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	The Fantasticks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical comedy with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones.
		However, a big-screen version of "The Fantasticks" failed to generate significant interest despite boasting an impressive roster of film talent that included Joel Grey, Joe McIntyre, Jean Louisa Kelly, and director Michael Ritchie.
		Despite its success, "The Fantasticks" has become somewhat controversial due to its use of the word "rape".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Fantasticks (596 words)

	The Fantasticks—The Fifth Decade
		On that day, the Fantasticks, the longest running show of any kind in the United States, and the longest running musical in the world, will present its 16,875th performance.
		The Fantasticks has charmed audiences at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village ever since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
		In addition to an Obie Award and the 1992 Special Tony Award for The Fantasticks, Jones and Schmidt are the recipients of the prestigious ASCAP-Richard Rogers Award for 1993.
	www.thefantasticks.com /webpages/fifth_decade.html (650 words)

	DVD Review: The Fantasticks
		Now comes "The Fantasticks", a musical that has been sitting on the shelf for years (the Internet Movie Database says it was done in 1995!) and got a 6-screen release in 2000 before heading directly to video.
		VIDEO: Although one might think that the film would have gathered dust in the five years that its sat on the shelves waiting for release, "The Fantasticks" actually is one of the better MGM presentations that I've seen lately.
		Positive: Fans of musicals may enjoy "The Fantasticks" as a rental, although there also may be some fans of the play who may react negatively to the idea of the story translated to the screen.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews2/fantasticksdvd.html (1043 words)

	The Fantasticks
		The Fantasticks was recently revived at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC and starred Jaston Williams and Joe Sears (both from "Greater Tuna") as the fathers.
		In the first hot, struggling summer of The Fantasticks' existence John Kennedy was nominated for president.
		The Fantasticks may be taken on several levels.
	members.aol.com /n2thewoods/fantasticks.html (1116 words)

	'Fantasticks' still a bare-bones show filled out with talent \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		While the fathers toil in their vegetable gardens, young Luisa (Jill Lewis) and Matt (Brian Maples) are going out of their gourds with self-absorption and pent-up passion, and when they finally manage a tryst, Luisa swoons amusingly with every sound that comes out of her beloved's mouth.
		The most swoonworthy tune to come out of "The Fantasticks" is "Try to Remember," which the engaging Dodge sings in a soulful baritone in North Coast Rep's staging, directed by Rick Simas.
		It's clearly a more loaded word now than it was when "The Fantasticks" was written (the intended meaning is closer to the old word "ravish"), and it can't help but seem jarring within the song's jaunty context.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040302/news_1c2fan.html (646 words)

	The Fantasticks Reviews
		The Fantasticks tells the story of two fathers who scheme to bring their two children in love with one another, only to find out just how little control they have on their offspring¹s decisions.
		Performed during the early 1960s, The Fantasticks with words by Tom Jones and music by Harvey L. Schmidt, was a departure from earlier musicals that celebrated a romantic view of life and its problems.
		The Fantasticks ends the 59th season of the Barn Theatre, which was led this year by producer Brendan Ragotzy, who took over the duties of his father, Jack, who died earlier this year.
	www.barntheatre.com /review/2004/FantReview.htm (2691 words)

	Metro Pulse/Backstage/Fantasticks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"The Fantasticks," despite being the longest running play on Broadway and spawning a Top 40 hit, "Try to Remember," in the '60s, sounds like an unbearably cutesy work of heart-warming contrivance with a few songs that have nothing to do with the story and a story that has nothing to do with anything at all.
		The Fantasticks, a play within a play, is also the name of the acting troupe led by El Gallo (Edward Pierce), who serves as narrator, bandit and mentor to Louisa and Matt, two neighbors who fall in love despite their fathers' opposition.
		When The Fantasticks was written by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt in 1960, the United States was coming down from the wholesomeness of the post-war '50s and building up to the Beatles, Woodstock and the Vietnam War.
	www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2001/1111/t_backstage.html (807 words)

