Midsummer night's musicals Shows old and new are summer must-sees The show contains enough standards to sustain several Broadway musicals ("Sing for Your Supper," "Falling in Love with Love," "This Can't Be Love" and "What Can You Do With a Man?" among them). And its storyline is the work of that guy named William Shakespeare (though only a single line of the original made it into the script). Yet for some reason, "The Boys from Syracuse" -- with its delicious score by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart -- has received precious few revivals since its Broadway debut in 1938. That is about to change. Beginning Aug. 7, Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook presents director-choreographer David H. Bell's new adaptation of the show. The first Broadway musical to be based on a play by Shakespeare (its source was "The Comedy of Errors," that...
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