Fantasticks

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The Fantasticks tells an figurative story, loosely based on the play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond Rostand, about two neighboring fathers who put up a wall between their houses to ensure that their children fall in love, because they know children always do what their parents forbid!

Of course the children do fall in love, and they discover the plot. Each go off and experience the world. When they finally return to each other and the love they had, they have learned from the world to recognise their true feelings.

Elements of the musical are drawn from the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, its story winding its way 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.

Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s classic score features titles including Much More, I Can See It and the instantly familiar Try To Remember.

The Fantasticks opens in May 2010 – currently booking through to September 2010 at the Duchess Theatre in London.