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KHELAIYA - A Gujarati Musical Comedy Play
Khelaiya tells an age-old tale. Its ingredients are simple: a boy, a girl, two fathers, and a wall. Its scenery, a tattered cardboard moon, hovers over an empty wooden platform. With these bare essentials, writer Chanrakant Shah (Boston), Music director Rajat Dholakia and Director Umesh Shukla has re-created a theatrical phenomenon unmatched in the Gujarati Theatre world. Kheliaya brings to life a funny and quite touching story of innocence--and of knowledge. Kheliaya is loosely based on the Longest running American Musical The Fantasticks. The Fantasticks, freely adapted from Edmond Rostand's 1894 play Les Romanesques, received its official premiere at the Sullivan Street Playhouse on May 3, 1960. Since that time, it has become the longest-running musical in the world. The Fantasticks has played in every state, in more than 11,103 U.S. productions in over 2,000 cities and towns. It has played at the White House, the Ford Theatre, the Shawnee Mission in Kansas, Yellowstone National Park and in America's more exotic locales from Carefree, Arizona to Mouth of Wilson, Virginia. Internationally, more than 700 productions have been staged in 67 nations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Date: 03/21/2003
Location: Museum of Our National Heritage
Time: 8:30 PM
Organized By: Gurjar - Gujarati Association of New England
Cost: Please Call for Tickets
Contact: Manoj Shah 603.889.3783 Chetan Shah 978.725.5550
Web: http://www.narmad.com/playsmain.html
Email: khelaiya@attbi.com
Directions: Rte. 2A East - Lexington MA
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