When The Fantasticks was on its way to becoming a solid Off Broadway hit, composers Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt were dangled a carrot of another kind: Broadway. N. Richard Nash wanted to do a musical adaptation of his romantic comedy The Rainmaker, about a lonely farm girl reaching spinsterhood and yearning for love - which had been a 1952 TV special, a 1954 Broadway play starring Geraldine Page and Darr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:59AM on March 5, 2018