	PAD stages 'The Fantasticks' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Written by Tom Jones with music by Harvey Schmidt, "The Fantasticks" tells the story of a boy (Matt) and a girl (Luisa) whose parents, in an inspired piece of reverse psychology, invent a feud to bring their children together.
		The ruse is successful, and the young couple falls in love, but as their romance moves beyond stolen moonlit evenings, they become dissatisfied, craving adventure and wider experience of the world.
		Tickets are $10 for the general public and $7 for faculty, staff, students and senior citizens and are available at the Edison Theatre Box Office at (314) 935-6543 and at all MetroTix outlets at (314) 534-1111.
	record.wustl.edu /archive/1997/09-25-97/6655.html (498 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Fantasticks
		Carmen began to perform in musicals with the Orangeburg Part-Time Players, singing in "The Fantasticks," "Grease," "Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat," playing Bergitta in "The Sound of Music." She and Brian Whitman got into some car chases and were best friends for a few years.
		Brothers says "The Fantasticks" was a good choice for a first show because it was interesting and did not overwork the cast and crew.
		Fantasticks creators Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt wrote their best score and N. Richard Nash based its book on his classic play about con-man rainmaker Starbuck and his influence on love-starved heroine Lizzie and her drought-stricken town.
	dramatheatre.surfwax.com /files/Fantasticks_Show.html (4644 words)

	The Fantasticks (1995/2000)
		You see, The Fantasticks is the longest running stage musical in history, having played for four decades in the same off-Broadway theatre.
		You'd also think that the movie would be magical and wonderous, with all the delights that have kept stage audiences coming back for years.
		The Fantasticks was originally shot in 1995, set for a Thanksgiving release, but then MGM got a look at what they had and got cold feet.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/Fantasticks/fantasticks.html (1559 words)

	The Fantasticks - Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews
		The Fantasticks is fifteen minutes shorter than it was five years back, which means nothing to us since we don't compare to the original material (which is still running downtown from us in New York City).
		Two young "lovers" -- The Fantasticks is set somewhere in the American Heartland in the 1920s, when teenlets didn't even kiss until a spitting distance from engagement -- who find each other despite their fathers whose feud has led to a huge patchwork fence being built between their properties.
		But The Fantasticks is one of those flicks that should be seen on the big screen.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive00/thefantasticks.html (958 words)

	The Fantasticks (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Matt (former New Kid on the Block Joe McIntyre) and Luisa (Jean Louisa Kelly) are the 1920s-era prairie's answer to Romeo and Juliet, star-crossed lovers kept apart by their warring fathers.
		Ritchie filmed The Fantasticks five years ago and MGM let it sit on the shelf until Francis Ford Coppola took an interest in it.
		Michael Ritchie's Fantasticks does inspire some wonder — namely for what that first production was like 40 years ago.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=129552&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (552 words)

	DVDlaunch: The Fantasticks review
		Finally, because of a clause in the authors' contract, United Artists found that before "The Fantasticks" could become a straight-to-video release, their small-budget musical would have to be released as a feature film.
		Every musical number filmed for "The Fantasticks" is here in its entirety, including the now-infamous 1960 version of "It Depends on What You Pay." Though seen on fuzzy videotape, the song sings out with 1990's political incorrectness on the subject of literary rape.
		With all the theater groups capable of performing "The Fantasticks," and the Off-Broadway production entering its fifth decade, there are more than enough options for a viewer to explore other than the film.
	www.dvdlaunch.com /fantasticks.html (1424 words)

	Stage Review: 'Fantasticks' a welcome addition to Pittsburgh Musical Theater
		Though just a wisp of a thing, a studied "Our Town"-like exercise in bare-stage make-believe, "Fantasticks" conveys a sobering message, one PMT itself may take to heart: That the adversities of life are what make it special.
		He could be a genial Scrooge, or, in the doublet he dons, a scruffy Growltiger in "Cats." It's shameless, as it should be, and it gains from the contrast to Shaun Rolly's cheery, physical Mortimer, The Man Who Dies.
		Indeed, "Fantasticks" is like the flip side to Weill's collaborator Brecht -- the sweetsour to balance his soursweet.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20030219fastasticks0219p4.asp (667 words)

