'Fartiste' to Off Broadway

Former Fringe Festival musical "The Fartiste" lands Off Broadway the next month in the commerical run.Show had its preem within the 2006 NY Intl. Fringe Festival, where it won one of the fest's top tuner kudos. Latest version will dsicover the expansion open at Sophia's Downstairs, the venue where "Miss Abigail's Self-help guide to Etiquette" opened up up a year ago which is still running, with "Fartiste" playing in repetition with "Abigail."Nick Wyman ("Catch Me If You are Able ToInch), Lindsay Roginski, Herndon Lackey, Analisa Leaming and Rachel Kopf star inside the show in regards to the real-existence Moulin Rouge artist whose on-command wind made him popular. Charlie Schulman pens it, and Michael Roberts provides the score. Tuner follows inside the actions of one other Fringe alum getting a wild title, "Silence! The Musical," which opened up up Off Broadway inside the summer season which is playing a long term. "Fartiste" uses the flexibility of Off Broadway organizing to use less perfs (five as opposed to the typical eight) also to concentrate them in audience-friendly weekend slots. The Shulberts, the creating entity introduced with the tuner's two creatives, will produce with Robert Dragotta and co-producers Stephen Hanks and Diane Proctor. "Fartiste" begins previews March. 9 before an March. 27 opening. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com