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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]
It closed in 2017, ending as the longest-running production of any kind in the history of American theater with a total of an astonishing 21,552 performances. "My mind doesn't grasp it, in a way ...
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).
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. His son ...
1960 London This minstrel show (a revue) was in The Guinness Book of Records as the stage show seen by the largest number of people and had international fame (the longest-running work of musical theatre (other than The Fantasticks), until beaten by Cats) A Chorus Line: m Marvin Hamlisch, l Edward Kleban, b James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas ...