The Rodgers and Hart musical 'The Boys from Syracuse' is based on which Shakespeare play?
The Boys from Syracuse The Boys from Syracuse 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. The show was the first musical based on a Shakespeare play. "The Comedy of Errors" was itself loosely based on a Roman play, "The Menaechmi, or the Twin Brothers", by Plautus. The play premiered on Broadway in 1938 and Off-Broadway in 1963, with later productions including a West End run in 1963 and
Rodgers and Hart "Dancing on the Ceiling", "Lover", "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", "Mimi", and "Have You Met Miss Jones?", Rodgers and Hart Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895–1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were introduced in 1919, when both attended Columbia University, when asked to write an amateur club show. After writing together for several years, they produced their first successful Broadway musical, "The Garrick Gaieties", in 1925, which introduced their