Title
Playwright
Tom Jones
Performance Dates
June 27-July 1, 1967
Creative Team
Director - Charles W. Dodrill
Designer-Technical Director - Deena Ferrigno
Music Director - Claire Lortz
Synopsis
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 neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud. The fathers hire traveling actors to stage a mock abduction, so that Matt can heroically seem to save Luisa, ending the supposed feud. When the children discover the deception, they reject the arranged love match and separate. Each then gains disillusioning experiences of the real world, seen in parallel fantasy sequences. They return to each other bruised but enlightened, and they renew their vows with more maturity.
The Fantasticks. (2017, June 8). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:46, June 14, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Fantasticks&oldid=784520670
Disciplines
Acting | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Keywords
College Theater, Otterbein University Theater, Drama, Musical Theatre
Recommended Citation
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department, "The Fantasticks" (1967). 1967 Summer Theatre. 5.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/summer_production_1967/5