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The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the 1894 play The Romancers ( Les Romanesques ) by Edmond Rostand , concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud.
"Try to Remember" is a song about nostalgia [1] from the musical comedy play The Fantasticks (1960). It is the first song performed in the show, encouraging the audience to imagine what the sparse set suggests. The words were written by the American lyricist Tom Jones while Harvey Schmidt composed the music.
The song was first sung by Rita Gardner and Kenneth Nelson in the original Off Broadway production of The Fantasticks.Other performers from the long-running Off-Broadway production of the show to sing the song include Kristin Chenoweth, American Idol finalist Anthony Fedorov and winner of the thirteenth season of The Amazing Race, Nick Spangler.
Tom Jones, the lyricist, director and writer of “The Fantasticks,” the longest-running musical in history, has died. Jones died Friday at his home in Sharon, Connecticut, according to Dan ...
Tom Jones, who wrote the book and lyrics for the longest-running musical “The Fantasticks,” died Friday at his home in Sharon, Conn. He was 95. Jones’ son Michael told The New York Times the ...
His best-known work is The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway from 1960 until 2002, and the hit song from the same, "Try to Remember". Other songs from The Fantasticks include "Soon It's Gonna Rain", "Much More", and "I Can See It". He also wrote the screenplay for the 1995 feature-film adaptation. [2]
Tom Jones -- the lyricist, director and writer of the longest-running musical of all time, The Fantasticks -- has died. He was 95. Jones died Friday at his home in Sharon, Connecticut. His son ...
The Fantasticks is a 2000 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie (his final film to be released before his death the following year). The screenplay by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt is based on their record-breaking off-Broadway production of the same name, which ran for 17,162 performances (and was subsequently revived off-Broadway).