"The Fantasticks" is so Fantastic!

I've already heard a lot of good feedbacks from this musical play. Luckily, while I was browsing the TicketWorld homepage I saw that "The Fantasticks" musical play will going to have a repeat Monday which is November 16 at Repertory Philippines in Greenbelt. I made a reservation right away even though I am not fully sure if I could I attend to it cause I got work that time. Schedule conflict again.

As the day itself goes on and it's Monday, I was totally excited to watch. Yeah, I'm going to watch it all alone. Weird?! My friends got work this day and I know everyone will be busy cause it is the start of the week. I went there 30 minutes earlier. Students were lined-up. They came from St. Paul College and St. Scholastica. I went there wearing a blue green dress. Cool! I don't usually wear dress but I've tried it. So far I love it. The entire auditorium was jam packed with students. I sat at I/8. The seat I chose was perfect. I could see the entire stage. It was also a bit cold inside. Then the play started. It was PJ Valerio who was the lead actor and the girl, she's very unknown to me but she's definitely good and her voice was marvelous. It was Julia Abueva who played the original role but she's in Singapore that time for the APEC Summit. Well, the other girl who replaced her role also performed well. The story was good. The actors were great. It was indeed a lovestory filled with fun and intimate moments. I truly enjoyed it. Fantastic!

Here are additional information about the play. It is pretty interesting.

The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, is a captivating and simple romantic comedy about a boy, a girl, two fathers and a wall. The audience uses its imagination to follow El Gallo as he creates a world of moonlight and magic, and then pain and disillusionment, until the boy and girl find their way back to one other. In a clever reverse of the Romeo and Juliet story, two fathers put up a wall between their houses to ensure that their children fall in love, because they know that children always do what their parents forbid. After the children do fall in love, they discover their fathers' plot and they each go off and experience things in the world. They return to each other and the love they had, having learned from the world, bringing to life a funny and quite touching story of innocence, and of knowledge.

Repertory Philippines’ The Fantasticks stars teenage sensation Julia Abueva as Louisa, and teen heartthrob PJ Valerio as Matt. Completing the cast is a respectable list of theater veterans. Jake Macapagal stars as El Gallo. The Fathers, Bellomy and Hucklebee are played by Dido de la Paz and Jaime del Mundo. Miguel Faustman reprises his role as Henry, the old actor and relative newcomer to the stage but already making waves is Red Concepcion as Mortimer.