Love can remain a somewhat shallow thing until people have suffered a little. The fathers of two young lovers, Louisa and Matt, deliberately make things difficult for them in order to bring them closer together, and even arrange a mock abduction which allows the boy to rescue the girl from fake bandits (who are "ham" actors hired for the purpose) from the Spaniard, El Gallo, who is somewhat a personification of Destiny. When the lovers discover the whole thing was contrived, discontent sets in and they have to be really hurt before they can treasure one another.

Performance Schedule

June 2003

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
8	9	10	11	12 8:00 pm	13 8:00 pm	14 8:00 pm
15 5:00 pm	16	17	18	19 8:00 pm	20 8:00 pm	21 8:00 pm

The days in the calendar are color-coded:

White	Plenty of seats were available
Yellow	A popular performance, but seats were available
Red	A very popular show, very few seats were available

Directed by Kathy Ludt, with musical direction by Len Rogach, the cast of The Fantasticks included

El Gallo	Dave Ludt
Luisa	Victoria Rogach
Matt	Nick Adams
Huck	John Bausch
Bellamy	David Kolodziejski
Henry	Ken Gagne
Mortimer	Brennan Clark
The Mute	Anna Cometa

Check out the Fantasticks Gallery.

Thanks to the Worcester Telegram for a review (subscription required) in the 25 June edition.