Original Off-Broadway Cast: The Fantasticks, CD

"Try To Remember" a time when this romantic charmer wasn't enchanting audiences around the world. The Fantasticks is the longest-running musical in the world and with good reason: at the heart of its breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication is a purity and simplicity that transcends cultural barriers. The result is a timeless fable of love that manages to be nostalgic and universal at the same time.

The Fantasticks is a funny and romantic musical about a boy, a girl, and their two fathers who try to keep them apart. The narrator, El Gallo, asks the audience 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."

TRACK LISTING

Overture
Orchestra
Try To Remember
Jerry Orbach
Much More
Rita Gardner
Metaphor
Kenneth Nelson, Rita Gardner
Never Say No
William Larsen, Hugh Thomas
It Depends On What You Pay
Jerry Orbach, William Larsen, Hugh Thomas
You Wonder How These Things Begin
Jerry Orbach
Soon It's Gonna Rain
Kenneth Nelson, Rita Gardner
The Rape Ballet | Happy Ending
Hugh Thomas, William Larsen, Rita Gardner, Kenneth Nelson
This Plum Is Too Ripe
Rita Gardner, Kenneth Nelson, William Larsen, Hugh Thomas
I Can See It
Kenneth Nelson, Jerry Orbach
Plant A Radish
William Larsen, Hugh Thomas
Round And Round
Jerry Orbach, Rita Gardner and Company
There Is A Curious Paradox
Jerry Orbach
They Were You
Kenneth Nelson, Rita Gardner
Try To Remember (Reprise)
Jerry Orbach, Company
Note: USA release of this title