By Tom Jones and Harvey L Schmidt Directed by Brian Deavoll Musical Direction by Eric Cornwall Choreography by Berryl MacLeod Season: 24 September - 11 October 1975 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 realising the truth in El Gallo's words that, "without a hurt, the heart is hollow." Cast: The Mute - Lindsay Simpson The Narrator - Robert Naysmith The Girl - Helen Powell The Boy - Martyn Duffy The Girl's Father - Arthur Chapman The Boy's Father - Peter Brown The Old Actor - Byron Jones The Man Who Dies - Peter Hart |