A boy, a girl, and a wall. These main characters are the heart of the classic love story, The Fantasticks, playing at New York's Snapple Theater Center. Although it's a classic, The Fantasticks keeps twists and tricks up its sleeve that keep the romance intriguing.

The boy's father, Hucklebee (George Lee Andrews), and the girl's father (Joseph Delleger), friends and neighbors, share a front yard until they hatch a plan for their children to fall madly in love. How? By fabricating a fight and building a wall — charmfully played (yes, the wall is quite the character, even without dialogue) by Pierce Cravens — to divide their property so the boy, Matt (Jim Schubin), and the girl, Luisa (Cathryn Salamone), will endure a serious case of "absence makes the heart grow fonder" syndrome and tumble headfirst into romance. The best part? It works!

Matt and Luisa, with stealth and scheming, avert their fathers, who they believe would be very angry about their love, and meet at the wall each day and night to whisper sweet nothings back and forth. Schubin and Salamone, both beaming with wide-eyed optimism only found in love's honeymoon phase, swing through tunes like "Metaphor" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain."

When the two young lovers begin to talk of marriage, the fathers agree it’s time to end the supposed feud, but with spectacle and panache! Cue El Gallo (Jeremiah James), a stud of a dramatic villain who strikes a deal with the fathers to abduct Luisa so that Matt may save her, end the neighbors’ spat, and leave everyone living happily ever after. But this is theater, and of course, things are never as they seem. 

As the abduction unfolds with the help of two hilarious actors deep in their golden years (MacIntyre Dixon and Michael Nostrand), the fathers’ plot is revealed and, damaged by the news, Matt and Luisa become disillusioned with the world — and each other. The two set out separately into reality, becoming more keenly aware of the harsh world outside of their own, and “Try to Remember” not what kept them apart, but the love that brought them together.

The Fantasticks is playing at the Snapple Theater Center, 210 W. 50th St. (Broadway). For tickets and more information, call 212-921-7862 or visit fantasticksonbroadway.com.