Illyria
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 12, 2002
Closed Apr 28, 2002
Opened Apr 12, 2002
Closed Apr 28, 2002
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http://www.pcmills.net or www.prospecttheater.org
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
?You don't know the name yet, but Peter Mills could win this year's Stephen Sondheim Successor Award in a walk." -The Village Voice
Following Prospect Theater Company's highly successful production of Twelfth Night in Central Park, resident writer Peter Mills and director Cara Reichel have adapted Shakespeare's comic masterpiece into an original musical, where mistaken identity and the follies of young love reign supreme.
There are Saturday matinees on April 20 and 27 at 2:00pm. There is an additional performance on Tuesday, April 23 at 8:00pm.
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It must take a lot of nerve to musicalize a play by Shakespeare. The primary conceit of musical theater is that when characters reach a point where they can no longer express their feelings in words, they sing. But Shakespeare, the most poetic and inherently musical of all English-language playwrights, already sings. How can a songwriter possibly use Shakespeare's words as the takeoff point for his own music? Astonishingly, Peter Mills accomplishes this with Illyria, his new musical adaptation of Twelfth Night.
It isn't that Mills, a recent recipient of the Jonathan Larson Grant, is so brilliant a songwriter than he manages to one-up the Bard. His music, haunting and pleasant (and lu[...]