The Boys From Syracuse
The Boys From Syracuse is a musical based on Shakespeare's play, A Comedy of Errors. The musical was written by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart and first produced on Broadway in 1938. As described in The Washington Post review of this production, this "show was Shakespeare Theatre Company’s inaugural attempt at replicating, with an Elizabethan wink, New York’s highly successful and widely imitated Encores! concert series, which regularly blows the dust off vintage (and sometimes not-so-vintage) musicals." Shakespeare Theatre produced five weekend performances of the show. I loved the show, as I love musical theater. The play and the music leave one feeling happy and remind one of a golden age of musical theater in America, led by Richard Rogers, who teamed with Hart and later with Oscar Hammerstein, to write some of the greatest shows in Broadway history.
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