“Try To Remember” a time when this romantic charmer wasn’t enchanting audiences around the world. The Fantasticks is the longest-running musical in the world and with good reason: at the heart of its breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication is a purity and simplicity that transcends cultural barriers. The result is a timeless fable of love that manages to be nostalgic and universal at the same time.
The Fantasticks is a funny and romantic musical about a boy, a girl, and their two fathers who try to keep them apart. The narrator, El Gallo, asks the audience to use their imagination and follow him into a world of moonlight and magic. The boy and the girl fall in love, grow apart and finally find their way back to each other after realizing the truth in El Gallo’s words that, “without a hurt, the heart is hollow.”
This production is produced in honor of Russ Johnson, a tremendous Drama Teacher that taught us to love and live… and do a little theatre (in a little theatre!) too!
Check out this sweet article in the Deseret News! (Thank you, Deseret News!) #Love4Russ
The Fantasticks performed March 16-23, 2019
The Fantasticks
Production Team
- Director/ChoreographerToni Butler
- Musical DirectorLogan Bingham
- PianoMichelle Willis
- Technical Director/Crew AdvisorToni Butler
- ELA CREWZoe Paraskeva, Elliot Berry, Emily Preece
- Art DirectorLogan Bingham
- Fight CaptainTrenton Conover
Cast List
- El GalloGeoff Beckstrand
- The MuteLydia Butler
- LuisaMaggie Scott
- MattPreston Rowland
- BellomyNed Searle
- HucklebeeJohn Holmgren
- HenryDallin Remund
- MortimorTanner McDaniel