Can anyone tell me about the musical? I just got the audition sheet for it and I have no idea what it's about. All I know is that it is a musical. I am auditioning with song and dance on the 15th.
2006-12-05 15:03:03 · 3 answers · asked by ♫Magali♫ 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
First Act: Young lovers go behind their fathers' backs to fall in love. They find the hidden dangerous to be romantic and exciting. The fathers are really rooting for them to fall in love - but know if they say they approve, the kids will not love each other, so they pretend to hate each other, even though they're best friends. To make things more romantic, they hire a travelling troup to kidnap the young girl so that the boy will have to rescue her in the moonlight. It ends happily.
Second Act: In the daylight. Everything comes out - they find each other ridiculous now that they realize their fathers tricked them. They both have adventures in the 'real' world and get hurt, before coming back together at the end, realizing they love each other.
It's corny, saccharine, overly-sweet, obvious, predictable - and absolutely charming - with a really tough to sing...but gorgeous to listen to!...score.
Good luck!
2006-12-06 08:51:41 · answer #1 · answered by tristanrobin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's kind of like a twist on the classic of Romeo & Juliet. Two young teens that fall in love but are divided by a wall and go visit each other at the wall regularly, being careful not to be caught by their respective parents.
I only read about half of the script, so my knowledge on this musical is limited.
I also found this:
The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical comedy with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It is loosely based on the story "The Romancers" ("Les Romanesques") by Edmond Rostand [1]. The play's first iteration in 1956 was as "Joy Comes to Deadhorse" at the University of New Mexico; after substantial rewriting it appeared on a bill of new one-act plays at Barnard College in August, 1959.
It premiered in the Sullivan Street Playhouse, a small New York City off-Broadway theater, on May 3, 1960, with Jerry Orbach in the role of the narrator. The spare set and semicircular stage made the show very intimate and immediate for theatregoers. The play is highly stylized, and combines aspects of old-fashioned '40s Broadway styles with a more modernist, "fantastical" style. Accompaniment is by a piano and harp, and a mime character represents various set pieces and silent characters, such as the wall between the two houses.
On July 24th, 1996, the show reached its astounding 15,000 performance.
The show closed on January 13, 2002 after 17,162 performances. It is the world's longest-running musical, and the longest-running, uninterrupted show of any kind in the United States. An unsuccessful film of the musical was released in 2000.
An off-Broadway revival of The Fantasticks opened in New York City on August 17, 2006.[2]
Read more about it by clicking on this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastiks
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Hope I helped!!!
2006-12-05 15:07:31 · answer #2 · answered by Barb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you should do some research.
2006-12-05 15:26:34 · answer #3 · answered by hannahbash 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