The Fantasticks

Before the mud of Woodstock, before Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon, before Elizabeth Taylor received an Academy Award, and before Wilt Chamberlain completed the first of his seven consecutive years as basketball’s top scorer, “Try To Remember” and “Soon It’s Gonna Rain” from The Fantasticks, had become part of our national culture. Each generation from bobby-soxers to flower children, and babyboomers to cyberkids has embraced the universality of the show.