later: “Try to Remember.”

e Fantasticks, Snapple eater Center, 210 W. 50th St. (at Broadway). Tickets: 212-921-7862 or visit Ticketmaster.com.

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