Kheliaya is Inspired by the Longest running American Musical The Fantasticks.The Fantasticks, freely adapted from Edmond Rostand's 1894 play Les Romanesques, received its official premiere at the Sullivan Street Playhouse on May 3, 1960. Since that time, it has become the longest-running musical in the world. The Fantasticks ended its off-broadway run 2002.

The Fantasticks has played in every state, in more than 11,103 U.S. productions in over 2,000 cities and towns. It has played at the White House, the Ford Theatre, the Shawnee Mission in Kansas, Yellowstone National Park and in America's more exotic locales from Carefree, Arizona to Mouth of Wilson, Virginia. Internationally, more than 700 productions have been staged in 67 nations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

These include including Canada (200+), Germany and Australia (approx. 50 each). Scandinavia has seen more than 45 productions including at least one each year since 1962, when it won an award there as the year's Outstanding New Theatrical Piece. Japan, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Czechoslovakia, have all seen multiple productions as have such newsworthy locales as Kabul, Afghanistan and Teheran, Iran. Recently, The Fantasticks has also been seen in Dublin, Milan, Budapest, Zimbabwe, India (Khelaiya), Bangkok, and Beijing.