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The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones.It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the 1894 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.
Harvey Lester Schmidt (September 12, 1929 – February 28, 2018 [1]) was an American composer for musical theatre and illustrator.He was best known for composing the music for the longest running musical in history, The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway for 42 years, from 1960 to 2002.
The off-Broadway hit ‘The Fantasticks,’ the world’s longest-running musical is introduced to a new generation in Venice Theatre SummerStock program
His best-known work is The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway from 1960 until 2002, and the hit song from the same, "Try to Remember". Other songs from The Fantasticks include "Soon It's Gonna Rain", "Much More", and "I Can See It". He also wrote the screenplay for the 1995 feature-film adaptation. [2]
The Fantasticks is a 2000 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie (his final film to be released before his death the following year). The screenplay by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt is based on their record-breaking off-Broadway production of the same name, which ran for 17,162 performances (and was subsequently revived off-Broadway).
“Try to Remember,” the most famous song to have come out of the stage musical “The Fantasticks,” was noted for its autumnal feel, sung by someone reflecting back on youthful days.
Baker got his New York City directing debut at The Sullivan Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village in 1960. The original production of The Fantasticks, in the small 150-seat theatre, spawned a run that lasted more than forty years and for 17,162 performances. [3] In 1961, Baker directed the musical's West End production, which opened to mixed ...
Tom Jones -- the lyricist, director and writer of the longest-running musical of all time, The Fantasticks -- has died. He was 95. Jones died Friday at his home in Sharon, Connecticut.