Boys From Syracuse

Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s 'The Boys from Syracuse' is a brilliant, rhythmically sophisticated 1938 musical comedy masterpiece that holds historic distinction as the very first musical to successfully adapt a play by William Shakespeare (*The Comedy of Errors*). Featuring a witty book by George Abbott, the plot spins a frantic web of ancient farcical complications and mistaken identities around two pairs of identical twin brothers who are separated during a shipwreck and accidentally converge in the same city. Most famously revived in Roundabout Theatre Company’s acclaimed 2002 revival starring Tom Hewitt and Erin Dilly at the American Airlines Theatre, the work celebrates the absolute peak of Rodgers and Hart’s lyrical wit.