The Fantasticks

Group Rate:
Monday - Thursday evening and Thursday & Saturday matinee
8+ Best Available reduced to £29.50

All rates and seats subject to availability and change.

About The Event
A brand new production of the classic musical, The Fantasticks is coming to London, opening in May 2010 at the Duchess Theatre.

Directed by Amon Miyamoto, a new production of this much-loved musical will invigorate and illuminate the show with fresh visual, emotional and musical energy. Designer Rumi Matsui joins Miyamoto on The Fantasticks following their previous collaboration on the Broadway production of Pacific Overtures for which Matsui’s work was Tony Award nominated. Lighting design will be provided by 2009 Tony Award winner Rick Fisher.

The Fantasticks tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who put up a wall between their houses to ensure that their children fall in love, because they know children always do what their parents forbid. After the children do fall in love, they discover their fathers' plot and each goes off and experience the world. Finally they return to each other and the love they had, having learned from the world to recognize their true feelings. Elements of the musical are drawn from the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, its story winding its way through Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore and Rostand's play. Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s classic score features titles including Much More, I Can See It and the instantly familiar Try To Remember.

The Fantasticks first played in New York nearly fifty years ago and has since become the longest running show of any kind in the United States and the longest running musical in the world. It has played in over 2000 cities and towns in the States, and internationally, it has been staged in 67 countries.

Travel
Nearest Tube: Covent Garden (Piccadilly line)
Nearest Rail: Charing Cross
Take Northern line to Leicester Square. Change to Piccadilly line for Covent Garden.
Parking: NCP Drury Lane. Please note that parking in central London can be difficult and expensive. If possible please use public transport.

Access
Wheelchairs: Steps to all parts of auditorium. Customers who need to remain in their chairs must be carried down 21 steps to the stalls. Transfer seating is available for those able to leave their wheelchairs. Staff are happy to help. Please Contact Us for full information.
Hearing Impaired: Infrared headsets available.

Admittance Policy
Regrettably babies and toddlers will not be admitted to the theatre. Children aged 5 years and over will be admitted and, more specific age limits may apply depending on the production. Children should be able to sit, unaided, in their own seat and be attentive to the performance so as not to distract other paying members of the audience.

Admittance to the auditorium is always at the discretion of theatre management.