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The Comedy of Errors
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Comedy of Errors: Performances, Recordings & Adaptations
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There's an audio performance on Audible:http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/Th...
Not sure how good it is though. I'll probably give it a listen after reading.
The Broadway musical, "The Boys from Syracuse" is an adaptation by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart. I've never seen it but I know the soundtrack a bit. Evidently there's a 1940 film of the musical but I've never seen it.There have also been a couple of "circus" productions. I wonder if any are on Youtube?
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I've tried to track down a copy of the film musical but I haven't yet. Just hoping to rent or stream and not buy :-)
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It was pretty funny. It kept the same theme and the general structure as the play, but added a country mouse/city mouse element.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZ43...
Kevin wrote: "There's an audio performance on Audible:http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/Th...
Not sure how good it is thoug..."
I have the Arkangel CD and can say it's good, if not superb. David Tennant is probably the best actor on the recording, but at the moment I can't recall which part he plays.
The BBC version from 1983 with Roger Daltrey, Michael Kitchen, Cyril Cusack, Charles Gray, and Nicolas Chagrin. Six segments. This is the link to the first part.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x43s...
I was able to find the BBC DVD with Roger Daltrey that Haaze posted about at my local library. I watched it reading along with No Fear Shakespeare since there were no subtitles on the DVD. I recommend it for the visuals - will help make sense of which twin is talking and why everyone is so confused.
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It's very funny so far. They added a lot of slapstick humor. Watching the performance made the play *waaayyy* funnier than just reading it on the page did.
It was adapted in 1988 into the film 'Big Business,' starring Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler. I ordered via Netflix DVD, and it just arrived - I hope to watch it soon!