The Fantasticks (2015)

The loving young couple of Matt (actor, Pedar Benson Bate) and Luisa (actor, Clare Howes Eisentrout) are showered by The Mute’s (actor, Meredith Lark, above) magical rain in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

A pair of fathers, Bellomy (actor, Justin Ness, left) and Hucklebee (actor, Lynn Robert Berg, right), conspire to make a love connection between their daughter and son respectively in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

Henry (actor, M.A. Taylor, left), El Gallo (actor, Michael Padgett, center) and Mortimer (actor, Jeffrey C. Hawkins, right) share a comic moment in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

A pair of fathers, Bellomy (actor, Justin Ness, left) and Hucklebee (actor, Lynn Robert Berg, right), conspire to make a love connection between their daughter and son respectively in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

Matt (actor, Pedar Benson Bate) and Luisa (actor, Clare Howes Eisentrout) comprise “the perfect couple” in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

El Gallo (above, Michael Padgett) and Luisa (actor, Clare Howes Eisentrout) share the spotlight in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

Matt (actor, Pedar Benson Bate) and Luisa (actor, Clare Howes Eisentrout) make a perfect pair in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

Mortimer (actor, Jeffrey C. Hawkins, left) and Henry (actor, M.A. Taylor, right) share a comic moment in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

El Gallo (above, Michael Padgett) and Luisa (actor, Clare Howes Eisentrout) share the spotlight in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

El Gallo (above, Michael Padgett) and Luisa (actor, Clare Howes Eisentrout) share the spotlight in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

El Gallo (above, Michael Padgett) and Luisa (actor, Clare Howes Eisentrout) share a tender moment in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

El Gallo (above, Michael Padgett, center) and The Mute (actor, Meredith Lark, right) make a magical team in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

An exceptional ensemble comprised of (from left to right) Michael Padgett, Justin Ness, Clare Howes Eisentrout, Pedar Benson Bate, Lynn Robert Berg and Meredith Lark shares the spotlight expertly accompanied by Musical Director Matthew Webb (back left) and Assistant Musical Director Nick Wilders (back right) in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

An exceptional ensemble comprised of (from left to right) Michael Padgett, Lynn Robert Berg, Pedar Benson Bate, Clare Howes Eisentrout, Justin Ness and Meredith Lark shares the spotlight expertly accompanied by Musical Director Matthew Webb (back left) and Assistant Musical Director Nick Wilders (back right) in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)

Luisa (actor, Clare Howes Eisentrout) is “abducted” by a comically costumed Mortimer (actor, Jeffrey C. Hawkins, right) as Henry (actor, M.A. Taylor, left) and Matt (actor, Pedar Benson Bate, right) observe in horror in Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s production of The Fantasticks at Sand Harbor State Park which runs through August 23. (Photo by Joy Strotz)