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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.
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" is a song about nostalgia [1] from the musical comedy play The Fantasticks (1960). It is the first song performed in the show, encouraging the audience to imagine what the sparse set suggests. The words were written by the American lyricist Tom Jones while Harvey Schmidt composed the music.
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]
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 ...
Tom Jones, who wrote the book and lyrics for the longest-running musical “The Fantasticks,” died Friday at his home in Sharon, Conn. He was 95. Jones’ son Michael told The New York Times the ...
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.
This week, the off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks will reach its 50th anniversary. The show, a valentine to young love requiring no more props than a stick, a sheet, and some confetti, is the ...