The Fantasticks

Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's metatheatrical fable—in which a group of players stages the tale of young lovers devided by a wall, with echoes of the Rude Mechanicals’ take on Pyramus and Thisby in A Midsummer Night’s Dream—opened Off Broadway in 1960 and went on to run for some 42 years. Second Stage brings it to Broadway for the first time in a version that recasts the plot as a modern gay love story. The imaginative Christopher Gattelli (Schmigadoon!) directs and choreographs the revisal, whose cast is not yet known.