Theatre UCF's THE FANTASTICKS to Open on 6/27
By: Tyler Peterson Jun. 21, 2013
Theatre UCF opens the classic musical The Fantasticks on Thursday, June 27 at the Main Stage theater on the UCF campus.
The Fantasticks is the longest running production of any kind in the history of American theatre. It is an intimate show with an ensemble cast. Director Be Boyd is staging the production as if a troupe of traveling actors, "The Vagabond Players," is presenting the play to the UCF audience.The musical tells the tale of two young neighbors, Matt and Luisa, and their meddlesome parents, Hucklebee and Bellomy. The parents devise a complicated plan for their children to fall in love, which involves a professional kidnapper and a troupe of actors, but the plans go awry, leaving the young lovers to clean up the mess."I thought it would be an interesting idea to have traveling actors 'perform' the story of 'The Fantasticks,'" says Boyd. "The characters in The Fantasticks are larger than life archetypes of some of the characters we experience in life-the young lovers; the over protective, yet well-meaning parents; the heroes; the villains; the class clowns and the classic storyteller-heard in so many of the wonderful fairy tales we all grew up with. And creating a company of actors who play the 'characters' in the play gives actors the opportunity to have fun with some of the heightened comedy in the script, clearly borrowed from Commedia dell' arte, as well as the melodramatic moments borrowed from traditional love stories. Before the show begins, the audience will have an opportunity to meet "The Vagabond Players" and learn a bit about the company."Photo by Erin Lartonoix
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