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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1339 words (5.36 pages) in the essay titled The Fantastics If there is truly tradition to be found among the great theatres both on and off Broadway, then certainly the Sullivan Street Playhouse and its long running production of The Fantasticks rates as one of the most celebrated of New York theatrical traditions. Maintaining its place as the longest running production Off Broadway, The Fantasticks remains an enchanting and insightful tale of both young love and bitter disillusionment. It also reminds one, in this age of spectacle and the mega-musical, how powerful and truly inspiring theatre itself can be. Clearly, one of the great strengths of this production and a large part of its appeal for audiences over the last four decades lies in the fact that both the story and the style of presentation compliment each other so completely. Here we find the non-essentials are stripped away, and we are left to rely simply on the imagination of both the audience and the performers to create a magical evening.The story of The Fantasticks, written by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt and also based upon Edmond Rostand’s play Les Romanesques, concerns itself with the pairing of two young lovers, appropriately enough, the Boy and the Girl. As their story begins to unfold, as told to us by the Narrator (El Gallo), we quickly come to recognize both the Boy and Girl as specific characters with specific concerns, but at the same time we see them as every boy and girl that have ever fallen in love. We see the Boy’s unwavering devotion and the Gi... |
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Keywords: sullivan street playhouse, off broadway, two young lovers, fantasticks, last four decades, unwavering devotion, insightful, romantic idealism, stripped away, theatrical traditions, harvey schmidt, magical evening, fantastics, story begins, disillusionment, predictability, edmond, narrator, sole purpose, contrived