The Fantasticks at The Cape Playhouse

Music by Harvey SchmidtBook and Lyrics by Tom JonesShow SummaryTry to remember the kind of September when love was an ember about to billowThe Fantasticks is a funny and romantic musical about a boy, a girl, and their fathers who try to keep them apart. The narrator, El Gallo, asks the audience to use their imagination and follow him into a world of moonlight and magic. The boy and the girl fall in love, grow apart and finally find their way back to each other after realizing the truth in El Gallos words that, without a hurt, the heart is hollow. The story is based on a play called Les Romanesques, by Edmond Rostand Author of Cyrano de Bergerac. The Fantasticks original off-Broadway run lasted 42 years and ran for a total of 17,162 performances.The Fantasticks is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

Authors

• Edmond Rostand
• Harvey Schmidt
• Tom Jones