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The Fantasticks The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play "The Romancers" ("Les Romanesques") by Edmond Rostand, concerning two fathers who put up a wall between their houses to ensure that their children fall in love, because they know that children always do what their parents forbid. After the children do fall in love, they discover their fathers' plot and they each go off and experience things in the world. They return to each other and the love they had, having learned from the world and made an informed decision. Elements of the play are ultimately drawn from the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, winding through Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore and Rostand's play. Author: Music: Harvey Schmidt / Lyrics: Tom Jones Producer: Maggie Bowman Director: Maggie Bowman Cast: M:4 F:1 Tech:0 Age Rest:16-60 NAME AGE DESCRIPTION SEX/TECH CAST/MEMBER UNDERSTUDY El Gallo 40-50 Narrator M Jim Schweller Luisa 18-20 A teenage girl F Alyssa Adams Malinda Myers Matt 18-20 A teenage boy M Joey Stine Bellomy 40-50 Luisa's father M Ron Hucklebee 40-50 Matt's father M Mike Mellen Henry 40-50 An old actor M Knoxy Mortimer 40-50 Henry's sidekick M James Spiva The Mute N/A A .... well, a mute M Fran Stage Manager T Noneen Ziemba

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