Radish" – Bellomy, Hucklebee "Round and Round" – El Gallo, Luisa, Company "They Were You" – Matt, Luisa "Try to Remember" (reprise) – El Gallo Controversy After the initial success of the musical, The Fantasticks came under criticism for the repeated use of the word "rape" in the scene preceding the song "It Depends on What You Pay", and in the lyrics of the song. In the original production, when El Gallo offers to stage the phony kidnapping of Luisa, he refers to the proposed event as a "rape", although he makes it clear that he uses the word only in its traditional literary sense of "abduction", explaining that many classical works, including Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock, use the word in this sense. (See raptio and bride kidnapping.) In his song "It Depends on What You Pay" he describes different kidnapping scenarios, some comic or outlandish, that he classifies as the "Venetian rape", the "Gothic rape", the "Drunken rape", etc. However, as the public issues of rape and sexual assault became a controversial subject during the play's long run, some audience members became offended by the repeated use of the word.Proulx, Lisa. "Fantasticks: Still controversial", The Gazette, October 4, 2007, accessed July 18, 2014 To deal with changing audience perceptions, the book is usually edited to replace the word "rape" with alternatives such as "abduction" and the similar-sounding "raid". In 1990, Jones and Schmidt wrote an optional replacement piece called "Abductions", which uses the music of the "Rape Ballet", although this song did not replace "It Depends on What You Pay" at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, where, with the edits made in the book, audiences accepted the song. An edited version of "It Depends on What You Pay" is used in the long-running Jerry Orbach Theater version of the show. MTI (Music Theater International), which licenses the show, offers "Abductions" as an alternative choice. Notes References Farber, Donald C. and Viagas, Robert. The Amazing Story of 'The Fantasticks': America's Longest-Running Play, Hal Leonard Corporation, 2005, Jones, Tom with Schmidt, Harvey. The Fantasticks. New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1990. Schmidt, Harvey. Fantasticks, Hal Leonard Corporation, 1992, Weaver, Jace. Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. External links Official website of the original production of The FantasticksThe Fantasticks at the Guide to Musical Theatre "The Fantastick Career of Jones &