Pasadena Playhouse tweaks 1960s' 'The Fantasticks' for a post-9/11 era

Try to remember a greener "Fantasticks," when props were leaner and sets were matchsticks ...

Ah, well, memory of the original lyrics fades, and it may be hard at first to recognize the no-frills off-Broadway origins of "The Fantasticks" amid its expansive, big-budget revival at the Pasadena Playhouse....