Customer Reviews for Twelfth Night
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Overall, the Caribbean theme worked but there was no understandable imperative for making that change. A bit of a mystery to many of us in the audience . Also why contemporary music didn’t then follow the calypso theme like no Woman O Cry. Instead the stage seemed to be a showcase for great voices but the songs had no rhyme or reason for being in the show other than being about love. More Marley or Ska rather than the dongs that we’re used would have worked better. All of the acting and singing were excellent but they detracted from the beauty of the language and the messages embedded in it about live and appearances. Overall, great performers for broadway but a bit of an overreach for contemporizing Shakespeare through the venue and adding music. Like the film Skakesoeare in Love. Maybe this is what opera and Shakespeare theaters need to do to attract youn theater goers. I prefer more traditional productions. But all the performances were superb at what they were asked to do.