Talk:The Fantasticks
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"It Depends on What You Pay" was always part of the show at Sullivan Street. Also, I noted that the book was changed to tone down the use of the "R" word. I saw the show maybe a dozen times over maybe two decades, and I never found the audience having a serious problem once El Gallo quickly explained about "literary rape". I'll take your word for it that there was a more serious problem with high school productions, but I think probably that directors are being unnecessarily concerned. The movie is bad. El Gallo is miscast, and the movie is just badly directed.
- In a local theater production here, El Gallo once forgot to state the explanation that "i mean the attempted rape" or something along those lines. The audience was stone silent after the rape song, since they now thought he really meant rape. That one line is very vital. --Golbez 22:02, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
According to Tom Jones in "The Fantasticks: The Thirtieth Anniversary Edition", a new song was written for the tour that began in Spring 1990. Meant to replace "It Depends On What You Pay," "Abductions (And So Forth)" was made available through MTI "so that in the future anyone doing the show will have an alternate choice in case they are offended by the word rape." 69.3.234.194 02:46, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Impact of 9/11 WTC attacks
I seem to recall hearing a story that the first time they tried to perform this show on Broadway after the 9/11 attacks, the performers couldn't get through the first song, due to the opening lyrics "Try to remember/the kind of September". Does anyone know more about this incident? Might be worthy of a brief mention on the page. --Lurlock 15:25, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
