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The Fantasticks (1995) More at IMDbPro »

• The movie was filmed in 1995, and shelved for five years. The released version was re-edited by Francis Ford Coppola with the consent of director Michael Ritchie.
  
  
• The actors sing live during the shots, while listening to the music on hidden earphones.
  
  
• Paramount Pictures owned the rights to this property in the late 1960s. Originally Gower Champion was set to direct with Howard W. Koch producing. During the summer of 1972 Paramount paid for a trip to Italy by Champion and songwriters Schmidt & Jones to scout locations. By January 1973 the film had been called off.
  
  
• "El Gallo" is Spanish for "The Rooster"
  
  

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