The Fantasticks
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Opened May 5, 2009
Closed May 17, 2009
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Eric McCormack, Emmy Award winner for Will & Grace, plays El Gallo, Lucas Grabeel from High School Musical plays Matt, and Broadway star and Tony nominee Harry Groener plays Bellomy in this limited-run production of The Fantasticks.
The Fantasticks tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play "The Romancers" ("Les Romanesques") by Edmond Rostand, concerning two fathers who put up a wall between their houses to ensure that their children fall in love, because they know that children always do what their parents forbid. Elements of the play are ultimately drawn from the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, its story winding its way through Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as well as Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore" and Rostand's play.
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The Fantasticks, now being given an enchanting production by the Reprise Theater Company, is still as spry and whimsical as it was 50 years ago, thanks to the timelessly simple score and book by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. Still, some nifty magic tricks, an elegant set, Jason Alexander's sure-handed direction, and a team of masterful actors -- led by Eric McCormack, Lucas Grabeel, and Harry Groener -- all deserve credit in helping the show come to vibrant life.
The musical spends one act with young couple Matt (Grabeel) and Louisa (Alison Woods) deliriously in love. Next-door neighbors, they climb the trees to read each other poetry and kiss in private. Unbeknownst to them, however, his [...]