Cranford Dramatic Club, New Jersey's Oldest Community Theatre presents the Fantastics:
“The Fantasticks ” remains the longest running show of any kind in American theater history, and the longest running musical in the world. The off Broadway show about youthful love, celebrated its 41st year on May 3, 2001, with its 16,875th performance. It's universal story of young love has outlasted nine presidents and predates Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon. Every generation from bobby-soxers to flower children to babyboomers, to cyberkids have embraced this timeless, nostalgic show ...
Includes production information, photographs, and lyrics.
The Fantasticks Official Website of the original production. The World's Longest Running Musical. Music by Harvey Schmidt, book and lyrics by Tom Jones. Presented by Lore Noto at The Sullivan Street Playhouse, New York City. Find the latest news, photos, cast lists, music clips, video clips, interviews, casting info, and more of this beloved show.
The official The Fantasticks Fifth Decade! website, commemorating the musical by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt which opened off-Broadway on May 3, 1960 and is still delighting audiences. Contains history, photos, and memorabilia, as well as ticket information.
Plot synopsis and character descriptions for Fantasticks, including voice part, dancing difficulty and summaries for each character. Perfect for auditions and callbacks, or for producers.
Two fathers decide that they want their children to fall in love. The girl, Luisa, is a daydreamer with an active imagination. The boy, Matt, is a romantic. The two fathers decide to instigate a mock feud amongst themselves in order to help the boy and girl fall in love. They figure that this feud will give them the excuse to say no to the relationship, which of course will simply encourage the children's love even more. The fathers go as far as to hire El Gallo to stage a mock abduction of Luisa, in which Matt can become a hero and save her. After this act, Luisa and Matt fall deeply in love. Soon though, the children realize their parents staged the feud and their love fades away. After both experience a little life experience on their own and are hurt by it, they reunite once again with much less drama.
Cranford Dramatic Club, New Jersey's Oldest Community Theatre presents the Fantastics:
“The Fantasticks ” remains the longest running show of any kind in American theater history, and the longest running musical in the world. The off Broadway show about youthful love, celebrated its 41st year on May 3, 2001, with its 16,875th performance. It's universal story of young love has outlasted nine presidents and predates Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon. Every generation from bobby-soxers to flower children to babyboomers, to cyberkids have embraced this timeless, nostalgic show ...
Includes production information, photographs, and lyrics.
Brief history of The Fantasticks, a musical by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, plus links to all cast albums and sheet music currently in print.
The Fantasticks, freely adapted from Edmond Rostand's 1894 play Les Romanesques, tells an age-old tale. Its ingredients are simple: a boy, a girl, two fathers, and a wall. Its stage is a wooden platform, its scenery a tattered cardboard moon. Using only these bare essentials, the author and composer have managed to bring to life a funny and quite touching story of innocence--and of knowledge ...