The Fantasticks is the world's longest running musical,
running for over 52 years in Manhattan. Loosely based on
the French play, Les Romanesques by Edmond Rostand,
it is a funny and romantic musical about a boy, a girl, two
fathers and a wall. The narrator, El Gallo, asks the audi-
ence 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 realizing the truth in El Gallo's words that "without a
hurt, the heart is hollow".

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