The Fantasticks is a musical comedy from 1960. It's about two neighboring fathers who trick their children into falling in love by pretending to feud.
The show's original off-Broadway production ran a total of 42 years (until 2002) and 17,162 performances, making it the world's longest-running musical.
It's typically staged with a very sparse set consisting of a table and ladders to represent the neighboring bedrooms.
The first musical number of the show is "Try to Remember," a song about nostalgia. In the song, the audience is encouraged to imagine what the sparse set suggests.
You can be nostalgic about the play or the song. But it's especially nostalgic because the song and play are themselves an invitation to remember an earlier, simpler time.
What do you notice about the set?