	I miss The Fantasticks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I wonder about that, there is a wonderful documentary about the closing of the show, not sure of the title but many numbers were filmed, and footage was shot on the final night.
		It was like CATS or A Chorus Line in the sense that many many theater actors and actresses got their start with this show.
		Where else but in The Fantasticks do we belive that confetti is rain, snow, blood, etc, and that a stick is a sword, a wall.....Purely magical.
	www.broadwayworld.com /board/printthread.cfm?thread=45755 (1015 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 'Fantasticks' is simply delightful
		LOGAN — Besides being a musical that has lived one of the longest lives off Broadway, the story of "The Fantasticks" is one that has lived even longer.
		It's a simple tale of young love and meddling parents, of longing for greener pastures, of lost love, with a little prodigal activity and important life lessons learned before the last note dies.
		The Old Lyric Repertory Company's production of "The Fantasticks" is true to the playwright's intended goals of emphasizing the feeling of how we are all somewhat driven by stronger forces; that we are all, to a degree, puppets influenced by so many puppet masters.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600144893,00.html (589 words)

	KDHX Theatre Review - The Fantasticks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Fantasticks, despite its odd name, is a simple story of “love conquers all.” A boy and girl fall in love despite (or because of) the apparent objections of parents.
		The original production of The Fantasticks had two fathers and a cast of eight men and only one woman, and so I applaud Jim Greer’s casting another woman as a mother instead of a father, and a woman as the mute.
		I realize The Fantasticks played the MUNY last year, to crowds of several thousands, however, in this particular theater with its “un-miced” actors, many were not quite able to fill the space with either presence or voice.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/fantasticks0302.html (562 words)

	KoreaTimes : 'Fantasticks' Shows Bigger Is Not Always Better (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shows are getting larger and more elaborate, and these days it seems like each different performing art genre (especially musicals and opera) competes with each other to monopolize outdoor sports arenas, instead of better-equipped performing arts venues.
		The current staging of the musical, ``The Fantasticks,'' proves that bigger is not always better.
		Simply put, ``The Fantasticks'' is a charming and nostalgic show and its timeless story can be enjoyed by all generations.
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/culture/200405/kt2004051017202011680.htm (507 words)

	About The Fantasticks
		The Fantasticks charmed audiences at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village for 42 years before it closed in 2002.
		Four times a week, the story unfolds, radiating a timeless sweet and sunniness: the starry-eyed boy and girl next door fall in love, yearn for the dangerous attractions of the world outside, then opt instead for fulfillment in each other’s arms and in hearth and home.
		The creation of Tom Jones (book and lyrics) and Harvey Schmidt (music), The Fantasticks is the world’s longest running musical and the longest running show in American theater history.
	www.coronadoplayhouse.com /fantasticks/about.html (443 words)

	CBS News \| Last Bow For 'Fantasticks' \| December 29, 2004 10:53:16
		The first came almost as soon as the show opened on May 3, 1960, when producer Lore Noto was advised by his ad agency to shut because the newspaper reviews were tepid.
		Last year, when the 41st anniversary of "The Fantasticks" passed without the usual spike in ticket sales, Noto - who is 78 and in poor health - began to think of closing.
		A version of "The Fantasticks" was first performed as a summer production at Barnard College north of New York City.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/01/13/entertainment/main324163.shtml (1067 words)

