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The Off-Broadway show The Fantasticks premiered, eventually becoming the world's longest-running musical, with 17,162 performances across 42 years.
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Off-Broadway
Type of theatre in New York City
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The Fantasticks
Musical by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones
The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and book and lyrics by Tom Jones. It tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the 1894 play The Romancers by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)