Tags: Musical.
The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It tells an allegorical story loosely based on the play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond Rostand concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children Luisa and Matt into falling in love by pretending to feud. The fathers hire traveling actors to stage a mock abduction so that Matt can heroically seem to save Luisa ending the supposed feud.