But the book that George Abbott fashioned from Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, while a perfectly proficient farce mechanism, no longer gleams, and makes the likelihood of a full-scale Broadway revival unlikely. True, one could quibble that, with three good recordings and regular revivals, including one at Goodspeed a few years ago and one at Canada's Stratford Festival that was televised, Syracuse is not exactly the kind of rarity the series was meant to resuscitate. And no question, City Center's Encores! series could not have chosen a better title to bring its season to the perfect spring-like conclusion, nor could they have cast it better. No question, there are few scores more blissful than the one Rodgers and Hart composed for their 1938 hit The Boys From Syracuse.
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