It's Thursday, and that means theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck is here with her weekly review of the region's thespian offerings. Today, she joins guest host and Midday senior producer Rob Sivak with a review of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's revival of the 1960 classic musical, The Fantasticks.
The longest-running musical in Broadway history -- and still a perennial favorite of theater companies across the country and around the world -- has a simple, Shakespeare-inspired storyline, at whose heart is a 19 year-old boy and the 16 year-old girl next door. Their controlling fathers scheme to lead the unwitting pair into romance, but the matchmaking goes terribly wrong. The lyrical and sentimental musical, with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, is filled with memorable songs. The Fantasticks is Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's first musical. Directed by Curt L. Tofteland.
The Fantasticks continues at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company through Sunday, May 21st.
