The Boys from Syracuse
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The Boys from Syracuse is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, based on William Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors, as adapted by librettist George Abbott. The score includes swing and other contemporary rhythms of the 1930s.
- Opened
- 1938
- Performances
- 235
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Early
Productions3 on Broadway
| 1938 | Alvin Theatre Original. November 23, 1938 · George Abbott | 235 performances |
| 1963 | Transfer Theatre unknown. November 7, 1963 | |
| 2002 | American Airlines Theatre Revival. August 18, 2002 · Scott Ellis | 73 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 5 albums held
Licensing 3 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| US | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
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50 passages naming The Boys from Syracuse, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
For other musicals based on Shakespeare, see The Boys from Syracuse, page 107. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p213
Balanchine, George Babes in Arms Boys from Syracuse, The Cabin in the Sky I Married an Angel Louisiana Purchase Merry Widow, The On Your Toes Song of Norway Where’s Charley? Ziegfeld Follies book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387
In 1997 the three "Encores!" musicals were Sweet-Adeline, the 1929 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, a mildly interesting antique; Promises, Promises, the 1968 musical by Neil Simon, Burt Bacharach, and Hal David, which fared better with Martin Short and Christine Baranski; and Rodgers and Hart's 1937 tr… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p321
The Boys from Syracuse was the first musical to be adapted from a play by William Shakespeare. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p26
The Alvin next hosted Rodgers and Hart’s I’d Rather Be Right (11/2/37; 289 performances). GEORGE M. CoHAN made his next-to-last Broadway appearance in this production as Franklin D. Roosevelt, president at the time. The libretto by KAUFMAN AND Harr allowed for some gentle ribbing of the current administration as well a… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p394
r SEEMS INCONCEIVABLE Now, BUT The Boys from Syracuse was the first musical comedy to be based on a work of Shakespeare. And it only took seventy years from the origins of musical theatre for someone to come up with the idea! book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p42
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