The Boys from Syracuse
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 18, 2002
Closed Oct 20, 2002
Opened Aug 18, 2002
Closed Oct 20, 2002
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http://www.roundabouttheatre.org
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Scott Ellis directs the Broadway revival of the classic Rodgers and Hart musical, The Boys from Syracuse, featuring an updated book by Nicky Silver. Based on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, this musical comedy tells the tale of two sets of identical twins and the women who can't tell them apart. Songs include "Falling in Love with Love," "The Shortest Day of the Year," and "You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea."
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The purists can start their sniping. The first thing to be said about the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of The Boys from Syracuse is that it is not The Boys from Syracuse. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's 1938 musical-comedy version of The Comedy of Errors has been gut-renovated. A new Nicky Silver book replaces the perfectly fine one by George Abbott. Meanwhile, the score has been seriously monkeyed with -- and if there was ever a score that didn't need fixing, this is it. The production looks wrong, frequently sounds wrong, and is unevenly cast. So why did I have such a good time?
Because, bottom line, it's still Rodgers and Hart, and it's still musical comedy in its purest, most [...]