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Story: Based on an obscure Edmund Rostand play called "Les Romanesques"(a spoof of Romeo and Juliet,) two fathers invent a feud in order to bring their children together. The story is played out in a presentational style where the actors freely move in and out of character, often addressing the audience directly. They remain on stage throughout the entire show, sometimes turning pages for the piano player, sometimes observing the other actors , and sometimes seated at the rear of the stage with their backs to the audience, never further away than an arms reach from the front row. We watch the fathers hatch their plot, concoct their feud, manipulate their son and daughter into a romance by forbidding them to make contact, arrange for an abduction and a heroic and hilariously comical 'rescue,' and finally celebrate a joyous and romantic reconciliation...all in Act I. Act II takes the audience through the children's (and Fathers') inevitable disillusionment with romance...the hard lessons learned when life and reality come crashing in...and, of course, the deeper love and reconciliation that comes out of learning and maturity. Performance dates:
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The Fantasticks is the longest running musical in theatre history, running 42 years and over 16,000 performances at the Sullivan Street Theatre in Greenwich Village, NY. This simple, yet profoundly moving love story has something for everyone from the most cynical to the most hoplessly romantic theatregoer. A story and a storytelling style which commands respect, attention, and admiration; and delivers a heaping helping of pure joy to anyone who has the imagination and humanity to enter it's world.|
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