Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare in the Park)
Opening Night: August 12, 2013
Closing: August 18, 2013
Theater: Delacorte Theatre
Romance, revelry and enchanting music ignite in this contemporary yet lovingly faithful musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy. The King and his best buds decide at their five-year college reunion to swear off the joys of women. But when four cute, clever girls from their past show up, they’re forced to reconsider all of that nonsense! Smart, sexy, outrageous, and irreverent, LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST is a madcap celebration of true love and coming of age.
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August 12, 2013
The point appears to be that love makes fools of everyone, which is also the point — or a point — of the Shakespeare play that inspired this woozy frolic. But comedy is funniest, and truest, when people make fools of themselves in ways peculiar to their characters. In this production, there is seldom a real connection between the singers and their songs. It’s as if the musical numbers, which cover a gamut of pastiche styles, had been assigned at random from a mixtape playlist.
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