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Music By Richard Rodgers
Lyrics By Lorenz Hart
Book/Libretto by: George Abbott
Based on: William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
Opened: November 23, 1938
Theatre: Alvin Theatre (New York)
# of Performances: 235
Synopsis
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love
Song List
- Overture
- Prologue
- I Had Twins
- Dear Old Syracuse
- Falling in Love with Love
- The Shortest Day of the Year
- This Can't be Love
- The Ladies Of The Evening
- You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea
- Sing for your Supper
- Oh, Diogenes
- Come With Me
- He and she
- Big Brother
- What can you do with a Man?
- The Greeks Have No Word For It *
- Who Are You?*
- Finale
* These songs were added for the Film Version in 1940
Awards & Nominations
The Film had Academy Award Nominations for best art direction and special effects
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