	E! Online News - "The Fantasticks" Bids Farewell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Fantasticks, the bare-bones production that first began its illustrious run off-Broadway 42 years ago at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York's Greenwich Village, bids adieu on Sunday after a record 17,162 performances.
		Premiering May 3, 1960--when Dwight D. Eisenhower was still President--The Fantasticks tells the story of a starry-eyed boy who falls in love with the girl next door and what happens when the two are forced to choose between the dangerous temptations of the outside world and the warmth and comfort of home and each other.
		Orbach, who made $45 a week for the show, says in the beginning he thought the production had an outside shot of running for five years--if they were lucky.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/Pf/0,1527,9368,00.html (528 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'The Fantasticks'
		With The Fantasticks, no matter how many productions one might have seen by companies large, small, professional, amateur or otherwise, one pretty much always knows what to expect, which, since there is a kind of comfort in familiar things, is not a bad situation at all.
		In the recently opened production of The Fantasticks, a collaboration by Actors Theatre and Santa Rosa Players--the second full theatrical staging since the two companies joined forces last year--director John Rathjen confidently guides his charismatic cast through all those time-honored stage actions, and simultaneously manages to make the story seem invigorating and fresh.
		The cast, a mix of seasoned performers familiar to fans of local theater and a couple of new faces, deserve much of the credit as well, perfectly capturing the innocent, sentimental tone of The Fantasticks, a show in which tone is everything.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/11.10.04/fantasticks-0446.html (586 words)

	LeisureSuit.net Media, LLC: Fantastick Run Comes To An End
		The Fantasticks cost $13,500 to mount in 1960 (the amount modern-day spectaculars use on lipstick) and investors were able to purchase one-sixth of a percent of the show for a mere $55.
		I must admit, the first time I saw the show, on a class trip in the eighth grade, in The Fantastick's 28th year, I was amiss as to exactly why it had lasted so very long.
		The Fantasticks was consistently helped by the fact that The Sullivan Street Playhouse's longtime landlord had signed a run-of-the-play rent contract with Lore Noto.
	www.leisuresuit.net /content/fantasticks_close.shtml (1319 words)

	'The Fantasticks' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Opening in New York City on May 3, 1960, and closing Jan. 13, 2002, after 17,162 performances, "The Fantasticks," written by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, has been a favorite of audiences for more than four decades.
		The ASU Theatre Production of "The Fantasticks" is under the direction of Molly Simpson, professor of theatre, along with vocal director, Matt Carey, assistant professor of music, and production accompanist, Kerri Turner, instructor of music.
		"The Fantasticks" will be performed at Fowler Center for two weekends opening on Friday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 and running through Sunday, Oct. 6, at 2 p.m.
	asunews.astate.edu /fantasticks.htm (393 words)

	The University of Virginia's College at Wise
		Public performances of The Fantasticks are scheduled for Sept. 6-8.
		The Fantasticks will be directed by Michael McNulty, assistant professor of theatre at UVa-Wise.
		A funny yet touching story of innocence and knowledge, The Fantasticks was adapted from Edmond Rostand's 1894 play Les Romanesques by then college students Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones.
	www.wise.virginia.edu /college_relations/archive/2002/2002-07-29_fantasticks_auditions.html (197 words)

	VOA Special English - THIS IS AMERICA - "The Fantasticks"
		On January thirteenth, however, "The Fantasticks" is finally expected to close.
		One reason for the continuing popularity of "The Fantasticks" may be that it is different from large musicals playing in Broadway theaters.
		But in the second part of "The Fantasticks," Matt and Luisa discover that their fathers have tricked them.
	www.manythings.org /voa/02/020107ta_t.htm (668 words)

	"The Fantasticks" - Sunnyvale Community Center Theater
		This charming, witty and poetical musical The Fantasticks was the longest-running musical in the world.
		It is a fable about disillusioned young lovers who go their separate ways to "see the world." When they meet again, older and wiser, they discover a mature, more meaningful love.
		This charming, witty and poetical musical The Fantasticks opened in New York City when Dwight Eisenhower was president and was performed for almost 42 years, making it the longest-running musical in the world.
	www.goldstarevents.com /cajaycees/groupevents/event.pl?id=4510 (188 words)

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