Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Sometimes a Song

"Try to Remember"

From The Fantastix

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Debra Esolen
Sep 14, 2024
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Today’s Sometimes a Song comes from the longest-running musical in the entire world, a low-budget off-Broadway production called “The Fantasticks.” The play ran without a pause for forty-two years, opening in May of 1960 and closing in January of 2002. As if that “first run” were not enough, the play was revived in 2006 and ran for an additional eleve…

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