FREE THE FANTASTICKS 30TH EDITION PDF Harvey Schmidt | 9781557831415 | | | | | ‘The Fantasticks’ co-creator Harvey Schmidt dies at 88 | Page Six With its intimate feel, a simple, relatable plot, a gorgeous, lush score demanding only keyboard or piano, harp and percussion The Fantasticks 30th editionan eight-member cast and very modest technical requirements, this musical is a favorite with regional and educational The Fantasticks 30th edition, alike. The story is simplicity itself. Matt and Louisa, are in love, but their feuding fathers, Hucklebee and Bellomy, have built a wall between their properties to keep the children apart. Using reverse psychology, the fathers trick their progeny into secretly meeting, falling in love and pledging to marry. But to insure that it really happens, the. The lovers split up and this time the parents really quarrel and separate. The set is essentially the same, but Adam Veness has expanded The Fantasticks 30th edition basic platform flanked by supporting poles and simple curtain. Andrew H. Under conductor Roger L. Meredith Kochan is perfection as Louisa. This exceptional, stunning young actress has the clear soprano The Fantasticks 30th edition of an angel and moves gracefully and confidently through this love story, bringing the audience along on her journey toward understanding and maturity. This young man has a long future ahead of him. MacGregor plays Matt as a cocky, over-confident boy, at first. James Anest has that pure, rich baritone that defines El Gallo. This tall, lithe young actor, who looks great in Ms. Displaying perfect diction and vocal clarity, Mr. Fussy, meticulous and thrifty, Mr. Seeming to almost float through the air, this young actor ably provides the props and necessary assistance for El Gallo and the other characters. The original production by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, with its intimate, less-is-more style of presentation, is nearly perfect as can be. While this expanded version is interesting, it lacks the intimacy of the version. Conductor Roger L. Sometimes sluggish, the pacing slows this production down to a ponderous two-and-a-half hours. Tickets are available by calling or by going to www. Additional information about this and other area productions can be found by visiting www. Light Opera Works at Cahn Auditorium. Less is Much More | Chicago Theatre Review Dressed in disintegrating long johns, with a crown of string-mop hair, Thomas Bruce, the old actor who plays the Old Actor, will clearly never see 70 again himself. And yet as his character preens over long past, probably shabby stage triumphs, his memory slipping gears, the Old Actor glows with the sort The Fantasticks 30th edition gentle but insatiable passion for the theater that turns sawdust into gold dust. Unlike much of the rest of this production, he feels like the real thing. And, oh, one other thing: Mr. Jones, Mr. Schmidt, Mr. The first critical responses were less than ecstatic for this theatrically self-conscious masquerade, performed in the homemade, confetti-strewn style of traveling players with a penchant for sweet melody and spun-sugar poetry. Audiences were initially sparse. Yep, that was me. You may gag before you continue reading. I was enchanted by Mr. Of course that was around the time I thought Julie Andrews was the most totally brilliant movie star ever. What at 9 seemed oh so scenic inevitably brought out the cynic in this professional critic. The unsmooth course of their love is, now as then, paved and potholed by their conspiring fathers Leo Burmester and Martin Vidnovicthe Old Actor and his sidekick Mr. Bruce and the slapstick-funny Robert R. Moses and Ms. Ford do not avoid. Burmester and Mr. Vidnovic look a little sheepish as the horticulturally addicted fathers, as if they would rather be elsewhere. Fontana has a charmingly The Fantasticks 30th edition spontaneity, though, and he and Ms. Ford sing their sweet songs sweetly, accompanied only by a The Fantasticks 30th edition Dorothy Martin and harp Erin Hill. And Mr. Bruce — or Mr. So in that spirit, let me say that it is refreshing to find, on the edge of the Times Square theater district at Broadway and 50th, to be exacta musical that The Fantasticks 30th edition no artificial amplification and no special effects that exceed the complexity of a cardboard moon. And who knows? At that age, they could do worse. Running time: 2 hours, 5 minutes. Home Page World U. Die Romanticker – Wikipedia It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play The Romancers Les Romanesques by Edmond Rostandconcerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud. The show's original off-Broadway production ran a total of 42 years until and 17, performances, making it the world's longest-running musical. It was awarded Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre in The poetic book and breezy, inventive score, including such familiar songs as " Try to Remember ", helped make the show durable. Many productions followed, as well as television and film versions. The Fantasticks has become a staple of regional, community and high school productions since its premiere, with approximately new productions each year. It is played with a small cast, two- The Fantasticks 30th edition three-person orchestra and minimalist set design. The show was revived off-Broadway from to As ofits original investors had earned times their original investments. The Marc The Fantasticks 30th edition adaptation of The Threepenny OperaThe Fantasticks 30th edition ran for six years, showed that musicals could be profitable off-Broadway The Fantasticks 30th edition a small-scale, small orchestra format. This was confirmed in The Fantasticks 30th edition a revival of Jerome Kern and P. Wodehouse 's Leave It to Jane ran for more than two years. It was set in the American Westand featured a "half-breed Apache " as the show's antagonist. The script was substantially rewritten by Jones and Schmidt, with the character of Mortimer now "not really an Indian" but playing one during the "Rape Ballet" sequence. All but a few songs in the score were also jettisoned, and the staging of the play was changed to a thrust stage. Harvey Schmidt says he wrote it in a single afternoon, after it emerged in almost complete form after a fruitless afternoon attempting to compose other songs. The revamped play appeared on a bill of new one-act plays at Barnard College for one week in August The play is highly stylized and combines old-fashioned showmanship, classic musical theatrecommedia dell'arte and Noh theatrical traditions. The original production was directed by Word Baker and was produced on a very low budget. As for a curtain, he hung various small false curtains across the platform at The Fantasticks 30th edition times during the play. One side was painted bright yellow the sun and the other was black with a crescent of white the moon. The orchestra consists of a piano and sometimes also a harp, with the harpist also sometimes The Fantasticks 30th edition some percussion instruments. The production closed on January 13,after 17, performances. It is the world's longest-running musical and the longest-running uninterrupted show of any kind in the United States. The musical ran at London's Apollo Theatre from September 7,and ran for 44 performances. The company was made up of military personnel. Anthony Fedorov played the role of Matt in Margaret Anne Florence played Luisa in The musical was presented by the Arena Stage in Washington, D. The well-received production replaced the conventional "mysterious bandit" interpretation of El Gallo with a kindly carnival magician character. Washington Post theatre critic Peter Marks wrote, "they have been reconditioned to conceal the telltale signs of age and yield a diversion that feels fresh and alive again". The musical closed on June 26,less than three weeks into its run; it had been booking to September 5. The Fantasticks has been seen in at least 67 countries, and It has been translated into many languages [42]. A non-equity national tour, in a steampunk-inspired version, began at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center on January 17, According to The New The Fantasticks 30th edition Times" The Fantasticks is one of the most widely produced [musicals] in the world, with more than 11, productions, byin The Fantasticks 30th edition, cities and towns in all 50 states, as well as in 67 countries. An abbreviated version of the show was broadcast by the Hallmark Hall of Fame on October 18, The roles of the old actor and Mortimer were cut for time, and some of their lines were assigned to the fathers, who indulged in some "amateur theatrics". A feature film directed by Michael Ritchie was completed in but not released until It was both a critical and box office failure. A mysterious bandit, El Gallo, tells about the kind of September "when love was an ember about to billow" " Try to Remember ". He begins to narrate the plot of the play. 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